Update: Parental Forum on Substance Abuse

Tuesday and Thursday, 3 Dimensional Life staff and students attended the Parental Forum on Substance Abuse in Hall County. The 3D students, in particular did an outstanding job of explaining the easy access to drugs in public schools and what parents can do.

On Tuesday, there was one comment made that I simply cannot leave un-discussed:

"I don't think you can get drugs on school property."

This comment holds a magnitude of weight illustrating how easy it is to be naive: if school property says "Drug-Free", then you hope the best that is truly what is said. However, here are some statistics to ponder:

About 2/3 of high school students and 1/4 of middles school students say drugs are used, kept or sold on the grounds of their school.
Students who say they attend drug-infected schools are:

• Almost 3 times likelier to be able to get marijuana in the first hour
• And twice as likely to be able to get prescription drugs in an hour
• 1 out of 5 teens who say drugs are used, kept or sold on the grounds of their schools name school as the place where they could obtain marijuana

(emphasis is mine)

Its one thing to read these statistics. Its an entirely different thing to go a parental forum and discuss the impact of drugs in schools. But it is an extremely eye-opening experience to attend a forum where you can look into the eyes of students who are in regeneration program for drugs or look into the eyes of parents who have lost a child to a drug or alcohol overdose.

3 Dimensional Life received a lot of great feed back from Tuesday night:

"Our [school] counselor went to the parental forum last night and was very impressed with 3D. She said one of the boys spoke also; so glad they went and shared their story/testimony."

"The boys did a great job and the other kids in the audience certainly supported what they were saying."

"John and Riche [the two 3d students who spoke] touched my heart. The personal accountability and and desire for God to be apart of their lives is every parents answered prayer."

3 Dimensional Life has the privilege of helping addicted-students experience a changed and adopted lifestyle transformation. It is our hope that as the need becomes more apparent, that the LORD will open up more opportunities to share about the life-change that is available.