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  Thank you Biddy_Blogger for the information regarding YSmart.  This  looks like  a really great service for youngsters who recognise they have a problem and want to do something about  it; but I do not think it would have helped me as my daughter "knew it all" and would not have been willing to be referred as she denied she had a problem.
  It does not look as though it helps the parents/carers either, although I may be wrong.
  We needed somewhere we could take our daughter where we could perhaps have family mediation where our daughter could see the effect she was having on her family. 
  
  So far as the legal high being as easy to buy as a bag of fruit gums, I can feel  your helplessness and this is why parents need help too. We need to ensure that kids do not get away with taking mind changing drugs.  They are vunerable and need protecting, dealers out there don't  care about what it does to our kids, they just want a bit of extra cash - they need to be stopped.  It may be a legal drug now, but kids are like kittens and soon get bored and move on to the next thing -

  By lazydays at 07:26 on 18/03/10

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  I don't know if this will help but at a meeting tonight I met a lady called Annie Moore who is the Parent Participation Development Officer for Devon County Council.
  
  I had read your earlier posts which really touched me as I have a teenage son too.  I asked Annie where would be the first port of call for a parent in your situation to get help.
  
  Annie's job is to co-ordinate all the different resources for parents in Devon and she recommended Y-smart.  I've just Googled it tinyurl.com/yl24xno and see that it is in Barnstaple. 
  
  I hope that this helps.

  By biddy_blogger at 22:34 on 17/03/10

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  The problem being that this legal high is as easy to buy as a bag of fruit gums!

  By amandabailey1 at 20:33 on 17/03/10

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  The feelings of helplessness are vast when you are put in the situation of a family member taking drugs. 
  People should report every single incident  they witness  which could be associated with drugs.  I would have no hesitation now, knowing what I do,  "shopping" my daughter to the police. 
  I would also inform the police of all the names of her friends who were also taking the drugs.
  
  I knew where my daughter went, so it really wouldn't have been that difficult to find out who was supplying her with the drugs.  Unfortunately I thought I was protecting her, and I guess I was scared  what was going to happen to me if I prodded this particular wasp nest. 
  
  PLEASE if you witness anything which could be a drug transaction report it to the police.  They have a duty to protect the community- don't walk on by thinking that there is nothing you can do because your family could be the next one to be destroyed by drugs.

  By lazydays at 17:36 on 17/03/10

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  With all due respect,what can I do? My lovely son has been doing methadrone since Christmas,along with most of his peers, and we are seeing him change into someone else.We have begged,pleaded,shouted at him,cried to him not to do it again,got as much information on the stuff as we can to tell him of the danger.This stuff is even advertised on this site,on a google ad to your right hand side.

  By amandabailey1 at 13:41 on 17/03/10

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