Pubdate: Sun, 19 Nov 2006
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
Copyright: 2006 The Tribune Co.
Contact: http://www.tbo.com/news/opinion/submissionform.htm
Website: http://www.tampatrib.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/446
Author: Lottie Balish
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n1560/a09.html

STORY WILL SAVE LIVES

Regarding "A Broken Mind" (front page, Nov. 12):

Wow.

God bless Jan Hollingsworth for opening up her very intimate and 
painful story of her son. This is even more incredible given that 
Hollingsworth is a public figure - as a reporter and more - who 
allowed us into her private world in order to help others with a 
complicated drug.

Until I read her beautifully written story, all I knew about GHB was 
that it's "the date-rape drug."

I am certain many of us who are kid/tween/teen parents, who are 
trying to keep up with the latest addictive substance and who support 
our wonderful and life-pressured kids, have written in to your excellent paper.

Excellence comes from an angel of a lady named Jan Hollingsworth.

I am saddened, moved and changed by her story. And as her story ends, 
it will save more than one life. I am confident of that.

Lottie Balish

Tampa
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