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Daily Nation 24th. August 2004

The headline in your paper, "Drug abuse takes center stage at fete" (DN, August 10) could have applied to the content of most of the srticle which centred on drug abuse.

The five students involved were released "after top education officials intervened." In the same paper's editorial titled "A sad reflection of our society" the paper laments that "students had the audacity to buy alcohol from some dens and ferry them to KICC was a sad testimony that we have seasoned and dare-devil drug peddlers in our schools."

The truth of the matter is this statement can as well been used to describe the shennanigans we got up to in the mid-seventies when I was in high school. The only difference was there was some semblance of fear of the authorities.

But now we are the parents and in an attempt to look liberal, we have literally abandoned our children. The rules governing our use of alcohol will be what we determine them to be not what the West or other societies decide. It has to be based on what is good for us and our youth.

laugh and say these are the rantins which usually accompany those who no longer use drugs like alcohol or tobacco. As arecovering alcoholic, I realised that to continue drinking was to die, and there was only one way out - abstinence.

Since then life has only got better. Problems are still there except now I am sober enough to tackle them sensibly. I succeed in some endevous fail in others, but I am sober enough to get up and try again.

David Ogot
Nairobi.

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