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Work together to fight drugs

Dear Editor:

I am a mother, a friend, a sister, and a daughter who has been affected by the demon of drugs. I am tired of something so small, yet so powerful, destroying (us) humanity.

Year after year, I watch as this monster separates and destroys our families. This ugly villain alters our loved ones’ minds causing them to say and do things that leave them even more broken and guilt ridden, which holds them in their addiction; these drugs control their actions, driving them to steal, kill, and abandon their families.

How long are we going to talk about the problem instead of providing the solution? How long are we going to be enablers to something that leads our loved ones to death’s door? How long are we going to continue to act as though it actually doesn’t exist?

I’m lost for words for a friend who has lost her son to addiction. I speak to you, the one reading or hearing this, God can turn this around, but it’s going to take all of us to play our part — the mother, the wife, the sister, the brother, the aunt, the uncle, the friend and even the stranger. The war is not going to be won through just one person alone, but through a mighty army.

I ask of you to join with me — city to city, state to state, heart to heart — to reach out and meet the needs of those that desperately need us.

Angie Carter

East Liverpool

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