Getting stoned is not the way to go these days.
It is NOT the salve for your pain.
It is NOT the remedy for your heartache.
It is NOT the solution for your problems.
It is NOT your friend.
Yes to Life. NO to Drugs!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Top 20 Questions to Assess Drug Addiction Symptoms
People who are addicted do not necessarily see the whole picture. If you are concerned about a family member, friend or co-worker, there are a few questions to ask in helping you’re assessment.If you are questioning your own drug use, ask yourself some questions. Have you developed a higher tolerance for the drug. Does it take more and more of your drug of choice to get the desired effect?
1. Has their appearance changed; they don't care how they look?
2. Are they eating properly?
3. Have they lost weight, or have they gained weight?
4. Have you seen needle marks on their arms or legs?
5. Are they slowing down?
6. Do they have the shakes?
7. Are their hands cold and sweaty?
8. Have you smelled something on their breath, or their clothing?
9. Do their eyes appear red?
10. Are their pupils dilated?
11. Is their face puffy?
12. Has their coloring changed, become flushed or pale?
13. Do they have a blank stare?
14. Has their physical coordination changed? Are they staggering?
15. Have they missed a lot of school, or work?
16. Have their sleep habits changed? Are they always tired?
17. Have they become lazy?
18. Are they hyper?
19. Do they talk a million miles an hour? Do they slur their words?
20. Have you seen drug paraphernalia?
*This list is by no means an exhaustive list of drug addiction symptoms. Try to avoid being judgemental or jumping to conclusions.
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How to Beat Drug Addiction
Here are some helpful tips for those who are trying to get clean and stop using drugs.
1. Decide that you really do want to stop using drugs. Unless you have the desire to change you will never be able to.
2. Be completely honest with yourself and others.
3. Remove influences that enable your drug use from your life.
4. Avoid relying on someone to stop doing drugs, as he or she may not have the willingness to change and avoid all temptations.
5. Stock up on nutritious food to keep your strength up while going through withdrawal.
6. Find a group to help you deal with the issues that come up when stopping drugs.
7.Stay with a reliable friend who does not take drugs to help you out while you go through the worst of your withdrawal.
8. If you feel you cannot deal with withdrawal by yourself, then see a doctor or go to a hospital emergency room.
9. Write down a list of things you enjoyed doing before you started using drugs or things you've been interested in doing that you haven't done yet to fill the void that their absence will create.
10. Identify your triggers, which are people, places, things, events, activities, emotions, times, dates etc., that make you think of using; and avoid them.
11. Identify your relapse warning signs, which are changes in your behaviors and/or attitude that signal a chance that you are close to using.
12. Educated yourself on the dangers to your mind and body.
13. Find a support system.
14. Develop a crisis plan.
15. Develop and use positive self talk.
16. Find health activities to replace using.
17. Look for work that doesn't involve selling of drugs.
18. Focus on your health and taking care of your family.
edited from Wikihow: How To Beat Drug Addiction
1. Decide that you really do want to stop using drugs. Unless you have the desire to change you will never be able to.
2. Be completely honest with yourself and others.
3. Remove influences that enable your drug use from your life.
4. Avoid relying on someone to stop doing drugs, as he or she may not have the willingness to change and avoid all temptations.
5. Stock up on nutritious food to keep your strength up while going through withdrawal.
6. Find a group to help you deal with the issues that come up when stopping drugs.
7.Stay with a reliable friend who does not take drugs to help you out while you go through the worst of your withdrawal.
8. If you feel you cannot deal with withdrawal by yourself, then see a doctor or go to a hospital emergency room.
9. Write down a list of things you enjoyed doing before you started using drugs or things you've been interested in doing that you haven't done yet to fill the void that their absence will create.
10. Identify your triggers, which are people, places, things, events, activities, emotions, times, dates etc., that make you think of using; and avoid them.
11. Identify your relapse warning signs, which are changes in your behaviors and/or attitude that signal a chance that you are close to using.
12. Educated yourself on the dangers to your mind and body.
13. Find a support system.
14. Develop a crisis plan.
15. Develop and use positive self talk.
16. Find health activities to replace using.
17. Look for work that doesn't involve selling of drugs.
18. Focus on your health and taking care of your family.
edited from Wikihow: How To Beat Drug Addiction
SAY NO TO DRUGS!!
SAY NO TO DRUGS!
Our multi-faceted life,
never hesitates toprovide,
Both reality and illusions!
With errors of perception,
leading us even to momentary periods of hallucination!
Yet in our erroneous persuation, of seekinginstant bliss,
At the fall of a hat,
we take to drugs and narcotics!
And in trying to make those deceptive and illusive moments last,
We soon become slaves to poisonous drugs!
