By James Simons-
Many crack and heroine addicts have been disowned by their parents, The Eye Of Media.com can reveal.
Parents who are ashamed and disgusted by their children’s low life addiction to crack have broken all ties with their children because of their terrible and shameless addiction to crack and heroine, referred by them as white and brown.
Many of the reasons range from their perpetual draining of the family resources to the stealing of goods and money from their family home, crack addicts have told the eye of media.com in a comprehensive survey conducted by many of our writers separately and together. Lots of addicts stoop as low as to stealing their parents credit cards without their parents permission, selling their laptops, and continuously harassing their parents- some of who are on pension- for money to be transferred to them. Other reasons include a lifestyle of prostitution by female addicts who sell their bodies just to fund their destructive habits.
Sitting on street corners to beg for money has also been mentioned as one of the reasons parents dump their kids who have brought the family name to disrepute. 47 out of a total of 106 addicts told the eye of media.com that they sit on street cornersto beg for money to finance their habit because they have no other way to earn money. Their money from the government usually disapppears the very day they receive it because they spend it on drugs and debts that are drug related, and need more money to keep their habits going. They ask every random person for money and sometimes meet friends or associates of their families when begging.
ROUGH
One crack and heroine addict from Basildon Essex, told the eye of media.com ” it is a rough life out here , I sometimes see family friends when begging and worry that it will upset my mum when she hears, but mum already knows I am on drugs. She has written me off, there isn’t much I can do about it now, I am a hooked addict. The 29 year old woman slurs her words when talking, and comes across like a 29 year old going 18. I just couldn’t give a fxxx what people think, I have to get high everyday. Her mother is a secondary school teacher of English in Romford, and her father is a tax collector. My dad left my mum when I was 14, and my mum has a new boyfriend who can’t stand the sight of me. My dad and mum still keep in touch from time , they give my two sisters and one brother Christmas and birthday presents, but I don’t even get a phone call from them”, she complains. They have given up on me, they don’t try to help me”.
The woman who won’t be named, admits robbing her mum of £300 on one occassion when her mum was asleep. ” I was seriously clocking, she says, I saw £300 in he rpurse whilst she was in the shower, and I just couldn’t resist it. Her credit card was there too, a contactless, so I rinsed it of £500 worth of goods. That was 3 years ago, but she has never forgiven me since”.
Her friend of of 26 did the same to her mother, setting up her 29 inch television to be stolen by her addict boyfriend, and sold two of her laptops. ” My mum actually called the police on me when I did that, but I denied it, and she had no evidence, so the case went nowhere. I was out of order to do it, but I was 19 at the time, young and stupid. My mum should never have got the police involved because I am her daughter. Her mother is a nurse, and her father is a policeman for the London Metroplitan police. ”I think she was wrong to do it. We were both wrong”, she says. As a copper , it is understandable why her father wants nothing to do with her, but has he ever arrested her for drugs? ”He has threatened to, but never has. We stay out of each others way, don’t even talk or see each other now.
TREATMENT
There are treatments available for drug addiction like methadone, but this apparently doesn’t work for everybody. ”You have to still have will power, it doesn’t work with me”. Most drug addicts are caught up in the cycle of drugs and more drugs, they say boredom and low self esteem caused by past abusive relationships is responsible. ”I started smoking crack because I wanted to be accepted by my new boyfriend after the one before him treated me like shxx. I fancied my new boyfriend and thought he was cool and popular. I now realise he was popular with fools like me”. She regrets ever starting, but she is one of several youths written off by her parents because of drugs.The girl fails to admit that her stupidity is still very much alive even seven years later. She smokes pipes anywhere she can, on stairways, pub toilets,and even outside job centres, by her own admission.
Another 33 year old crackhead from Leytonstone told the eye of media.com ” believe it or not, but my dad is a medical doctor, he has owned his own practice for 21 years. My mother is a recruitment manager in West London. .They have disowned me, and not spoken to me for 8 years. Refusing to go into details, he said ”I have been a bad son, I hope they can forgive me one day. I fell into the wrong crowd at 15. They were tough and wore the latest clothes, so I wanted to mingle with them. I started with smoking cannabis, then when I saw some of my friends smoking crack, it looked tough and hard.
” People saw them as dangerous boys not to mess with, and for some stupid reason , it appealed to me. I wanted to look like a tough guy who could handle anything, so I simply accepted offers to smoke crack. It was free at the time, then before I knew it I was paying for it. I didn’t want to look like a pence or a free loader, so when the guys asked for contributions, I just went along with it. I have been hooked ever since. Looking back, it was a bad decision, I wish I could turn the clock back”.
Most crack heads, according to our research, come from broken homes where one or both parents were crack heads themselves. However, there are those from professional homes, who have joined the bad bunch.
The research on crack and heroine addicts is headed by 27 year old researcher, Chris Williamson under the directions of our editor, Gabriel Princewill. Williamson, who also writes for the eye of media.com said : The research shows that crack heads don’t only come from bad homes, but there are a number who are from good professional backgrounds, but who are also the black sheep of the family. Many have stooped to serious lows and have been cast out by their families. It is important for young people to understand how many people become hooked, so they can avoid the pitfalls.
The findings of our research is progressively being proposed to primary and secondary schools to enlighten children about how bad peer pressure can lead people up the wrong path, and destroy their lives. It is due to be presented to the education minister for considerarion a spart of the education curriculum.