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Heroin abuse남용 by teenagers is on the rise all over the country and now one high school is giving an ultimatum최후통첩 to parents. Attend the seminar on the dangers of heroine or your child will be banned from the prom댄스파티. More than a 1,000 parents attended the forum in Smithtown, New York last night. National correspondent Jim Axelord on why heroine is more dangerous than ever.

 

It’s still easy enough to find heroine addicts중독자 shooting up주사하다 in a New York City stairwell. “Once you like it, you fall in love with it.” But even these junkies쓰레기 know they’re yesterday’s news. Forget injecting heroine. The stuff on the street is so pure now that kids in the suburbs are snorting흡입하다 it. "They don't think they can get addicted because they're not injecting it." “And this is the best puppy in the world.”

 

Teenagers like Natalie Ciappa, National Honor Society at her high school on Long Island, star of the school play, a cheerleader who sang the National Anthem. Everything a parent could want. “This is a kid, good student, brilliant singer, beautiful girl. This is not the picture of a heroine problem.” “It is today.” “This is she is the new heroine addict sadly. This is what people have to worry about.”

 

Days before her high school graduation in 2008, on her father’s birthday, Natalie overdosed and died.

“When we found her, she was gone. She wasn't breathing. She wasn’t breathing. We heard her last breath." Natalie was one of 46 people to die from a heroin overdose last year here in Nassau County, New York, a 75% increase from the year before. That's a troubling spike being felt nationwide.

 

Heroin has killed 25 people so far this year in Will County, Illinois, compared to 16 all last year. The number of heroin deaths in Jefferson County, Alabama, has tripled in the last two years. In 2008, there were 119 heroin deaths across Oregon, 71 in Multnomah County alone. “Heroin is actually cheaper than a six pack of beer." Dealers have refined production methods, making the drug cheaper and more powerful, 15 times as pure as 1970s heroin. “Can a kid do heroine once and die?” "You can do heroin once and it may be the last time that you’ll ever get the chance to do heroin."

 

And users are getting younger. More 8th graders now say they've tried heroin in the last year than 12th graders. "So it's here and you have to accept the fact that your perfect kid could make a mistake like Natalie, but if you don't catch it in time, you're going to bury your kid." Victor Ciappa doesn't need a survey to warn him of the danger. The reminders암시 신호 hang throughout his home.

Jim Axelord, CBS News, Massapequa, New York.

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