Say No to Drugs

Since I've been in detention I've encountered many drug addicts. Their behavior is childish, obnoxious, self-centered, and spacey. They have attention span problems. I have to conclude that their drug adbuses have fired their brains. Knowing that, I think back to the years I spent counseling troubled youth on the damaging and lasting effects of drugs. They wouldn't listen to any reasoning even though they had seen pictures of a healthy brain and a brain after drug use. The majority of those kids believed that bad things wouldn't happen to them. As I look at the adults that I have witnessed in detention, I'm seeing the effects drugs had on those invincible youth.