After reading several interviews and short stories about the “Safe Haven Facilities” in countries across the world, it makes one feel almost cheated out of the fairy tale life our parents used to read to us when we were younger.
We were always told stories about princes and princesses, love and romance, once upon a time beginnings and happily ever after endings. But what we weren’t told were stories about peers, family, friends, and about any other person you could ever imagine being lured into, experimenting and possibly dying of addictive substances.
It is said that in the sixth grade an RCMP officer comes to the classroom once to give us all a heart to heart on drugs before we enter the high school. When we met with the officer he started by saying right off the bat that if we are ever pressured into doing drugs, “Just Say No!”. Well what happens if we don’t say no? What happens when it is a potential friend that is asking us? Children won’t run to authorities or tell the teacher on duty that a kid just asked them to smoke a joint with him on library hill! If the child any has common sense he would simply walk away from the situation. But really how m
In the past years, in Kensington, we had a community center (Drop In Center) that had made an attempt to keep kids off the street. If it hadn’t kept youth from out in the cold and prevent loitering, than it most definitely helped reduce the use of drugs and alcohol among the youth. Although we don’t have a large population of youth on the streets at night, either looking for a dealer to supply for their habits or just a buddy to go out the road with, how many youth will it take before they get some recognition? How many more addicts is our little town of only 1383 must be admitted into rehabilitation before our government really start to take action? Instead we should be teaching our youth the effects of drugs and the long term consequences. They are discouraged from discussing other concerns and asking their questions. It’s getting too late! We have already gotten to the point where the abusers won’t listen. They want to live in the here and now without having to worry about getting their next fix.
They never taught us the harmful effects of the drugs or the struggles that junkies go through on a day to day basis on the streets. They never told us that if we d
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