Monday, April 16, 2012

Cat Lake Students Talk About Addiction

Some First Nations children in a remote northwestern Ontario reserve have written a heartbreaking letter to their drug-addicted parents.

The Grade Six students write that they want their parents to stop doing drugs because it hurts their families.

Cat Lake is the epicentre of prescription drug addiction in Canada.

Community leaders figure that between 70 and 80 per cent of the adults are hooked on narcotic pain killers OxyContin or Percocets.

The letter was part of a workshop and was composed with the help of a local band member.