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Post by oregonelephant on Oct 21, 2007 22:29:43 GMT -6
Many times, children don't want to believe that their parents might know best. Many people start to experiment when they are at the age of breaking away from their parents. When a friend they believe that they can trust tells them something different then their parents, they often go with that one friend to experiment. "I'll just try it once, it isn't right to believe something is bad without trying it first (like my parents make me do with food)." Then, after the frist drug use (most likely pot or alcohol), they don't feel like it has any perminate negitive effects, so it must be safe to try again, and then they are hooked and have a hard time trying to get out.
A lot of the time it isn't depression, it is a single "friend" that shouldn't be a friend to begin with, and the drug use leads to degression.
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Post by Ranjith arun on Nov 25, 2007 6:09:28 GMT -6
As Mr. OE said, Curiosity and Vile situations around them are the main reasons.
Every one is curious about a thing which they aren't well known, Especially if it is fascinating. So the single "friend" who makes it known to an youth is the culprit actually.
and if the Youth is feeble in his mind, even if he is innocent in his thoughts, is "forced" or "given a way " to pervert.
Only "THE PARENTS" can help an youth to be strong in his mind, by clearing his doubts regarding Drugs if he has some or by explaining the evil things underneath the fascination. Again if not done in right way, may have chance to encourage a lad to try drugs.
So I think we have to teach all Parents about Bringing up off-springs, sound in mind.
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Post by kingorseolo on Dec 24, 2007 1:14:24 GMT -6
I am kind of surprised by a lot of the responses I've seen here. I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but a lot of those responses seem typical of people without first or second hand experiences with addiction. I can say for myself and the thousand of others I have met with the disease of addiction, that very few ever started using in order to rebel against their parents, or seem "cool" in front of their friends. Instead, the vast majority do it to fill a hole that has been with them for the near entirety of their lives, either as a genetic predetermination as medical science says, or as a plug to fill a hole left during their childhood's by how their parents brought them up. My point here is that addiction chooses people, not that people choose to have addictions. And as someone who considers myself a strong Libertarian, I'm not one to usually put the burden of ones problems on anyone but the individual.
With that said, drug abusers can be some of the most kind, interesting, creative people I have ever met. People with the disadvantage of an addiction appeal to me more as a human than those who think they're faultless, usually the type who look down on others easily. The fact is, the government has no right to determine which drugs should be legal and which illegal. The current stance most countries governments take on illicit substances is totally counter productive, and I've known too young families where the parents sell a minor drug like weed on top of working two jobs to support their child, only to get narc'd on and have their entire familie's livelihood's put in jepordy. The government has no right to tell anyone what they can or can't put in their bodies, and this was to American government's policy from its conception to about 1900, when everything changed and the true, ever idiotic "War on drugs" began. Nothing has done more to exacerbate drug use than the war on drugs itself.
Sometimes I love my country. Sometimes I hate it.
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Post by Zach on Dec 24, 2007 10:46:54 GMT -6
Great post kingorseolo! Thanks for your responce, we definately needed a first-hand experience. Thanks again and Karma for you!
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Post by Zach on Sept 17, 2008 18:29:15 GMT -6
Lets open this discussion back again! In your country, do many teens do drugs? (legal or illegal) Do any of your friends/family do drugs? What are the tobacco companies like in your country? Is Marijuana legal? What are the laws concerning illegal drugs?
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Post by travisboddie on Sept 27, 2008 18:54:46 GMT -6
with all respect let me say this <br> Teens take drugs because of people like us the people who can't understand there reasoning for that cry of help. By not giving the guidance or the nonexistence of things for them to do they lead to the streets. Yes, in some ways it is a cry for help but it also is to show you that the world is not picture perfect. For one second look at yourself.... What makes your happy? People sometimes don't take the opportunity they have and use them for the best while there are others who will never see the opportunity we complain about. We argue and get made because we don't like the food someone cook... What about the person who wish they were eating....
Every day there is someone in need of our help Do you stop or look at them as someone that you could carless about many of u may lie but most u know don't give a time of day to the people that hurting so every time someone stick a needle or do drugs BLAME YOURSELF I BLAME MYSELF becuz wat were we doing to make a difference in there life
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