Finding Help For Child Hooked On Drugs Difficult; County Has Programs But People Unaware

ELKHART -- Dawn Waggoner wanted her son to get into trouble with the law.

The way she saw it, being put on probation was the only way her son, Chris Waggoner, could get a referral into rehab to help kick his drug habit.

"It's pretty bad when you want your kid to get nailed in court," she said.

She accepts the 15-year-old would have found a way to use drugs, but she believes he might not have died April 19 if she had been able to find him help.

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