The drug challenge for school kids in Canada today appears to be, not so much shady dealers in cocaine, or pushers of heroin hovering around the schoolyard, but the alcohol and drugs to be found in the family home, and the all pervasive “soft” drug marijuana. The facts about drugs in schools is that most drugs sold and exchanged in schools are sourced from family and friends, medical drugs that are widely used and prescribed, and to be found in the family home.
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In sixteen years working as one of several Dallas dentists considered the best in our city, I never drank on the job or otherwise met with a patient or worked on a mouth when under the influence of drugs. Yet my addiction to alcohol and cocaine was there for the majority of those sixteen years. [...]
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Dear Teenagers, I am writing you this letter to inform you about my life and how it spiraled out of control by using drugs and getting involved with the bad crowd. The first drug I have tried was marijuana, I tried it with a group of friends at the age of thirteen. I then began [...]
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What Narconon is asking government agencies to do is to accept and acknowledge that complete recovery from substance abuse and addictive drugs is not only possible, but indeed is proven to occur when people use appropriate programs. Where governments fail dismally in their duty towards their increasingly drug addicted populations, is in failing to support and enable people to use effective drug recovery programs. Just as in a home, where you have a mother and father committing child abuse, there is much denial of fault and intense resistance to any form of outside intervention that would upset the power dynamics that support the status quo.
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While many people who have smoked marijuana may appear calm and “mellow”, their heart rate has increased greatly, as has their pulse. Their eyes become bloodshot and a dry mouth is very common. Marijuana also can damage short-term memory
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Neither alcoholism nor substance (drug) abuse is a disease. In recent years, it has become a popular theory that both are diseases and the addict himself is ‘sick’ with addiction. This line of thought gives the alcoholic/addict an easy out—they can’t help their drinking or using drugs because they are sick. The truth is both alcohol and drugs are addictive; the user wants and needs more and more of his abused substance. Both actually do affect the user’s brain, but it is not a brain disease.
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Some of the following facts are shocking and some are sad but they are all a part of the statistical (and real) data concerning drug and alcohol addiction.
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According to the 2009 World Drug Report released last week by the United Nations Office on Drug Abuse. It has given different information showing Marijuana potency has changed drastically since the 1970′s.
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