Children-Drugs Persuasion Paper

Children are affected by their parents. Parents are affected by drugs. Therefore drugs affect children. Drugs traumatize children. The drug known as, Crank or meth has become an epidemic in the Western United States. Drugs are not victimless crimes. Drugs affect the addicts' grandparents, parents, children, siblings, law enforcement officers, court workers, and average citizens like you and me. Many experts describe meth addicts as aggressive, belligerent, mean, anxious, fearful and paranoid. These extreme feelings …

…children in temporary state custody are there because of parents involved in meth. The numbers even greater outside the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene corridor, in the St. Maries Department of Health and Welfare office, an estimated 90 percent of kids in foster homes have meth-addicted parents. Jonathan Martin, Mike Roarke and Angie Gaddy (1999) Meth: A deadly epidemic (6-Part series). The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington. Retrieved on November 5, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://www.msnbc.com/news/498823.asp