Drug addiction

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_addiction

There are lots of differing view points on this for one i can say that from this experience one must at least go there before they can know what it is about, i have never been one for sitting on the edge listening to others but then some folks are just weak.In my eyes it really comes down to that voice inside your head, if you cant hear that voice then there is some problems coming, i think it is important for people to understand there bodies. Drugs are tools to help you on this path, that is the truth,they show you ways of thinking that can heal.
The flip side is always bad thats where you have to learn to listen and everyone is different any thought peace

[Green Supreme]

Must admit I am addicted to caffeine. Maybe one day I will overcome my addiction. Peace GS

[c-ray]

I have a weakness for chocolate, I think I fell off the wagon last night

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http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2007/02/05/SafeSite/

[Green Supreme]

Chocolate, don't get me started. Peace GS

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from http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/ob/opinion/column/story/3866202p-4473329c.html

D.A.R.E. program shows students how to make good life choices

Kids Speak Out, School News
Feb 2, 2007
by Cecilia Stuart, Grade 5, St. Vincent, Oakville Ontario

Do you like to play truth or dare? If you do, you will love D.A.R.E. It stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and teaches Grade 6 students how to make good life choices.

Okay, so maybe it's not the same as truth or dare but it's just as good.

D.A.R.E. was founded in Los Angeles in 1983 by a group of police officers. These officers are trained as coaches who teach kids to say no to drugs and smoking.

Officers use brain imagery to show students the bad effects of drugs on the brain.

Children are smoking at much younger ages than you would like to believe and this program can help kids turn away.

Why will kids do drugs? Teens can resort to drugs because of peer pressure, stress, abuse or just to feel "cool".

Scientists have found more than 50 reasons for why kids do drugs (e.g. weak family structure), but there are two common paths that lead to drug use: one is to feel good or be cool, this is called "self medicating," the other is to reduce stress like abuse or poverty or just to feel normal.

What's happening with teens and their parents? Most parents are afraid to talk to their teens, so if those teens had taken D.A.R.E., it would be easier for everyone.

Parents have the right to be concerned about their child because drugs are now illegally sold to young people.

What can parents do? If they suspect their child is using drugs, they must talk to them as soon as possible.

If their child can reach the age of 20 without using drugs, they will most likely not become addicted.

Remember; if your child is using drugs don't be afraid to get professional help!

Nicholas Oswald, a Grade 6 student from St. Vincent School was asked about D.A.R.E.

He said that the program "teaches us how to handle and resist drugs and teaches very important lessons that will help us in the future, and I will certainly not do drugs. We learned how to make good decisions. We learn not to smoke, use drugs and drink alcohol. We learn why they are addictive and we learn about peer pressure and how it can be used positively and negatively."

To complete the program you must have your D.A.R.E. planner filled out, have not taken illegal drugs or smoked during the program, you must write an essay about what you learned in D.A.R.E., how you feel about it and why it's important.

D.A.R.E. has continued to expand since 1983. There are programs in all of the 50 states and in all of the provinces, with the exception of Quebec. D.A.R.E is now taught as a follow up in high school.

Where would we be without D.A.R.E.? It helps children in many parts of the world to understand that drug use can permanently affect their life.

[stopthemadness]

I am so absolutely f#$%ing tired of all the addiction BS. This generation wants to completely anhiliate all notion of personal acountability. Its really very simple. Humans have will. Those who find themselves addicted are addicted because they will to be addicted. Whether conscious or subconscious, they want the escape, the peacefulness, the whatever. It used to be that the demands of life and strife for ideals snapped people out of this mentality and made them reach beyond the quick escape, but these days many live for the escape and do not try to get beyond immediate satisfaction. We have come to expect immediate satisfaction and success to be handed to us instead of having to work to build happiness in our lives.

Haven't you noticed that some people who want to quit smoking cigarettes turn to gums and patches and basically never quit while others DECIDE to quit and they do? Unfortunatey we have raised a generation of mostly spineless imbeciles who follow TV's caricature of the blundering idiot male and dependent woman. If there were not such profitability in products that treat addiction, we would not even be discussing this.

Sorry, just needed to poop that out....


-stopthemadness

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good post^^^

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from http://www.haltonsearch.com/hr/bp/story/3866231p-4473441c.html

Halton teens suggest renaming Weedless Wednesday
Feb 2, 2007

The Halton Youth Action Alliance (HYAA) is working to get the title of the annual quit smoking day -- Weedless Wednesday -- changed for 2008.

The group believes the title is misinterpreted by youth and is drawing attention to marijuana. In early January, the HYAA surveyed 56 youth aged 13 to 18 in Halton to explore their understanding and awareness of the term Weedless Wednesday. The results of the survey indicated that:

# 95 per cent hadn't heard of Weedless Wednesday

# 88 per cent didn't think the title Weedless Wednesday represented the ideas behind the day

# 81 per cent thought the day had to do with marijuana.

The group sent a letter to the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC) that identified their concerns on the issue and included results of the survey and some suggestions for alternative titles such as QUIT (Quit Using It Today), TGIF (Tobacco Goes Invisible Friday) and Wheezeless Wednesday.

National Non-Smoking Week and Weedless Wednesday are co-ordinated by the CCTC. The public education campaign takes place during the third week of January and has been running since 1977.

Weedless Wednesday is a day set aside during National Non-Smoking Week to encourage people to have a smoke-free day. The idea behind the day is to promote a one-day-at-a-time approach to quitting smoking.

