Thousands of children across the country are living in the dangerous world of drugs.

Unfortunately today most drug endangered children are rescued only after law enforcement takes action against their drug using, selling or manufacturing parents. But there are ways all of us can help these children from continuing to be victims caught in the crossfire of meth abuse.

"Part of it is breaking that chain, getting them into this whole separate track and hopefully changing their life," said David Forsythe, a Special Narcotics Agent with the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

Like one from Northcentral Wisconsin changed hers.

Angel Fremming is 20-years-old. She’s aspiring to be a police officer and she currently works as a security guard. She’s doing amazingly well.

"I graduated high school before everyone else in my class and I got doubted all my life," Angel said.

Why?

When you stroll back a few years, you see she has a mug shot, she’s a recovering drug user and a former gang member.

Angel is a drug endangered child.

She grew up in a home where her dad and step-mother used and manufactured methamphetamine.

Growing up she went through a lot. She was neglected, she was abused, and she watched both her parents go to prison.

Now she’s working with Wisconsin’s Alliance for Drug Endangered Children to prevent other little ones from going through everything she and too many other children did.

All she and the Drug Endangered Children Team are asking is for you to be aware that little ones caught in the crossfire are out there, and there are signs.

"Maybe you've got this child that you think is just sleeping in class. Maybe it's not that the kid's bored and doesn't like school and that's why he sleeps,” Forsythe said. “Maybe it is because he or she is taking care of a brother and they’re a drug endangered child - that their parents are sleeping away for days at a time."

"I never concentrated in school either when this was going on because I'd always think about what's going on at home right now," Angel said.

So pay attention, dig a little deeper and help stop children from falling into a cycle of drug abuse.

If you think someone in your community is using or manufacturing methamphetamine and a child may be in danger, call your local law enforcement agency immediately.

Click on the link below to find out what suspicious activities indicate meth may be in your neighborhood.