Which ultimately saps our mental strengthand vitality,
Making us refuse to face reality!
So let us all say no to those poisonous drugs,
And never suffer under any self-induceddelusions;
Since running away from the realities of life,
Shall never be the ultimate solution!
Therefore let us now with a firm resolve,
And always be very emphatic,
To say NO to those drugs, a
nd all those hallucinating narcotics!
-Raj Nandy
New Delhi
21 May 08
Our multi-faceted life,
never hesitates toprovide,
Both reality and illusions!
With errors of perception,
leading us even to momentary periods of hallucination!
Yet in our erroneous persuation, of seekinginstant bliss,
At the fall of a hat,
we take to drugs and narcotics!
And in trying to make those deceptive and illusive moments last,
We soon become slaves to poisonous drugs!
Which ultimately saps our mental strengthand vitality,
Making us refuse to face reality!
So let us all say no to those poisonous drugs,
And never suffer under any self-induceddelusions;
Since running away from the realities of life,
Shall never be the ultimate solution!
Therefore let us now with a firm resolve,
And always be very emphatic,
To say NO to those drugs, a
nd all those hallucinating narcotics!
-Raj Nandy
New Delhi
21 May 08
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Are drug addicts worth saving?
Addicts would say that they are entitled to their choice in life. If they want to pump drugs into their system, leave them be because they would say it is their life, ergo their choice. However, if we let these addicts wither away and die, it is the same as putting a gun in their head and watch them kill themselves!
I am not saying that you should turn into a preacher and knock on doors to preach about the right path. I am also not suggesting that you should rally people in your neighbourhood and play at being vigilante by busting the drug pushers off the street!
So what am I saying? The right step starts within ourselves. We have to renew our belief that all life is meaningful. Even that of a drug addicts! We have to help them by alerting the cops. We have to be cruel to be kind! They will get all the help at the rehab center.
I am not saying that you should turn into a preacher and knock on doors to preach about the right path. I am also not suggesting that you should rally people in your neighbourhood and play at being vigilante by busting the drug pushers off the street!
So what am I saying? The right step starts within ourselves. We have to renew our belief that all life is meaningful. Even that of a drug addicts! We have to help them by alerting the cops. We have to be cruel to be kind! They will get all the help at the rehab center.
Some photo's I'd like to share with you so that we can all think about the consequences...
injecting liquids into the body may harm you physically
Living an untidy surrounding...thrown out by family members
WHAT IS THE PRICE OF LIFE?
What do you think about life? Life to many means enjoying to the fullest/maximum.. They would go all out just to enjoy themselves. Even to extent of taking drugs.
I just want to know how many of you out there actually take drugs? Why are you taking drugs? there must be reasons right??Are you taking drugs because you are having problems, or are you unhappy with your current states and need to forget your problems for a while and thus you are resorting to taking drugs? Or are you taking it for medical purposes and ended up being a chronic drug user? Or maybe you are taking it because its the 'IN' thing nowadays??
If you have answered YES to any of this questions,that means you are in BIG trouble..Let me tell you a story about my friend Susan. She was a very beautiful girl with a big future ahead of her. Many of her friends predicted that she will be migrating to overseas and having a big job with Wall Street. But, unfortunately, my friend Susan is not alive anymore..... She died last year as a result of her drug addiction to cocaine...
How did she ended up in grave? Well, she wants to be with the 'IN' crowd..You know, popular , rich kids..Susan is from a middle average income family. But her parents worked hard and put her into a famous residential school. All the rich kids in the neighbourhood goes there. When she arrived there, the crowd didn't actually accepted here..Well her clothes are not from Gucci or Prada or Versace..But, its hands-me-down clothes.Her shoes are not from Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choos. But, cheap one that you can buy at a mall..
She didn't have any friends there. Nobody wanted to talk to her, or sat with her at recess or be her lab partner. She was all alone. I pitied her. But, I cannot do much. I am going to a normal school and she's going to a private school. And then one day, she told me a secret...She is now accepted into the crowd...I was surprised!!Mainly because she is still wearing her old clothes and all..We were wondering HOW??
Then I found out. Susan has been taking cocaine. The 'IN' crowd accepted her because she is following their ways now.. I was surprised and angry..I tried to advice her...I even took her to the nearest drug rehabilitation centre...But, nothing worked.. She began to distance herself from me... And then I got accepted into a college in another state..I lost contact with her for sometimes..One day, I received a call from my mother. She was crying on the phone..It seems Susan was hospitalised and she wants to see me..I was shocked when my mother told me Susan, my best frien is on her death bed..
