There are a lot of problems connected with using drugs – the dangers of the drugs themselves are just the beginning. Here’s one young man’s story. It may have had a far different ending had he done a good drug rehab program earlier.

He’s 21 years old. Doesn’t have a great history – his probation ended just a week ago for a felony drug possession case. He then finds a drug on the Internet called 2C-E, a synthetic hallucinogen.

He takes the drug to a party and offers it to whoever wants some. I don’t know how many people took the offer, but one person died, and ten others were hospitalized. They were between 16 and 21 years old.

The guy who died was 19 years old, a college student and a new father. After he snorted the drug, he got violent – punching walls, breaking things, and yelling – was staring with dilated pupils, and then stopped breathing. He went to the hospital, where he was on life support, and died of cardiac arrest, attributed to the drug.

Of the ten who went to the hospital, two remained there for several days in critical condition.

The young man who provided the 2C-E has now been charged with murder, and, no doubt, there will be other charges as well, and facing many years in prison.

A lot of lives were ruined here. The guy who provided the drugs, the guy who died, and I’m sure the experience will have a long term effect on the others who were hospitalized as well. Although, we hope, they would have learned a lesson from this and maybe will stop doing drugs.

Would your kid have tried that drug in that situation? Perhaps. And they may not have been one of the lucky ones – those who lived.

This is the kind of thing that can happen. And it’s one more reason why you need to get your kid, if they’re using drugs, into a good drug rehab program immediately. These things happen without warning.

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