Showing posts with label drug abuse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drug abuse. Show all posts
20140204
Methamphetamine Use Trouble Spots (satire)
Depicted above are cities where methamphetamine has been reported as a problem.
If you live in these cities, then you might have met or seen a lot of people high on meth. YMMV
If you don't then that does not mean your country does not have a meth problem.
Currently the trouble spots nationally are the Philippines and Canada (see graphic below).
The above information merely charts mention of meth busts in cities and regions globally.
It is likely that if you are not a recreational drug user then you will not experience a problem with meth users or even meet a tweaker looking for meth crystals on the sidewalk while doing the "meth dance."
Here is the first of a series of three videos of Shane Nasty, the meth dancing bum:
On this youtube page to the right are other examples of meth addicts to peruse.
My conclusion on the matter of recreational meth use is that with the addictive personality, crystal meth is worse than crack cocaine or heroin. YMMV
However, psychiatrists routine prescribe methamphetamine or amphetamine for children with ADHD who rarely become drug addicts because they treat their medication responsibly. Though, people with undiagnosed ADHD have a high risk to self-medicate with alcohol and other substances of abuse. often, their self-medication may lead to drug abuse and a high risk of homelessness and poverty.
Thus methamphetamine is the post-modern day equivalent of chronic alcoholism, crack addiction, and heroin abuse.
My final word on the matter of meth abuse is, "Mmmm drugs (like alcohol, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine) are bad."
SMART PEOPLE DON'T DO DRUGS, BUT SOMETIMES SUPPOSEDLY SMART PEOPLE STUPIDLY MAKE BAD CHOICES LIKE DRUG ABUSE.
YMMV
Reference:
Worldwide trend on metamphetamine bought to you by Google: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0&q=Methamphetamine,&geo=&gprop=&cmpt=q
20131228
It's Not About the Drugs (satire)
Drug abuse is a health issue, not a legal one. It was only turned into a legal issue by the elites who blamed drug use after the 1960s on corrupting moral values, ignoring their role in creating the situation that led to increased drug use through the media.
The elites also blamed marijuana on Mexican immigrants and opium use on Chinese immigrants, so there is a racist element in the elites' demonization of drugs. Today, drug abuse has been associated with its side effect, homelessness, and thus has been the cause of poverty.
However, it is this dog-eat-dog world of competitiveness that is one causal factor in drug addiction. Additionally, drug abuse is a risk of which one of the causes is the increasing narcissism in society.
Just as there are fans of celebrities, there are fans of alcohol, caffeine, pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs, except that celebrity fandom only affects the pocketbook, whereas drug addiction is harmful not only in terms of money, but also to life and limb.
This is why you never ever see a poor person at a rock concert, because the money spent on a ticket could feed the poor for up to a week. As well, the average poor person is unlikely to become a drug addict. In fact, drug addiction is what puts the middle class into poverty.
If a poor person had a choice between drugs and a place to live, he'd choose a place to live. The myths about drug addiction are part of the overall plan of the elites to perpetuate class warfare between members of the middle class in a perverted form of social Darwinism that determines anyone who is rich is worthy of respect, despite the fact that most rich elites who profit immensely from the suffering of others are only de facto elites. For the only people who respect them are not their peers but a criminal lower in the social hierarchy. Overall, a poor person only fears drugs, because they prevent him from keeping that place to live.
It makes more sense if a working class person has a few beers and perhaps smokes occasionally. Both alcohol and cigarettes are legal drugs. However, the extremes of drug abuse dictate that loss of inhibition caused by alcohol might lead to soft drug use but common sense dictates that hard drug use is the result of risky behavior that places the future drug addict on a path of no return.
Yet drug addiction is not a path but a side effect of a person's spiral into poverty, be it economic if his addiction prevents him from working or merely spiritual if he maintains an income stream to support his addiction.
