It's a very interesting show on the TLC channel its on Sunday nights. Its about people dealing with addictions and their family and friends getting together and planning an intervention for them. They show everything from gambling addicts to heroin addicts.
Anyway, I was watching last night and there was this chick on herion who was prostitutung to support her habit, it was so scary, I swear it haunted my dreams! As someone who has had a history with drugs, very little shocks me anymore. And I dont know why this particular episode touched me so much. Maybe because that could have been me, but seeing someone in that state is just a scary thing. And its not depicted, its REAL, they follow these people around with cameras and capture how their whole life revolves around getting their fix.
Well, I guess my point is that I think is if showing how it REALLY is, can scare someone like myself that maybe this should be used as a tool to scare kids before they ever get started. D.A.R.E. doesnt work, and most of it is mis-information anyway, ala' "refer madness". I know that these images will stay with me for a long time and hopefully would likewise show kids that its not all fun and cool, its cracked out, dangerous and scary.
-April