However, officials agreed that criminal minds will figure out a way to do this. One official said it is already common to find a family that will go into a store and the parents will order each of the children to buy as many boxes of cold medicine as possible. Each child will go through a different checkout line while the parents wait outside for them. Parents there were urged to have an open relationship with their children and talk to them openly about drug use. We know it s bad, we know it s depressing, said one mother who admitted her child is addicted to methamphetamine and is a senior at Cabot High School.
Parents have to communicate with each other.
They need to call one another and share information. We were never meant to be detectives concerning our own children, but that is exactly what we are going to have to become. Local officials and many parents at the meeting praised the Cabot school system for their support and recognition of the drug problem. A few years ago I think that most of the officials would have denied there was a problem and tried to hide everything away, one mother told the Cabot Star-Herald. But today it seems they are more open to the problem and admitting that we have to do something.