In most cases of addiction, environment is a strong causal factor. As a fan, everything is focused on the celebrity including becoming a fan along with all that celebrity's adoring fans. Likewise, drug addicts seek out their fellow drug addicts. For we are social animals, and the risks of being a harm to self and others is worsened by the use of drugs alone.
If you chose a celebrity over your drug of choice, that would be safer but I would question the safety of a fan who chooses her celebrity of choice over also having a life outside her bedroom.
Likewise, the drug addict who hides out in her bedroom will soon be removing the smoke alarm to stop going off due to pot smoke. Ultimately the chronic will end up behaving strangely like a certain celebrity who I won't mention since her chronic phase was a distortion of her life before pot. Additionally, most of it was exaggerated by celebrity gossip columns and the paparazzi stalkers who are sometimes failures at being petty criminals. It would not even surprise me that there are bottom feeders in the world of celebrities who plan to profit from being insiders of celebrities, provided they know the vices of their intended "victim".
For a drug addiction is also a side effect of being a narcissist, who makes a drug of his choice a part of his lifestyle, a dangerous accessory of a lifestyle where everyone and almost everything else is but an accessory and basically a means to the end, a reflection of his life.
Once rehabilitated, the former drug addict still face his character disturbance known as narcissism. It will mean giving up former friends of that lifestyle in some cases, and in other cases, changing the dynamics of other friends.
Yet there is no known cure for drug addiction. Instead, the former addict comes to realize life is simpler and less chaotic sober, and many times more valuable than intoxication. Indeed, the hang-ups of sobriety keep us all safe and secure.
For addiction and abuse is not about the drugs at all. Rather it is about the person behind the cravings, a person who only sees the world filled with the accessories which make her feel safe and secure. It is a pity that in the midst of abuse, we forget how precious our inhibitions truly are.
The elites also blamed marijuana on Mexican immigrants and opium use on Chinese immigrants, so there is a racist element in the elites' demonization of drugs. Today, drug abuse has been associated with its side effect, homelessness, and thus has been the cause of poverty.
However, it is this dog-eat-dog world of competitiveness that is one causal factor in drug addiction. Additionally, drug abuse is a risk of which one of the causes is the increasing narcissism in society.
Just as there are fans of celebrities, there are fans of alcohol, caffeine, pharmaceuticals and illegal drugs, except that celebrity fandom only affects the pocketbook, whereas drug addiction is harmful not only in terms of money, but also to life and limb.
This is why you never ever see a poor person at a rock concert, because the money spent on a ticket could feed the poor for up to a week. As well, the average poor person is unlikely to become a drug addict. In fact, drug addiction is what puts the middle class into poverty.
If a poor person had a choice between drugs and a place to live, he'd choose a place to live. The myths about drug addiction are part of the overall plan of the elites to perpetuate class warfare between members of the middle class in a perverted form of social Darwinism that determines anyone who is rich is worthy of respect, despite the fact that most rich elites who profit immensely from the suffering of others are only de facto elites. For the only people who respect them are not their peers but a criminal lower in the social hierarchy. Overall, a poor person only fears drugs, because they prevent him from keeping that place to live.
It makes more sense if a working class person has a few beers and perhaps smokes occasionally. Both alcohol and cigarettes are legal drugs. However, the extremes of drug abuse dictate that loss of inhibition caused by alcohol might lead to soft drug use but common sense dictates that hard drug use is the result of risky behavior that places the future drug addict on a path of no return.
Yet drug addiction is not a path but a side effect of a person's spiral into poverty, be it economic if his addiction prevents him from working or merely spiritual if he maintains an income stream to support his addiction.
In most cases of addiction, environment is a strong causal factor. As a fan, everything is focused on the celebrity including becoming a fan along with all that celebrity's adoring fans. Likewise, drug addicts seek out their fellow drug addicts. For we are social animals, and the risks of being a harm to self and others is worsened by the use of drugs alone.
If you chose a celebrity over your drug of choice, that would be safer but I would question the safety of a fan who chooses her celebrity of choice over also having a life outside her bedroom.
