Drug Abuse Warning Network, which is a Public Health Surveillance System, indicates that Emergency Department episodes in drug-abuse have more than doubled in recent years according to surveys taken from 21 Metropolitan Cities in U.S. However, amongst youth ages 12 to 17, drug-related episodes have alarmingly quadrupled! Who is to blame? Is your child’s destiny a product of chance or a culmination of parental care?

Although some of us may not hear or witness the alarming increase in the intake of drugs, the dangerous and drastic effects are self-evident. Intense suffering and agonizing deaths, suicides, murders and thefts, which are on the increase in public places like the Malls or School Campuses, primarily stem from habitual drug addiction. Habitual drug-takers’ first and last thought is: how to get the next dose. The drug-taker lives in constant dread of suffering should he or she fail to secure it. This haunting dread drives the drug-taker to use any means no matter how sinister or violent – to attain this goal.

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