The booklet, designed for parents, was to have been mailed to than a million households in July as part of the Government's anti- drug campaign, but was withdrawn because it was not tough enough. Deep in their ivory towers, their stance and statements cut deeply. The policy they promote exacerbates the problem of drug use and abuse, and plays a huge part in fuelling the crime and health crisis associated with heroin. As a parent, there is only one real question to answer if your child is using heroin. It is easy to answer even when the circumstances are often so very hard.
Life wins always even when the desperation is extreme.
After all, you can't rehabilitate a dead addict. This is a choice I do not have any more my daughter, Mel, died from a heroin overdose in March last year. She would have been 23 in June this year. She was an extraordinary young woman who tried so hard to stay alive, but there was just too much against her. It's hard to be angry because it's self destructive and will achieve very little.