Likewise, the drug addict who hides out in her bedroom will soon be removing the smoke alarm to stop going off due to pot smoke. Ultimately the chronic will end up behaving strangely like a certain celebrity who I won't mention since her chronic phase was a distortion of her life before pot. Additionally, most of it was exaggerated by celebrity gossip columns and the paparazzi stalkers who are sometimes failures at being petty criminals. It would not even surprise me that there are bottom feeders in the world of celebrities who plan to profit from being insiders of celebrities, provided they know the vices of their intended "victim".
For a drug addiction is also a side effect of being a narcissist, who makes a drug of his choice a part of his lifestyle, a dangerous accessory of a lifestyle where everyone and almost everything else is but an accessory and basically a means to the end, a reflection of his life.
Once rehabilitated, the former drug addict still face his character disturbance known as narcissism. It will mean giving up former friends of that lifestyle in some cases, and in other cases, changing the dynamics of other friends.
Yet there is no known cure for drug addiction. Instead, the former addict comes to realize life is simpler and less chaotic sober, and many times more valuable than intoxication. Indeed, the hang-ups of sobriety keep us all safe and secure.
For addiction and abuse is not about the drugs at all. Rather it is about the person behind the cravings, a person who only sees the world filled with the accessories which make her feel safe and secure. It is a pity that in the midst of abuse, we forget how precious our inhibitions truly are.
20130816
New Left and Addiction to Power (satire)
Over 10 years ago, the New Left certainly liked their recreational drug use.
If you become a drug abuser and abused your girlfriend or wife because of heavy abuse, then the New Left would accuse you of being a fake New Left party animal and label you a MAN guilty of domestic abuse, warning everyone in the party to stop sharing their party drugs with them.
This may include violent removal of said man ("eviction") from the former spouse's domicile.
The police will target you, and you could end up on Skid Row, sleeping in a homeless shelter, made homeless due to reverse domestic abuse.
This is is a true story for one member of the New Left. When he got into some bad drugs and abused his spouse, she complained to the New Left junta who feel entitled to saving the world.
So they outed him, and nobody cares what happened to him.
However, it may be true that that the New Left has a problem with addiction, especially addiction to power and control.
If you become a drug abuser and abused your girlfriend or wife because of heavy abuse, then the New Left would accuse you of being a fake New Left party animal and label you a MAN guilty of domestic abuse, warning everyone in the party to stop sharing their party drugs with them.
This may include violent removal of said man ("eviction") from the former spouse's domicile.
The police will target you, and you could end up on Skid Row, sleeping in a homeless shelter, made homeless due to reverse domestic abuse.
This is is a true story for one member of the New Left. When he got into some bad drugs and abused his spouse, she complained to the New Left junta who feel entitled to saving the world.
So they outed him, and nobody cares what happened to him.
However, it may be true that that the New Left has a problem with addiction, especially addiction to power and control.
20130120
Medication Through Meditation
Marxist-Leninists have critqued religion often saying "Religion is the opium of the people".
If religion is the opium of the people, then recreational drugs are just another addiction.
For religion may be addictive to people who desire control over others to make up for their inability to control their own destiny.
Indeed, addiction is a symptom of that inability.
Yet the irony is that among the New Left recreational drugs is a part of their culture.
For me it is easy to see that the problem here is not drugs, but the ego delusion associated with addiction based on the inability to control one's destiny.
If you are a social activist, then you may be directing your destiny in encounters with the State (potential arrest for burning a police car and smashing windows of a bank).
This creates the inability to control your destiny due to the police state mentality that results from confronting authority (exceedingly long times for the right of free assembly).
I find the solution to be simple: develop a rehabilitative strategy rather than relying on your drug crutch. For drug addiction is not a symptom of your hate for the State. Rather, it's an excuse for merely getting high. Were you doing it for noble purposes, I could understand.
