Children At-Risk

Lansing civilises will give to the parents with mi-Michigan with tests of dope that they can give to their children.

Sgt. Linda Doherty-Wright will give kits ladder of the State thanks to a programme of precocious intervention called Law Enforcement Against Drugs.

Doherty "Nobody wants to think that their rascal is assistant (medicaments), but he ya so much more pressure by the peers which exists and the drug is more easily accessible at present, "said Wright.

«The children make righteous man some bad choices sometimes."

The tests of urine can screening of drugs among which some cocaine, marihuana, ecstasy, the méthamphétamine, the morphine and PCP.

He ya a distinct criterion for the alcohol.

Tests, which give notings down in some minutes, are free for 30 next days. Thereafter, they are 3 $ or 12 $, according to the test.

Doherty-Wright ordered 200 of the tests and are possible get more than a notice of day.

She said that she can cost up to 100 $ to take the child at the doctor for a test.

Every kit is delivered with a booklet describing common features and symptoms of abuse of drugs and of alcohol.

Doherty-Wright also gives a list of local agencies which take care of miners questions of drug dependency. Created LEAD a telephone permanence to help the parents in the interpretation of tests.

Tests are not an instrument of execution, said Doherty-Wright.

«We do not try rascals bust for medicaments, we just try to get them the assistant which they need, she says.

«It gives them a starting point once they discover that he ya a problem."

Children to abuse drugs begin get bad notes often, stop to go to school and, finally, has behaviour problems which include to enter crime, Doherty said Wright.

Dave Prichard, creator of LEAD, declared more than 50 for hundred children used an illicit drug at the time when they leave the high school.

«The biggest challenge, the experts estimate, help the parents to understand that they have a huge influence on decisions of their children linked to the abuse of drug", declared Prichard.

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