Nine year old heroin addict,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4797631.stm<BR>
"A drug addict mother has been jailed for nine years for supplying heroin and crack cocaine to her son from the age of nine."


Whenever my faith in mankind is restored, somebody has to go and f it up.

Another article-
http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/Opium/addfem.asp

"In 1994, the Wak Foundation for Afghanistan (WFA) published a report entitled 'National Drug Addicts Survey in Afghanistan: Opium in the Hindu Kush', stating that in northeastern Nuristan, small amounts of opium were being given to young children for cough relief. The report warned that children of opium addicted mothers could become addicted through breast milk, adding that this could lead to further problems.

For example, if an addicted mother was unable to find opium for her use when her child could not sleep or began to cry, such a mother might attempt to calm her child by either rubbing a small amount of opium on her lips and then putting her lips over the lips of her child - or by inserting a grain-size piece of opium into the child's anus, the report said.

Although Rahema maintains none of her six children suffer from addiction, she recalled how if her children were ill, she would blow opium into their open mouths. "It was effective and helped the children sleep," she claimed."


Dear god.

They used to put alcohol in babies' gripe water up until the late 60's and encourage women to have a drink and relax during their pregnancy. It's all relative. I don't think the opium one is that horrendous. The heroin one yes. The mother should be thrown into jail period as she's a menace to her own child.

I truly agree with Archer on this.