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Culpeper or Fauquier Mental Health Clinic to set up an appointment with a substance abuse counselor. “You don’t have to be referred,’’ he added. Peer group pressure is usually the biggest reason why teenagers try drugs, according to Trainer. "Also it feels good and it’s exciting,” he said. "What do you tell your kid about drugs? That’s a rough question when he probably knows more about drugs than you do,” Trainer continued. “We’re a drug oriented society...a drug taking^ society. Kids are brought up that way.”
“You’ve got to start early, teaching drug values,” he advised. “You can’t pretend it doesn’t exist.” Parents have to say, yes it’s around and ask their child how he is going to relate to it. There’s no way the average kid is not going to come into contact with drugs, he warned.
Children have to be prepared so that when they first encounter drugs, it won’t be some new thing, Trainer said. “Scare stories have been proven to be totally unsuccessful,” he cautioned, because kids know enough other kids who’ve tried drugs without an unpleasant experience.
“One thing we have to remember about all these drugs is that they make you feel good and that’s why people take them,” Trainer said, adding that users counterbalanced the risks in drug abuse against these good feelings.
In answer to a question on how drug problems are handled in the Rappahannock schools. Bloomer answered that it depended on two factors — the amount and the drug itself. When a student is discovered with an illegal drug, the school's first responsibility is to notify the child’s parents. If the drug is hard to identify, the police are called in. "Then we follow either legal proceedings or counseling depending on the situation,’ Bloomer concluded.
Bloomer acknowledged that there was no program
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