Teenager Shares Her Tale Of Horror And Addiction

SOUTH COUNTY - A 12-year-old girl huddles in the corner of a dark and filthy flop house, a piece of rubber wrapped around her arm. A shaky hand sticks a needle in her vein. Her world turns bright white then grey and fuzzy.

The shaking stop.

So does her heart.

This is just one instance out of volumes of statistics showing the dramatic and ever-increasing rise in the use of hard-core lethal drugs by young children. Reports indicate that methamphetamine is now, by far, the drug of choice amongst our youth and that the problem has reached epidemic proportions.

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