TA的首页SL1-Arrest My Daughter
It was the hardest the thing she had ever had to do.
Desperate and tearful, Jackie Keene phoned the police to report her drug-addict daughter for stealing her car. By calling in the authorities when 21-year old Rachel fled their home, she hoped someone would be able to provide urgently needed treatment.
A distraught Mrs. Keene, 47 said: “It breaks my heart, but I can’t help her. She needs treatment. I would rather see her in a psychiatric ward than have her here before things get even worse.”
Rachel had been living at home under close watch of her mother, who was trying to curb her addiction. Rachel has refused all attempts to have her admitted to a clinic, and there is no law to force her.
The once bubbly girl began experimenting with drugs two years ago, when she began going to all night rave parties. She took LSD and Ecstasy and smoked cannabis joints like they were cigarettes.
At first, Mrs. Keene had no idea what was happening, but about a year ago Rachel’s behaviour became increasingly peculiar. She was unable to concentrate; she made strange whining noises to herself and developed a persecution complex. When she moved out to stay with friends in nearby Wallasey, her behaviour deteriorated. In August she took an overdose of 100 aspirin and tripped on LSD. She was delirious in hospital.
Mrs. Keene said: “If any other youngster had seen my daughter then, they’d never touch drugs. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, but afterwards her friends told me she would take up to ten trips a night.”
Mrs. Keene and her older brother Sarah, a nurse, watch her closely to make sure she was taking no more drugs. But Rachel continued to lapse into bouts of paranoia and aggression.
“I haven’t a clue what I want to do with my life”. Mrs. Keene said, “You see, that’s what she’s become. We can’t leave her like this. I’m telling her story to warn other teenagers.”
Desperate and tearful, Jackie Keene phoned the police to report her drug-addict daughter for stealing her car. By calling in the authorities when 21-year old Rachel fled their home, she hoped someone would be able to provide urgently needed treatment.
A distraught Mrs. Keene, 47 said: “It breaks my heart, but I can’t help her. She needs treatment. I would rather see her in a psychiatric ward than have her here before things get even worse.”
Rachel had been living at home under close watch of her mother, who was trying to curb her addiction. Rachel has refused all attempts to have her admitted to a clinic, and there is no law to force her.
The once bubbly girl began experimenting with drugs two years ago, when she began going to all night rave parties. She took LSD and Ecstasy and smoked cannabis joints like they were cigarettes.
At first, Mrs. Keene had no idea what was happening, but about a year ago Rachel’s behaviour became increasingly peculiar. She was unable to concentrate; she made strange whining noises to herself and developed a persecution complex. When she moved out to stay with friends in nearby Wallasey, her behaviour deteriorated. In August she took an overdose of 100 aspirin and tripped on LSD. She was delirious in hospital.
Mrs. Keene said: “If any other youngster had seen my daughter then, they’d never touch drugs. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, but afterwards her friends told me she would take up to ten trips a night.”
Mrs. Keene and her older brother Sarah, a nurse, watch her closely to make sure she was taking no more drugs. But Rachel continued to lapse into bouts of paranoia and aggression.
“I haven’t a clue what I want to do with my life”. Mrs. Keene said, “You see, that’s what she’s become. We can’t leave her like this. I’m telling her story to warn other teenagers.”
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