Troubled Teens Resources

Teen age drug abuse claims yet another life. Randomly, almost casually, troubled teenagers everyday are dying from drugs. Everyday there are countless articles describing yet another overdose, murder or rape - all attributable to drugs and drug addicts. It is amazing to consider that today’s teens never lived in a world where drug deaths were just simply rare. Where addiction was cause for shame. Where the drug death of a 17 year old girl getting high with old men was not common.

“A grand jury has indicted two men on charges that they gave a 17-year-old girl a lethal combination of drugs during the hours leading to her death.
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The six charges include first-degree murder, second-degree murder and child abuse as well as counts that accuse the two men of providing Ochoa with cocaine, marijuana and Hydrocodone, a pain reliever related to codeine.
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A witness told authorities that at 2 a.m. they went to the home and started drinking beer, according to a Pinal County Sheriff’s Office report.
As time progressed, Ochoa used cocaine, took a pill, snorted a medication and smoked marijuana, the witness told investigators.
About 7 a.m., medical personnel were called for help after blood was seen coming from Ochoa’s nose and mouth, the report says.
She was flown by medical helicopter to a Mesa hospital, where she was pronounced dead.”

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