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Merv commented on the article |
Yes, Jillian I agree, my plan is no instant fix. It is long term but I also know that it is the only long term workable plan I can think of that will finally turn the situation around. Even if slow I do know it works when done well. I wish it was a quick fix but the epidemic has been developing for many, many years so I can’t see any quick fix for it.
Maybe some of your ideas can act as a stop gap until we can get kids and people to get a kick out of life just as people. We find that, without exception, all the clients we get through our rehab come out with a zest for living like they once had before they got hooked. This is because we don’t just dry them out but we rehab their life too and help them find and face the problem that led them into drugs in the first place. It’s a total rehab. Sorry for the commercial but it is only to make the point not to get business.
Thank you for the kind “noble” compliment but it is not from any noble cause I operate, just rational sense and observation of what the rehabilitated clients say and what they then go out and accomplish in life. This is a joy to behold.
Some other user has made a comment and accused me of coming from a moral angle which of course I do not claim and even with the greatest stretch of interpretation can’t be read into my writings. This dramatically and completely proves my point that drugs causes confusion in the mind and the inability to understand and think clearly.
I am truly sorry about all the people whose lives will be cut short for the lack of a one shot fix. The sadness of it is we never got to the people early enough with some true data on the damage drugs do and the PR campaigns of the pushers made it first and have been very effective, such is the power of marketing.
I remember reading an article that was written in the 60’s about this great psychiatrist who had discovered LSD for use as the greatest wonder drug of all time and everybody should take it because it made then feel so great. It was even said to cure alcoholism. The point is it addled the person’s mind and from what I have read about psychiatrists that would be just down their ally. More to the point is it never made any artist produce any better art than they could or did as a sane person. Mind altering drugs alter the mind for goodness sakes, this is what they do. To pretend that they have no effect is a complete oxymoron and boy is that good word to describe a user especially the second syllable. Good luck with your plan.
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Merv commented on the article |
The justifications that users and addicts come up with to try to make their habit “legal” are never ending. They get into all sorts of arguments about prisons and dollars and dealers to shift the attention away from their habit.
“It doesn’t do me any harm” is probably one of the favorites. A totally stupid statement as they never notice any difference within themselves so think that nothing has changed. There is a very measurable physical difference in their body never mind the difference in their ability to be rational.
“I enjoy it” follows this pretty closely which is an admission that there was already something wrong with their “normal” state that they had to escape from because playing games, sports or just engaging in pleasurable activities no longer provided any excitement.
All this kind of talk is of course wasted on those that are hooked. This is because the drugs have already altered their mind and rationale and there is no way for them to see it when they are in it.
The only hope for a reduction in drug use is to provide some true data about drugs in a non threatening way for the person to inspect, consider and decide for themselves. Some will see it, some others won’t. Nothing ever works 100%. As long as we can keep the majority sane, strong and with decent values we will still have a workable society that can afford to look after the weak and the sick.
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Merv commented on the article |
You completely miss the point.
The drug situation comes from an earlier problem.
All this focus on the drug problem totally misses the real problem because the drug thing is too late on the chain of events that caused the drug situation.
It always starts off with some earlier problem that the person is struggling with that drugs are a solution to.
It can be bad school grades, fights at home, conflicts with peers, emotional upsets with friends or enemies, weak self-respect, and a lot of times boredom and the need for excitement.
No sane, happy person truly succeeding in life turns to drugs such is the stupidity of taking them. The person always has a problem of some kind beforehand. Hundreds and hundreds of people we have rehabbed tell the same story.
The only solution to resolving the drug scene is via proper education, not weirdo scare drama dramatics or useless “dangers of drugs” campaigns.
Getting to kids early enough before the promoters and getting them to understand what drugs are all about is workable as we prove at every school presentation. But even this is not enough on its own. It also needs to be accompanied with help in the other areas such as study problems, friendship problems, getting along with others and most of all helping the individual to discover and/or revitalise their goals and purposes in life so they do not have time to be bored. Everyone has something in which they are or once was interested, many times they are buried by invalidation and ridicule from others. Kids can be very cruel to their own in this area and make others withdraw into a shell. Drugs can become very attractive to a person wiped out by their peers.
Get working in these areas and you will remove the need, interest, reason and desire for drugs and the pushers will have no customers and that is the end of the drug problem in all but for the really stupid. And nobody can save them. One hundred percent solutions to anything are not obtainable. Solutions for the majority certainly are and they are really worth going after.
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