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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would approach the parents and tell them that you are helping them to save their child's life but you don't want to risk the relationship with your own child.  I would tell them to keep your daughters identity confidential, it's not an important factor anyway.  [/quote]

This, OP, this.

Don't let your daughter's teenage reasoning influence you to keep silent, OP. Your daughter is naïve (be glad she is, in this case) because she seems to feel that she doesn't need to tell an adult since these kids are "just messing around" so far. She is trying to give her friends room to experiment and she's trying not to be a narc, but honestly, she's a kid, and will have zero idea if someone's "about to OD." She won't be there with them when it happens. She likely won't know if a friend is dealing, unless that friend tries to deal to her or starts flashing cash. And she won't know what addiction really looks like, or how well some addicts can hide addiction from their friends.

I would [u]not[/u] say these things to your daughter, because she'll feel insulted that you're basically saying, you're a kid and don't know what you're doing here. There is no point right now in getting her mad and having her clam up and stop telling you things.

But think on it yourself -- [u]you[/u] know that just messing around is reason enough to tell the parents.

It only takes one time of messing around to end up dead. That's not just a scare-tactic statement. A girl from our area ended up dead in someone's yard after her very first try with heroin killed her and her "friends" panicked, drove her body back to her town and dumped her. Not suburban legend; it was all over the news. With hard drugs, one time can be all it takes. Imagine if one of these friends ends up dead and you knew something you didn't ever tell the parents while the kid was still alive to be helped?

I totally get the idea that you don't want to betray a confidence, but this is a potential life or death situation.[/quote]

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