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Selfs laerskoolleerders word nou vasgevang in di\u00e9 greep van verslawing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S\u00f3 s\u00ea Dolores de Vos, voorsitter van die Turning Point Development Centre wat by die Kamesh polisiestasie gevestig is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die sentrum doen bewusmaking oor die gevare van dwelmgebruik sowel as berading- en motiveringsessies vir verslaafdes \u00e9n getraumatiseerde familielede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hulle besoek ook skole om met leerders oor die gevare van dwelms te praat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns word oorval deur mense wat aan-klop vir hulp omdat hulle nie weet hoe om hulle kinders of ander familielede, wat dwelmverslaafdes is, te hanteer nie,\u201d s\u00ea Dolores, wat \u2019n seun aan die dood afgestaan het weens sy dwelmgebruik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEk het ook nie geweet hoe om my kind se verslawing te hanteer nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit was hel. Hy het my hart gebreek. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOp 28-jarige ouderdom het hy gesterf as gevolg van dwelms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSy o\u00eb moes toegaan sodat ek tot die besef kon kom hoe om ander se o\u00eb oop te maak vir die verskrikking van dwelmverslawing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turning Point vrywilligers word deur al meer ouers gevra om tuisbesoeke te doen om met hulle kinders te praat oor die gevare van dwelmgebruik en die vernietigende gevolge van verslawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die sentrum werk hand-aan-hand met die Kamesh Victim Support Centre, waarheen hulle familielede verwys wat slagoffers van geweld en mishandeling word weens ander familielede se dwelmgebruik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWat di\u00e9 sosiale euwel vererger, is dat daar slegs een staatsgesubsidieerde rehabilitasiesentrum in die Oos-Kaap is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit is Fort England in Makandha, wat stampvol is,\u201d s\u00ea Dolores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns help waar ons kan en bied ses-weeklikse konsultasies aan vir verslaafdes wat skoon wil kom. Maar as die ses weke verby is, is daar nie verdere intensiewe hulp vir hulle nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Samantha Pearce, \u2019n vrywilliger betrokke by Turning Point s\u00ea, \u201cDit is belangrik om agter te kom wat die kernrede is hoe-kom \u2019n persoon dwelms begin gebruik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs dit ge\u00efdentifiseer word, kan \u2019n mens die pad stap met iemand wat w\u00edl rehabiliteer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOns help ouers, want hulle weet nie hoe om \u2019n kind te hanteer wat verslaaf is nie. Om kwaad te raak en te baklei, gaan nie help nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n <b>\u2018My keuses het my lewe vernietig\u2019<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bevan Wilson, eens self \u2019n verslaafde wat by die dood omgedraai het weens sy leefstyl, is betrokke by Turning Point as \u2019n vrywillige berader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hy s\u00ea hy wil verslaafdes help om by die keerpunt in hulle lewe te kom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs \u2019n verslaafde gehelp wil word, moet hy of sy eerlik wees met hom- of haarself en die berader. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDaar is altyd \u2019n rede hoe-kom jy met dwelms begin, maar \u2019n verslaafde ontken altyd dat hy of sy \u2019n probleem het.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy keuses het my lewe vernietig. Ek was vir tien jaar in die tronk. Ek het alles verloor. Maar die pad wat my vrou geloop het, het uiteindelik tot my redding bygedra.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Destony Grobbelaar k\u00e9n die hartseer van \u2019n ouer wanneer \u2019n kind vasgevang is in dwelms, daarom help sy ook vrywilliglik by Turning Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<span>Tough Love<\/span> is wat \u2019n ouer moet toepas as jou kind \u2019n verslaafde is. 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