Drug abuse . Children had varied opinions regarding the cost of drugs ranging from as little as R5-10 to R100's. Nonetheless, in order to feed the addiction often children would resort to stealing money from their family to stealing household items to sell in order to buy drugs. Children lie about needing money for school so they use that to buy drugs. Parents are so keen to have the children succeed at school that they will give anything. . Sometimes children use household products e.g. glue. They start from there and crave for something stronger eventually. . Another popular drug is a mixture of ARVs and heroine. . To support the habit, users of this drug rob people, break into houses. Merchants pay the police and then they won't get arrested. Children are selling tik and Cat (a sniffing drug) at schools for R50 or R60 a bag. . The most common drug was dagga. Nyaope is not very common. Antiretrovirals are mixed with ratex even steel-wool and other common drugs to increase the potency. Children also explained how plasma television screens are damaged in order to retrieve the powder inside which is then mixed with dagga and smoked. Because dagga can be used as indigenous medicine, children buy from traditional healers merely indicating that it is being bought for healing purposes. . Incidents were also relayed about girls prostituting themselves for money to buy drugs. . Merchants use children to sell drugs in and around schools. . The lack of in-patient drug rehabilitation centres and out-patient assistance is problematic as parents cannot always afford to pay for private therapy or have transport money in order to access a service far away. Most of these centres only cater for adults and not children. . Access to drugs at school is easily available. Dagga is sold in schools. Even though random searchers are done, the children who sell drugs normally know where to hide it. With that, certain students have certain relationships with teachers, so they get teachers to hide drugs and in turn teachers are paid. Hence, many teachers contribute to the drug problem within schools by being bribed or colluding with children that sell drugs. . Children reiterated that police corruption exacerbates the drug problems in communities as many police officers collude with drug dealers. Police are also on drugs and then obtain drugs from drug merchants. . The root causes of drug usage need to be addressed - like unstable family situations and poverty. Domestic violence families are another root cause for drug usage that is not addressed well. Challenges faced by single parents to deal with children abusing drugs.