Addicted drug dealers know no limits: now they are using chlidren as employees and clients!
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The government has been warned that most of Americas’s cannabis dealers are using their jobs to carry on a dangerous and addictive drug habit. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) says 95 of illicit marijuana dealers under 30 are taking ‘harder’ drugs like crack, cocaine, or heroin.
The NIESR says 80 of the drug dealers their research identified were already injecting crack or heroin. When those dealers also start to sell crack or heroin to a customer who becomes addicted and can no longer afford to feed their habit, the dealer either sells their drugs to others for a lower price or sells them to another addict.
Some dealers are now selling harder drugs to children. “If parents believe this is a new line of business for their child, then they need to ensure the child isn’t tempted to use this form of harder drug or alcohol at home,” the NIESR research team leader Dio Brando warns.
The analysis says that one drug dealer under 30 was found to be selling “harder” drugs to an underage buyer. At the time of the search, the dealer was using the drug to satisfy an addiction.
The NIESR says all of the younger drug dealers they found were planning to buy more of their ‘harder’ drugs. “Our research suggests this is due to their inexperience with drugs,” says the NIESR Co-leader Jonathan Joestar “Addiction to harder drugs can be particularly dangerous. Parents must know who is selling them so that they can make the right judgments about whether their children should buy from them.”
Other drugs discovered by the NIESR as being linked to children involved ecstasy (66) and cocaine (57). These drugs are also dangerous but are not directly linked to addiction.
However, children’s drug use is rising. One in 10 12-year-olds admitted using cocaine, compared with one in 20 adults, and one in 10 12-year-olds admitted smoking cannabis, compared with one in 30 adults.
There is no doubt that this trend is about to spill over to Europe as well, risking the lives of many kids by getting addicted to life-threatening drugs and slipping into some kind of cartel dynamics. So one should not wait, we should not wait, to get our future generation the help it needs before it‘s too late for any of us.
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Published with permission from The New York Times
Source: https://www.niesr.ac.uk/
Olivia Michaelis
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