For addiction is a dysfunctional way of "handling stress" called self-medication. I assure you that the best medicine is found through meditation, not getting drunk as a skunk.
YMMV
If religion is the opium of the people, then recreational drugs are just another addiction.
For religion may be addictive to people who desire control over others to make up for their inability to control their own destiny.
Indeed, addiction is a symptom of that inability.
Yet the irony is that among the New Left recreational drugs is a part of their culture.
For me it is easy to see that the problem here is not drugs, but the ego delusion associated with addiction based on the inability to control one's destiny.
If you are a social activist, then you may be directing your destiny in encounters with the State (potential arrest for burning a police car and smashing windows of a bank).
This creates the inability to control your destiny due to the police state mentality that results from confronting authority (exceedingly long times for the right of free assembly).
I find the solution to be simple: develop a rehabilitative strategy rather than relying on your drug crutch. For drug addiction is not a symptom of your hate for the State. Rather, it's an excuse for merely getting high. Were you doing it for noble purposes, I could understand.
For addiction is a dysfunctional way of "handling stress" called self-medication. I assure you that the best medicine is found through meditation, not getting drunk as a skunk.
YMMV
20110112
A Sane Solution to the Drug Problem
'Many thought Prohibition was working when it first became law in the early 1920s.
Alcohol consumption did indeed drop in the first few years. When organized crime realized the profits that would be made by illegally supplying alcohol to customers, alcohol consumption increased, as did crime and corruption in high places.
"Prohibition removed a significant source of tax revenue and greatly increased government spending," wrote Thornton, the economics professor at Auburn University. "It led many drinkers to switch to opium, marijuana, patent medicines, cocaine, and other dangerous substances that they would have been unlikely to encounter in the absence of Prohibition."
If Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman could bring in the army to clear snow from Toronto streets in 1999, can't we expect at least as much effort to clean up an illegal operation that is raging out of control and growing exponentially across the country?' — Martin O'Malley, "Let the army bust the grow-ops", CBC News Viewpoint | March 04, 2005
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'The Canadian establishment should do more to end economic inequality between immigrants and mainstream society. It should spend more money on universities to make higher education affordable to youngsters.
The government should legalize the drug trade to end the profit that motivates the violence. And finally, the government should provide extra money for rehabilitation and de-addiction programs, rather than ripping away the social safety net in the name of ruthless economic reform.' — South Asian Post: Out Loud! With Gurpreet Singh - Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Once people in positions of power stop pointing their fingers at immigrants, university students, polydrug abusers, and other targets they attack through laws meant to protect their assets, it is up to charities to get the philanthropists out to help society at large.
For the gang problem is not addressed by strong enforcement of drug laws, but by their repeal!
Indeed, laws regarding criminal entrapment and undue search and seizure should be revised to better protect the rights of innocent parties.
This includes the use of the military only in relation to the sources of drug crime i.e. importation and trafficking, but not its use. For drug use is a health issue.
With regard to use, preventative measures should involve a gradual movement towards decriminalization with a strong incentive to introduce less harmful alternatives to illegal drugs.
The regular education campaigns against drug abuse and psychosis should be continued.
For drug addiction is a health issue.
Originally posted: 07/07/09 1:04 PM
Revised: 12/01/11 4:01 PM
20070404
Busting the Gateway Myth about Marijuana
"Cannabis itself is not a cause of other drug use." --
CANNABIS : OUR POSITION FOR A CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY
REPORT OF THE SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ILLEGAL DRUGS
SUMMARY, SEPTEMBER 2002
There you have it, evidence that cannabis is not a cause of other drug use, that it is not a gateway drug, and that, given the evidence that cannabis is not more harmful than caffeine, it is a safe drug.
It was originally because of racism that marijuana was made illegal in Canada.
Thus the law is inherently racist but currentlyt targets a benign drug culture of whose members, very few of them have acted harmfully towards themselves and/or others.
