Weekly Reading, October 21th, 2008

This week I read an article called Dealers, Beware in the People's Heroes among us section. This article explained about a man named Lance Merrill who founded an organization called Dads Against Drug Dealers to catch drug dealers and get them off the streets. His purpose of doing this was the death of his 19 year old daughter Jani who died October 1st, 2006. Starting at age 17 she became addicted to painkillers and heroin and it eventually lead to an overdose when she checked out of her third time at a rehabilitation center. This organization has a website where Lance posts addresses, names and other useful information to inform people of these dangerous drug people and a reward of 500 dollars on information about them. Since 2000, the number of people entering rehab centers for drug use has increased greatly. With the help of Lance Merrill, drug dealers are being found and fined and he is helping the community become a better and safer place.