Irish youth using heroin at a shockingly young age
Irish youth using heroin at a shockingly young age
The Irish Examiner is reporting that there is a growing heroin addiction problem among children as young as 12 years old. The shocking report is based on the findings of Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine, that surveyed 86 teenagers in Dublin who were drug users and discovered that many had started using heroin at the age of 14 and many were addicted by the age of 16.
Mental illness played a significant role in the findings as well, with 52% of those surveyed having visited a psychiatrist at some point during their lives.
Families in the United States and around the world would be well-served to pay attention to these findings, as many of the drug addicted teens came from stable, two-parent family homes and did not exhibit any kinds of criminal behavior outside of the drug use.
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