At the very least, given evidence that alcohol and tobacco are many times more harmful, why are they not also included in any drug law nationally? Why are they treated separately? Because they are legal and any addiction to them is treated as a health problem.
Indeed, it is because both alcohol and tobacco have been regulated by the government. Consequently the media has "hidden" alcohol and tobacco from public scrutiny, and thus downplays their role in violence and/or death in Canada?
If so, then it may be possible that marijuana is demonized by media and by legal enforcement agencies for moral reasons unrelated to whatever potential harm this drug may cause. Essentially then, mass media has practiced propaganda against marijuana first by targeting an ethnic group and later by doing the following: associated early use in grade school with symptoms associated with idiopathic schizophrenia, used hyperbole to exaggerate the risk of lung disease caused by smoking marijuana, and used ad hominem attacks against regular marijuana users.
As well, the aggressive methods used by police to regulate marijuana use is a significent contributor to the rise in other drug use including methamphetamine, cocaine, and other stimulants.
If anything then the real gateway is the drug law, since it is because the law makes drugs illegal that criminals manufacture drugs for profit.
For legalization of all drugs would reduce the harm caused by such drugs.
CANNABIS : OUR POSITION FOR A CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY
REPORT OF THE SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ILLEGAL DRUGS
SUMMARY, SEPTEMBER 2002
There you have it, evidence that cannabis is not a cause of other drug use, that it is not a gateway drug, and that, given the evidence that cannabis is not more harmful than caffeine, it is a safe drug.
It was originally because of racism that marijuana was made illegal in Canada.
Thus the law is inherently racist but currentlyt targets a benign drug culture of whose members, very few of them have acted harmfully towards themselves and/or others.
At the very least, given evidence that alcohol and tobacco are many times more harmful, why are they not also included in any drug law nationally? Why are they treated separately? Because they are legal and any addiction to them is treated as a health problem.
Indeed, it is because both alcohol and tobacco have been regulated by the government. Consequently the media has "hidden" alcohol and tobacco from public scrutiny, and thus downplays their role in violence and/or death in Canada?
If so, then it may be possible that marijuana is demonized by media and by legal enforcement agencies for moral reasons unrelated to whatever potential harm this drug may cause. Essentially then, mass media has practiced propaganda against marijuana first by targeting an ethnic group and later by doing the following: associated early use in grade school with symptoms associated with idiopathic schizophrenia, used hyperbole to exaggerate the risk of lung disease caused by smoking marijuana, and used ad hominem attacks against regular marijuana users.
As well, the aggressive methods used by police to regulate marijuana use is a significent contributor to the rise in other drug use including methamphetamine, cocaine, and other stimulants.
If anything then the real gateway is the drug law, since it is because the law makes drugs illegal that criminals manufacture drugs for profit.
For legalization of all drugs would reduce the harm caused by such drugs.
20070330
Sometimes Drugs Cause Aggression
A final issue related to confounding is the effect of psychiatric medications on aggression. In a review of clinical aspects of dangerous behaviour, Menuck (1983) describes a number of iatrogenic or paradoxical drug reactions including:
Tranquilizer-sedatives (e.g. benzodiazepine and barbiturates) may have a disinhibiting effect on affect and behaviour. Paradoxical drug reactions involving violent behaviour have been reported among incarcerated offenders, psychiatric patients, and control group volunteers receiving these drugs.
Drugs that are capable of producing hypomania may elicit aggressive behaviour by arousal of the central nervous system. Aggressive behaviour has been reported among persons treated with imipramine and amitriptyline, phenylzine, prednisone, and bromocriptine.
Neuroleptic drugs sometimes increase aggressivity. This phenomenon has been observed during both low and high dose pharmacotherapy.
Thus any aggression found in psychiatrically disabled people on medication is due to their medication, regardless of any denial by any one person on medication.
What actually has been found is that opioid disorder (addiction to painkillers) reduces aggression, and most people with such disorders are less likely to exhibit aggressive behavior leading to violence. Indeed, IMHO they are the most compliant of substance users.
