period's got to

understand that the influence of that machine, that computer on our kids is immeasurable.

We have a highest rate of depression ever, both Boys and girls 12 to 17, over 50% say they're depressed regularly.

They have a lot of outside things coming at them, and parents have to realize that they are getting marketed to in the legal marijuana industry and illegal drug industry.

Every kid's a few clicks away from buying things.

On Amazon, by the way, they can click, how do I hide my drugs in my room? and they'll go to a site that has fake shampoo bottles or fake water bottles.

They can go a little deeper on other websites, and they will tell them, you know, hide it behind the toilet or in a shoe or in a pocket of an old coat or wherever it may be.

Is that from the parent's perspective?

And

I tell them, if you think your child's getting, um, You're probably right.

And if you think you know how much, triple it.

And then you'll be closer to the use.

And my message often to dads is believe what the mom is feeling.

Or dads often, and I was a law enforcement for many, many years.

And what are you trying to do? Come across a problem, take care of the problem real quick.

something is

Wow

... need to understand what this is.

Parents need to educate themselves to educate their kids.

And, um, you know, it's, uh, there's 7-O, and it gets very complicated.

There's, you know, of the chemicals in kratom, and the kratom industry right now is telling us, "Hey, we're taking out 7-O," which is 7-hydroxy-mit- mitragynine, right? But let's get away from that.

It's almost like the cigarette companies back in the '60s told us, "Hey, we're, we're gonna, we s- w- we're gonna make our product healthier, so we're gonna go to a more low-tar, low-nicotine cigarette and put filters." Well, we know how that ended up.

And it's kind of-

Just A-I-K.

Phew.

Uh, 1.25 million since then.

It's obviously not working.

I I talk about it in my book where I had the phone numbers of my partners, DEA, ATF, FBI, lawyers, treatment centers, counselors, mentors, um, school staff.

I...

My phone was filled with people dealing with the substance abuse problem.

I was working three or four cases, uh, drug cases at the time when I got the phone call that my brother had died.

All right, my friend, Dave, um, if parents listening right now, all right, somebody's out there listening, suspects their child may be using drugs but may feel frightened, ashamed, not even sure, uh, unprepared, not sure what to do, what can they do today?