Parents, Where Are the Kids?
This is n warning by Dr George S Demon. pi evident of the
National Kducation Piogram, Seaicy, \rk . to al! patents who think
d ugs can’t happen to them
A local TV station in L.ltle
Rock opens its 10 00 p m news
program each evening with a
challenging q icsticn to pa ents
viewing it. “Do vou know where
your children are?”
The implied question is “Do
you know what your children are
doing?” In the American of to
day this is the $64 question The
impulse of all parents is to say,
Yes,
The tragic tact is, piobably
half the parents of teen - a-’e and
college - age youngsters are un
able to answer or cannot give a
true answer to the implied ques
tion.
The other night wc watched
and listened as a tall, skinnv 17-
year-old youth, his black hair
flopped down over his foiehead
in the “Mod” sheepdog manner,
stood before an audience of 500
(PTA parents at a school in No; th
Little Rock (Arkansas).
“Eight months ago,’’ he said,
“if my father had been told that
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I was icgulaily iwn* LSD, lie
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Are You Mistaken?
He showed the audience a veiy
small poicelain pipe He asked
the motheis and fathers of school
-age youngsters “Have you got
a diug pioblem in your family 7
Hold up your hands, please ” Not
a hand showed among the 500
parents
The boy shook his head “Un
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tury night, aie pume taigcls of
the ding avalanche if thev me
not alieady hooked 1 No family is
immune "
He estimates that 63 r r of the
youth population is experiment
ing with Maiijuana or othci
di ugs.
“Bart,” as he was introduced
by Narcotics Agent Tom Davis of
the Pulaski Countv (Greater Lit
tle Rock) Sheriff’s Office, had
been apprehended in the midst
of the central flow of a far-reach
ing drug traffic which, in 1969,
made Little Rock a “Midway”
point in the nation. He was
“pushing” (selling drugs) to fi
nance his own expanding ding
“needs”
Sheriff Monroe Love gave the
bright and smceie boy a choice
when he was auested a peni
tentiary sentence or a challeng
ing mission The mission- To
help reach Pulaski County’s half
million citizens with the shocking
facts gatheied thiough his ex
perience as an addict and pusher.
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identified as “the son of one of
VikaiiMs’s most pi eminent in
diialilalists (“Bari" is not his
name), chose to dedicate his life
to combating the dings and the
illicit and clangorous foiccs now
flooding the United States (evciy
community in the nation) with
an amazing vanety of the deadly
chemicals. In three weeks, he
has made about 20 talks
The sheepdog hair over his
forehead is a disguise of soils
He wears a wig. “This boy’s life
is in jeopardy,” Narcotics Agent
Tom Davis said. “He has been in
touch with some of the bigger
suppliers.”
“Bart” wore bell - bottom trous
eis of denim, a denim jacket ov
er a light T-shirt
The Shefiff’s party also includ
ed another youth “Tom ” He
was a powerfully built fellow
with bulging tatooed biceps He
was diessed in denim The jacket
was elaborately decoiated with
symbols, there was a big color
tul decoiation on his T-shirt, and
little chains hung from his jack
et his neck, his tiousers; there
were even chains on his shoes
This young man had been, as
he said, “in serious trouble with
narcotics ” He sard - “When you
see a peison dressed like this, he
is either alieady hooked on drugs
or is a prime target for every
drug pusher that sees him ”
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"IV been in li cubic for sev
ci.il ji.rs," he said "I w.ii hook
ed on the medio al aye 17 Have
had the most homble witlidiawal
expeiunces you can imagine.
l\c been on pills, goof balls,
mainline needles, the whole
package I've been in the peni
tentiary I’m tiymg now to extri
cate myself fiom the awful way
of life of the addict, and piepare
myself to be of help to the youth
of America by ‘telling it like it
is’.”
“Like it is,” he said, “is this:
Eveiy child in eveiy household
n America is susceptible to the
danger of dings Paients must
face this fact.”
So what to do (this was the
question spontaneously asked
from the audience) 9
Create a stable atmosphere in
the family In eveiything they
do, paients are setting an exam
ple foi their childien, good or
bad Show evidence of love and
confidence toward the childien.
Go to chuich as a family.
Get busy NOW learning all there
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Communicate, parent to child,
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wide ciusade to combat the
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