However, IMHO hypomania caused by medication is no different from substance abuse with regard to increased aggression.
Therefore, non-violent methods of confrontation and intervention are required to reduce aggression, regardless of whether one's substance use is illicit or approved by their doctor.
With regard to behavior, there is no difference between medication and substance abuse.
20070318
Mind Blowing Pot Leads to Reduced Use
According to research published in the journal Addiction, "First, the use of cannabis and rates of psychotic symptoms were related to each other, independently of observed/non-observed fixed covariates and observed time dynamic factors (Table 2). Secondly, the results of structural equation modelling suggest that the direction of causation is that the use of cannabis leads to increases in levels of psychotic symptoms rather than psychotic symptoms increasing the use of cannabis. Indeed, there is a suggestion from the model results that increases in psychotic symptoms may inhibit the use of cannabis."
Source: Fergusson, David M., John Horwood & Elizabeth M. Ridder, "Tests of Causal Linkages Between Cannabis Use and Psychotic Symptoms," Addiction, Vol. 100, No. 3, March 2005, p. 363.
What this means is, people who blow their minds on high quality pot stop using.
In short, their psychosis leads to them quitting pot.
Compare this to crack and meth addicts who get obsessed about getting high, and whose psychosis leads them to commit crimes to support their habits.
Pot users tend to learn to moderate their consumption.
This is why there are only 2.5% pot users worldwide.
Source: Fergusson, David M., John Horwood & Elizabeth M. Ridder, "Tests of Causal Linkages Between Cannabis Use and Psychotic Symptoms," Addiction, Vol. 100, No. 3, March 2005, p. 363.
What this means is, people who blow their minds on high quality pot stop using.
In short, their psychosis leads to them quitting pot.
Compare this to crack and meth addicts who get obsessed about getting high, and whose psychosis leads them to commit crimes to support their habits.
Pot users tend to learn to moderate their consumption.
This is why there are only 2.5% pot users worldwide.
20070202
Tokyo Ice (poem)
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
all awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
afraid of love,
all alone in the middle of a crowd.
then i see you,
and we share the ice and chill.
all awake and wired until crash.
afraid of thinking
and of the bad people in the crowd
afraid of trusting
anyone who's mean to me.
that's what Tokyo ice does to you.
frozen in time,
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
acting like a five year old
when things don't go my way.
all awake and wired until crash.
wondering why that guy is following me...
all awake and wired until crash.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
my heart is pounding.
afraid of people,
am I going to die?
afraid of people,
maybe it's time to give up the fast life.
all awake and wired until crash.
no more, waiting quietly
in the hospital, did all the stupid things
the doctor said to do,
I even apologized to my parents,
but none of my friends came by.
it's time to wait for my meds,
and forget about that old life.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
who needs ice when i've discovered
how much my family loves me?
for i've found how warm
people can be when they care.
all awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
afraid of love,
all alone in the middle of a crowd.
then i see you,
and we share the ice and chill.
all awake and wired until crash.
afraid of thinking
and of the bad people in the crowd
afraid of trusting
anyone who's mean to me.
that's what Tokyo ice does to you.
frozen in time,
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
wandering into the morning,
afraid of people,
but finding a network of friends.
acting like a five year old
when things don't go my way.
all awake and wired until crash.
wondering why that guy is following me...
all awake and wired until crash.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
ice ice baby, here in Tokyo...
awake and wired until crash.
my heart is pounding.
afraid of people,
am I going to die?
afraid of people,
maybe it's time to give up the fast life.
all awake and wired until crash.
no more, waiting quietly
in the hospital, did all the stupid things
the doctor said to do,
I even apologized to my parents,
but none of my friends came by.
it's time to wait for my meds,
and forget about that old life.
i wouldn't wish this on anyone else.
who needs ice when i've discovered
how much my family loves me?
for i've found how warm
people can be when they care.
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