The next day, I went to see her... I was so sad looking at her. She was all rags and bones...and..and... there were no words to describe her at all...She was looking so pathetic... Susan told me her story.. After I went off to college, she dropped out of school..Because her addiction was getting worse day by day...She started to steal money from her parents to support her life style.. When they found ou, they kicked her out of the house...And still that didn't stop her addiction..She need more cocaine. For that she needs money..
Nobody is willing to give her money..So, she started prostituting herself.. Because she even contracted AIDS because she changed a lot of partners...And now she is on her death bed with no family or friends..She was grateful that I still came to see her for the last time..Susan was sad beacuse she didn't heed my advices..I didn't have anymore words to say to her..I was just crying and crying and crying...That day,Susan died in my arms..I lost my best friend to drugs..
Is this what you want to end up? Like my friend Susan..Just because you wanted to be accepted into the crowd, you started taking drugs..Is this what life is worth about??.. Did GOD created us for this?? Did our mother gave birth to us, so that we will end up in the grave earlier than her..Must we pay a high price just to enjoy ourself for a short while??..
I started this blog with my friends in the hope of educating young people about drugs..I sincerely hope that nobody will be going the way my friend ended up..
.Life is worth enjoying..GOD created us with brains, so please use it well..If you are taking drugs, please stop it..Get help!! If you are planning on taking drugs,STOP it now!!
SAY NO TO DRUGS!!
I just want to know how many of you out there actually take drugs? Why are you taking drugs? there must be reasons right??Are you taking drugs because you are having problems, or are you unhappy with your current states and need to forget your problems for a while and thus you are resorting to taking drugs? Or are you taking it for medical purposes and ended up being a chronic drug user? Or maybe you are taking it because its the 'IN' thing nowadays??
If you have answered YES to any of this questions,that means you are in BIG trouble..Let me tell you a story about my friend Susan. She was a very beautiful girl with a big future ahead of her. Many of her friends predicted that she will be migrating to overseas and having a big job with Wall Street. But, unfortunately, my friend Susan is not alive anymore..... She died last year as a result of her drug addiction to cocaine...
How did she ended up in grave? Well, she wants to be with the 'IN' crowd..You know, popular , rich kids..Susan is from a middle average income family. But her parents worked hard and put her into a famous residential school. All the rich kids in the neighbourhood goes there. When she arrived there, the crowd didn't actually accepted here..Well her clothes are not from Gucci or Prada or Versace..But, its hands-me-down clothes.Her shoes are not from Manolo Blahnik or Jimmy Choos. But, cheap one that you can buy at a mall..
She didn't have any friends there. Nobody wanted to talk to her, or sat with her at recess or be her lab partner. She was all alone. I pitied her. But, I cannot do much. I am going to a normal school and she's going to a private school. And then one day, she told me a secret...She is now accepted into the crowd...I was surprised!!Mainly because she is still wearing her old clothes and all..We were wondering HOW??
Then I found out. Susan has been taking cocaine. The 'IN' crowd accepted her because she is following their ways now.. I was surprised and angry..I tried to advice her...I even took her to the nearest drug rehabilitation centre...But, nothing worked.. She began to distance herself from me... And then I got accepted into a college in another state..I lost contact with her for sometimes..One day, I received a call from my mother. She was crying on the phone..It seems Susan was hospitalised and she wants to see me..I was shocked when my mother told me Susan, my best frien is on her death bed..
The next day, I went to see her... I was so sad looking at her. She was all rags and bones...and..and... there were no words to describe her at all...She was looking so pathetic... Susan told me her story.. After I went off to college, she dropped out of school..Because her addiction was getting worse day by day...She started to steal money from her parents to support her life style.. When they found ou, they kicked her out of the house...And still that didn't stop her addiction..She need more cocaine. For that she needs money..
Nobody is willing to give her money..So, she started prostituting herself.. Because she even contracted AIDS because she changed a lot of partners...And now she is on her death bed with no family or friends..She was grateful that I still came to see her for the last time..Susan was sad beacuse she didn't heed my advices..I didn't have anymore words to say to her..I was just crying and crying and crying...That day,Susan died in my arms..I lost my best friend to drugs..
Is this what you want to end up? Like my friend Susan..Just because you wanted to be accepted into the crowd, you started taking drugs..Is this what life is worth about??.. Did GOD created us for this?? Did our mother gave birth to us, so that we will end up in the grave earlier than her..Must we pay a high price just to enjoy ourself for a short while??..
I started this blog with my friends in the hope of educating young people about drugs..I sincerely hope that nobody will be going the way my friend ended up..
.Life is worth enjoying..GOD created us with brains, so please use it well..If you are taking drugs, please stop it..Get help!! If you are planning on taking drugs,STOP it now!!
SAY NO TO DRUGS!!
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