When a person starts using illegal drugs their personality changes and sometimes they will even steal from their own family. Drugs not only destroy the person using them but often destroy a whole family, he said. Everyone has somebody who loves them and nobody wants to see their child destroyed by drugs. Hopefully, by cracking down on drugs fewer children will have crack and marijuana available for them to try. The community has to get rid of the sellers to try to protect children from ever being offered the drug, said the sheriff.
Nobody starts out wanting to be a drug addict.
Everyone thinks they can stop - until it is too late. Sometimes, people who cannot help themselves need someone else to step in and help them. He said patrols will be beefed up in problem areas of the county.