Drugs at MMU

Drugs. They are a sad, terrible thing. So many people have been addicted to them. It’s sad to see our classmates and friends become addicted to such killers. Here, in 2010, there are drug addicts. They hide fairly well, but they are there.

Out of the kids who responded to a recent survey, all said that they know someone who uses drugs. Whether it is pot or sometimes acid, drugs persist.

“I really think the teacher’s should know about this,” one freshman said.

“We shouldn’t have drugs at all. They don’t belong here,” another girl told me.

“I know people who do drugs but I know it’s not a smart decision,” one girl shared.

An interview with the father of a former drug addict revealed, “[She made] some bad choices with respect to who she 'hung' with, partially because she was always rebellious. She'd come to think of being able to change the way she felt with medications (like large doses of Tylenol for migraines) as OK. Where the high school added to the problem was that access to all sorts of illegal drugs was trivially easy.  She bragged that she could get Speed and LSD between classes. Those who were the administration of the school at that time, denied that there was a problem within the school. Once the impact of declining grades, declining self-esteem, and drug effects all collided in her...she dropped out, ran away from home....” The story ended sadly, when, after a long battle with drugs, his daughter died in 2001.

Everyone wishes that less people would use drugs, especially around us. Parents don’t really think about it when they send us to school, what surrounds us. We students do not have to give in the peer pressure and drugs though. We can be our own person and say no to drugs.