The youth alliance will be following-up with the CCTC to discuss the recommendations. The group suggested in its letter that a contest be held in high schools across the country to come up with an alternative title for Weedless Wednesday.

The HYAA is comprised of 21 high school youth employed by Halton Region to support youth tobacco prevention efforts in the community.

"It is of great value that we have the peer leaders on staff to assist us in making sure the health messages we are promoting are clear to all Halton residents including youth," said Halton Medical Officer of Health Dr. Bob Nosal.

For more information on the HYAA call 905-825-6000 or visit www.halton.ca.

[stopthemadness]

Now THAT's funny! Weedless Wednesday. Not to be confused with Topless Tuesday or Felony-Free Friday!

The fact that there is so much concern about drawing attention to marijuana demonstrates my point. Wealthy naive parents want to believe that their sons and daughters need "Weedless Wednesday" in order to hear about marijuana as much as they "know" their kids have not been pressured to have sex by age sixteen. Preaching ignorance to avoid drawing attention to marijuana...that's rich!


-stopthemadness

[lazi]

Television has been selling drugs to children for many years.

Eating the correct bread makes a 9 year old strong enough to lift a large man.

A chocolate bar that has you running faster than a horse.

Peanut butter that has you hitting a baseball so hard it bounces off a satellite.

Another chocolate treat that gets you sooooo mellow it must be laced with pot.

A breakfast cereal so addictive that an otherwise responsible adult will risk the public humiliation of being caught stealing it.

Children get fed this consumerist dogma day in, day out. Then they get told once or twice 'Just say no'. Say no to what? Taking stuff to feel better is what it's all about, the TV says so every single day so it must be true.

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lol!! ^^

[capt carnuba]

When All Drugs Were Legal....There Wasn't a Drugs Problem


LewRockwell.com
February 3, 2005
by Harry Browne

Few people are aware that before World War I, a 9-year-old girl could walk into a drug store and buy heroin.

That's right - heroin. She didn't need a doctor's prescription or a note from her parents. She could buy it right off the shelf. Bayer and other large drug companies sold heroin as a pain-reliever and sedative in measured doses - just the way aspirin is sold today. Cocaine, opium, and marijuana were readily available as well. No Drug Enforcement Agency, no undercover cops, no "Parents - the Anti-Drug" commercials. Just people going about their own business is whatever way they chose.

Seeing today's never-ending crisis of teenagers using drugs, you can imagine how bad it must have been when there were no laws to stop children - or adults - from using drugs. But, in fact, there was no drug crisis at all. A few people were addicted to heroin or cocaine, just as a few people today are addicted to sleeping pills or Big Macs, but there was no national uproar about it. Such people, if they wanted to break their habits, could freely consult doctors without fear of being sent to prison.

There were no black-market drug dealers preying on school children. There were no gang wars over drug profits, because there were no drug gangs. After all, who would buy dangerous drugs from a gangster at outrageous prices when he could buy safe drugs made by a reputable drug company at modest prices?

Americans got a taste of what a Drug War might be like when they endorsed the 18th Amendment invoking alcohol Prohibition in 1919. The result was gang warfare, people dying from drinking bathtub gin, corruption in police departments, and non-violent citizens sent to prison for indulging in a vice that was strictly personal. Most Americans rejoiced when Prohibition was repealed in 1933. The chances of them supporting another such Constitutional amendment within the next 50 years were slim to none.

So the federal government didn't dare try amending the Constitution when politicians and bureaucrats decided to reinstate all the trappings of Prohibition in a new Drug War. This War That Will Never End was begun in stages - probably starting with the rarely-enforced Harrison Act of 1914. In my recollection, the Drug War as we know it today began during the 1960s, moved into second and third gears during the Nixon administration of 1969-1974, and shifted into overdrive during the Reagan administration of 1981-1989.

The Drug War has been easily the greatest cause of violent crime in American history: Gangs fighting over monopoly territories, children killed in drive-by shootings, families in the inner city living with the constant sound of gunfire outside their doors, police killing innocent people in misguided drug raids, crooked cops helping to spread poisonous drugs, non-violent citizens sent to prison to be terrorized by violent prisoners - none of which would exist in the absence of the federal drug laws.

There is nothing that could make our cities safer than repealing the drug laws - all of them.

Does the idea of heroin, cocaine, and opium being sold over the counter sound too ludicrous to be true? You can check it out for yourself. A marvelous website, maintained by the University of Buffalo's Addiction Research Unit, shows the actual labels and ads from patent medicines of the 19th and early-20th centuries. You can see the claims made, the ingredients used, and the acceptance of what so many Americans fear today.

That era of innocence didn't end because America was threatened by a drug crisis. It was ended in the traditional way - by politicians looking for new worlds to conquer, politicians who have no interest in examining dispassionately the chaos they cause, and who will never face a single personal consequence for the lives they have ruined.

[capt carnuba]

Educate yourself to history and realize where we are needlessly being reeducated into selfcensorship for the profit of a few.

http://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm

[Parabola]

great posts capt.

it's not about drugs its about personal responsibility and freedom.

don't wait for the state or politicians to correct it. anarchy is the only answer

[justcurios]

Damn!!!!!!!

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until they make it legal it is my personal duty to smoke as much as possible

[stopthemadness]

Great post, capt.

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