The mother of two children, after 14 years, decides to quit drugs

For a woman who abuses narcotics, there is no easy period, and every stage of her life at that time is very difficult. So says Jehona (the known name for editorialism), which has been at 17 years of age, has begun abusing heroin drugs.

She has been addicted to heroin for 14 years, although during this period she had become a mother and had two children.

Her husband, who after giving birth to her children, was also an abuser of heroin. Her children do not live with their mother or father, since the Center for Social Work has decided that they will live with their grandparents.

Jehona relates how she had begun becoming addicted to drugs.

I started using narcotics too early and immediately started with heroin drugs. I started using it once a month, but then I went to that stage that I had to get four to five times a day of heroin. I started working young and had money, but it wasn't the right place to spend the money”.

I had two years before I got pregnant, and I had two twin babies. But then I resumed heroin abuse. In the meantime, I'm separated from my husband. Children live with grandparents, parents of ex-husband”It tells Jehona.

Because of the children, he had decided to leave this bad habit, but it was his ex-wife who had brought him back into this game. It reveals the reasons:

The reason I started taking heroin was that the ex-husband even abused drugs. Since he was unemployed and I worked, to secure the heroin for him too, he forced me to resume taking heroin. That was why I was later separated from that”.

Jehona, although for the second time she has tried to break free from drugs, has been very difficult because she had been addicted to heroin for 14 years.

She says that without the help of field professionals, this would not have been accomplished. It now receives services at the Medico-Psycochoerapeusetic Centre “Labyrint”

I've been asking for help at the Lebyrint Center for a year. Even though I tried to pull myself out of drugs, I haven't succeeded, it's been hard. My decision to come here to the center, to ask for help, has been fair, since I am now in a minimum dose and I soon believe I will be thoroughly cleared. I'm fine now”She says.

In Kosovo, an estimated 25 thousand users of narcotics are estimated. About five thousand of them are considered to be active users of various narcotics, say officials from the Medico-Psycochocepeucic Centre “Labyrint”

According to them, the drug that has marked the increase in use in recent years is marijuana, which is also being used by children aged 12 and 15.

Safet Blakaj from the Medico-Psycoterapeusetic Centre “Labyrint” tells Radio Free Europe that cocaine use, as a narcotics substance, is also marking growth.

“Kokaina has scored rapid use growth in Kosovo, while the type of heroin drugs continues to mark the decline in use by people”, Blakaj suggests.

But Jehona has an order for citizens:

My “Porossis is not for young people, but for the parents of children to be more vigilant and if they see something in their child, seek help in adequate places. The sooner help is required is easier to withdraw from this bad habit”.

Jehona also points to how drug abusers have been very difficult, but the very fact that she was a woman made the situation even more difficult.

It's pretty hard for women, because how to wake up in the morning is the first thing you think about getting drugs. If you don't have money, you have to go out on the street or find yourself and steal. For a woman, it's an extraordinary challenge.

Otherwise, the use of heroin-type narcotics has recently marked a decline in use by Kosovo's youth, unlike other countries of the world, where it is said to have increased its use.

A letter from Radio Free Europe.