Drug exposure poses risks for children

Movement seeks to increase awareness
By Journal-Advocate staff
Posted: 04/26/2011 04:37:05 PM MDT

Colorado- Early Childhood Council Logan, Phillips, Sedgwick Counties (ECCLPS) joins the Colorado Alliance for Drug Endangered Children today in seeking to increase awareness of the Colorado Drug Endangered Children (DEC) Movement.

Gov. John Hickenlooper has proclaimed today, April 26, as Colorado`s first Drug Endangered Children Awareness Day -- a day to recognize the risks children face growing up exposed to substance use, distribution, cultivation and manufacturing in their homes.

Parental substance use or involvement in the illegal drug trade is a leading factor in child abuse and neglect cases in Colorado. Children whose parents abuse alcohol or drugs are three times more likely to be verbally, physically or sexually abused and four times more likely than other children to be neglected. Additionally, children in families affected by substance use are at an increased risk for substance use and mental health issues in adolescence. FULL STORY

HEY! If you have kids and you use illegal drugs, someday the axe will fall on YOU.
Don't come bawling back here begging for help because we have no sympathy for you.
You have been warned.