Are you doing everything you can to protect your children from drug and alcohol abuse?

You are vigilant to know the kids your kids are friends with and where there are at all times. You have talked to them about the dangers of alcohol and drugs, but have you really done everything?

In an article published September 8, 2009 on the website Join Together, a survey showed that “23 percent of teens say they can get marijuana within an hour and that prescription drugs are easier to obtain than beer—findings echoed in stories from young drug users themselves.” Another student from a suburb in Washington said she had no problems finding drugs at a young age. “Every time I went to someone’s house, the first thing I said was I had to go to the bathroom and I went to the bathroom cabinets and there would always be something in there. Everywhere you went somebody had a parent who had something.”

Ok, so that’s Washington. That kind of thing doesn’t happen here. I know we’d all like to believe that but the truth is that Hendricks County’s statistics on prescription and over the counter medicine abuse is twice the Indiana State average. So, what can we do? Hendricks County Substance Abuse Task Force has partnered with Hendricks County Solid Waste Management and Hendricks Regional Health to provide bags that can be picked up at the Plainfield Chamber of Commerce Office to put your unused and outdated medicines in and return them to the drop off sites listed on the printed material in the bags. It will also list the locations and times of the drop off sites.
So, what would a teenager find in your house to use for their next high?

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