ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A case this past weekend, involving a 14-year-old Anchorage girl who overdosed after the man hosting a party injected her with heroin, left a lot of Alaskans shocked that such a crime could happen in their community, but local substance abuse treatment experts say they weren't too surprised.
The word on the streets is that not only are a lot of young girls using drugs, they're using a wide variety of them.
"I've had a lot of girls here lately who have tried the Oxycontin, who have tried the heroin, methadone has popped up where a lot of kids are using methadone to get high," said Kelly Eggleston, clinical director at the Salvation Army’s Booth Memorial Home, an Anchorage substance abuse treatment center for girls age 12-18.
"I think for me probably the most disturbing thing we're seeing is the rates of their drug use," Eggleston said.
