Drugs - In General
- Jul 29
- 2009
Editor’s Web Note: Today’s column is dedicated to the memory of Zachary Clark Mathews. May his life serve as a reminder NEVER to use heroin. —Lauren
DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: I am writing to “Desperate in Salinas” (JUL 15), the girl who was hiding her heroin-addicted boyfriend in her parent’s basement. I, too, was deeply in love with a beautiful soul addicted to heroin, and I guarantee if you don’t get help, he will take you into a pit of…
- Jul 15
- 2009
Editor’s Web Note: Drug rehabilitation experts are warning about a major heroin-addiction epidemic in this country in the next few years. Actually, it’s already begun. The current trend on high school and college campuses of smoking “tar” in the end of a cigarette is treacherous enough for an “invincible” teen to “try out”, but combined with most teens’ familiarity with the feeling of opiates via prescription drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Codeine and Percoset, we have disaster in progress. As today’s column shows, parents can be slow on the uptake. — Lauren
DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: I’ve been hiding my boyfriend in my basement bedroom because his parents kicked him out. What nobody knows is that he is addicted to heroin. We both began smoking it in our cigarettes, or sometimes snorting it, and now he has starting shooting it. Please help. I don’t…
- Apr 22
- 2009
DEAR STRAIGHT TALK: I read that you support marijuana legalization (MAR 25) and was surprised that someone as educated as you is not aware of the dangers of this drug. I have never used the drug, but it is a killer. The idea that it doesn’t lead to worse addiction is not true. There are…
- Feb 27
- 2008
Dear Straight Talk: Regarding the recent columns on drugs and sex, I have to say that parents set their kids up to lie to them. Most parents are so stressed about having perfect kids that if their kids do any experimenting they reject them. Parents have no clue how prevalent weed, alcohol,…
- Nov 30
- 2005
Dear Straight Talk: I’m 17 and I don’t drink or do drugs and I am amazed at all the teens (and adults) that do. I can’t figure out the attraction and am wondering if anyone else has.—Drug-free
Dear Drug-free: There’s a small but growing “straight edge” movement of drug-and-alcohol-free…
- Oct 12
- 2005
Dear Straight Talk: After reading the recent columns on the choices teens face around drugs and sex, I decided to write.
The thing to realize is that by the time your teens are facing these decisions, it’s out of your hands as a parent. You have to set influences early in life.
I raised…
