It's a hard and courageous thing do in admitting to such a lifestyle. I know that you are sincere in what you say and embarrassed at the same time. But if folks like you do not speak up and reveal the true results of a drug infected lifestyle then how will young people know and find out the truth.

Indo...Hopeless is revealing truth that you need to learn. Save yourself buddy.

Life is great past drugs isn't it Hopeless. It doesn't mean that we don't live with and deal with the trash from our past. But it does mean we get a second chance to try to steer young people away from the destructive lifestyle of drugs and bad sexual choices. Enjoy your daughter and husband. They are treasurers for sure.

Thank you very much for your support. My past is something that I am ashamed of and I hate admitting it, but it is part of who I have become, a strong women, wife, and mother. I just hope that I can reach more to our youth by talking to them about the affects of drugs and reckless sex has on a young one's life. I'd hate for them to never realize how great life can be, sober. So much of America's children are subjecting themselves to drugs and not making anything of their lives. Is this truely what we will have running our society as we get older? If so, God help us now.

I agree with Wake Up. You need to change your name. You've already spread hope with your recent comments. By the way...my real name is Git Real. Don't ask...long story.

Hopeless, you have the wrong alias. Never is something hopeless. That means there is no hope. You have become a strong woman, wife and mother who cares and will reach out to the youth. Change your name, just not your passions and how you care.

Since school is out probably just about anywhere. Check the remote parts of the cart path, with no homes on either side, lots of privacy.

Just about any school, public or private makes little difference.

Again this is the part where parents fail their kids. Where do you think kids can get drugs? This has been around since I was in school. I could buy a hit of acid in school when I was in seventh grade. By the way that would have been 1970.

Now please don’t start with “well the department of education should…”, it’s not their job. It’s the parent’s job to recognize that their child has a problem.

There is NO excuse in not knowing that you child is “on” something. Even households with two hard working parents need to be able to make such a determination. If they can’t, then they’re obviously not working hard enough.

Why is it that parents these days think they need to work so hard to acquire material things and NOT pay attention to their children? Which is the greater investment, your house, your car, your boat or your kids?

If you can’t answer that question correctly then don’t bitch when kids end up in jail or dead.

I like it. I like it. My kids have all they need and most of want they want. You know what they want most of all? Me and Momma. My wife recently quit her job so we can make sure the kids have access to us when they need us. And they need us all of the time. Gonna miss that check....hope our plan works.

I quit my job after my daughter was born. We knew it would be difficult financially, but taking the best care of her is worth a little financial strain. I didn't go to college thinking I would become a stay at home mom. But, I didn't give birth to her to let strangers raise her 55 hours a week either. Your kids are probably older than day care age but I have just heard recently about some horrible treatment happening at a day care. I say, if you can even almost afford to stay home rather than put your child in day care, do it. You will be rewarded umpteen times throughout your children's lives.

Christi I am glade to here you do or did not work when your daughter was born my wife does not either. MY KIDS ARE BETER OFF FOR IT...Good for you keep up the good work, I mean it..

While it did not make us rich folk, put quite a strain, in fact. My wife was a stay at home.

One of the hardest jobs in the world.

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For the encouragement and affirmation. Everyone is telling us our family and kids are going to benefit tremendously from this decision.

First person you see on something, simply ask them where to get some.

Where can I get some Heroin?

Finally you got one. You may develop a sense of humor and open up your mind yet.

I have you as friend Highgreen.

if it is the worst.

But I remember past years with joy riding golf cart thefts, vandalized mail boxes and so on.

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Just because the word "teen" is in the numbers 18 and 19 does not mean they are teens.

The headline should say "man" arrested. Not teen.

Throw the book at him. He can get the rehab he needs in prison.

I was there at the time this incident happened. Zach is my best friend. He has been close to me for the past 4 years of my life. He has problems, but how can you say an addict needs jail time? He needs to go to long term rehab, Which he is attending as we speak. Seeing my friend how he was that night broke my heart. I could not stop crying as my friend busted down the door and another called 911. It was the scariest time of my life. Please show some consideration and dont say, "Throw the book at him. He can get the rehab he needs in prison." Even though he might be considered a "Man" by law he still is a kid who just graduated high school.

JAIL MIGHT SAVE HIS LIFE

InDo...Are you on the stuff too? Get help and be careful who you hang out with. When on drugs everyone is your friend. Get clean and get very, very far from the user scene. They are not your friends. They like you because you help to enable and condone their behaviour. Trust me on this one.

Spare me the verbal butt whooping. Someone needed to say it to you.

If indeed he was/is your friend for the past four years it’s apparent that you did NOTHING to help your friend.

Why on earth should we have any more compassion for him then you obviously do?

By definition a friend is:

1. A person whom one knows, likes, and trusts.
2. A person whom one knows; an acquaintance.
3. A person with whom one is allied in a struggle or cause; a comrade.
4. One who supports, sympathizes with, or patronizes a group, cause, or movement: friends of the clean air movement.
5. Friend A member of the Society of Friends; a Quaker.

Which one are you?

I can see with "friends" like you he can use all the help he can get.

Im sorry i helped him threw his first rehab. he came out and lied to me.... its not my fault. He was the best and still is the best friend i ever have had. I knew him before all of this mess. How can u ever say he is not my friend. This city is sick and twisted if you can say stuff like that to me about him.

Sometimes a best friend chooses a path that seperates the two of you as you grow older. My best friend in middle and high school and I are prime examples of what I mean. By no means was I an angel but Jim's path caused a seperation in our lives that was unavoidable. I grew out of my bad decisions but Jim continued his path of drugs, alcohol, and a sex addiction. I parted ways with Jim shortly after high school because of his self imposed destructive behavior which trumped the friendship we had. Jim has been in and out of prison for drugs, rape and child molestation. I chose wisely and did not allow Jim to take me down in his drug induced state of self gratification. You friend has a choice to make and so do you. If he chooses poorly I hope you will save yourself and choose wisely.

To address your comments about this city being sick. Well let's just say this world is sick and the truth can often times be even more sickening.

Few find a reason to get off drugs. Or lack the stamina to isolate themselves from it.

Even many who get off go back. Some pressure and they return.

Forget the passion, they need to be seriously scared. At least, then, there is hope a bunch will not get on to begin with, out of fear.

For those on, the last thing they need is a comfortable ride getting off. That does them no good when they get dumped back into reality.

Why? Because they see rehab as their comfort zone, at others expenses.

Some will not be helped. They don't want it.

Fear of consequences keeping them off, to begin with, or to return to, is the best hope.

And alternatives. Our humanistic society gives people no hope. You live, you die and that is it.

In these terrible economic times, what does a young person, who sees all as shades of gray, have to look forward to? They turn to the many things we are seeing because, to them, it makes no difference, it all goes and ends badly.

They have no hope and no purpose. Life is empty to them.

All they have to do, in many cases, is look at their bitter parents and adult friends to see the future.

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Even though i greatly appriciate your input into this topic i knew Zach before all of this at military school. We were roomates. We kicked it off to be best friends. I experimented with marijuana and others but never really cared for it much. I do not see Zach being a heroin addict. It just doesnt fit him. When this whole incedent happened i was heart broken. I couldnt stop crying as I was filling out the police statement. It was the hardest thing in my life so far to see my friend, pale as anyone can see, sitting on the toliet, after me and a friend busted down the door, with a belt around his arm. What i mean by all of this is I could not see myself ever giving Zach up as a friend. He is beyond that stage. He is a brother.