How to say no to drugs

Why do you keep saying “drugs”? One doesn’t just do “drugs” all at once for the first time… lol the pictures give me a mental image of someone crushing together all those different things and smoking them together in a bowl (“Woo, look at me, I’m doing drugz!!1″).

Did you try pot and eventually move on to other things like most people? Mention that. I mean, I know what you’re saying about getting burnt out, but say “pot” if that’s what you’re burnt out on, say “coke” if that’s what you can’t get enough of. We have no clue what you’re talking about when you just say “drugs” six times in every sentence. “Drugs” have VERY different effects and VERY different possibilities for addiction…

Not to mention that you’ve probably also had pharmaceuticals/alcohol/tobacco/etc that you aren’t lumping in with the illicit ones.

I’m about 95% certain this article was written by someone who has never used any drug nor been immersed at all in drug culture. The author shows only a vague understanding of what it’s like to be high or experience the “come-down,” and zero understanding of how addiction actually feels.

This article is almost certainly written by some proselytizing anti-drug campaigner, looking to misinform others as a means to keep them from using drugs.

I’d just like to point out one major fallacy that got to me. The author repeatedly uses the word “drugs,” yet never specifies any particular drug. This gives the reader the impression that all drugs are the same, which is simply not true. The idea that alcohol (legal, potentially lethal, potentially addictive) is the same as marijuana (illegal, non-lethal, non-addictive) is the same as heroin (illegal, highly lethal, highly addictive) is simply not true. It’s like writing an article on the dangers of extreme sports without differentiating between rollerblading in the park and snowboarding off cliffs.

For honest, reliable information on drugs, both for and against their use, explore http://www.erowid.org. Get informed and make your own decisions.

PS Euphoria, if you really were an addict, my apologies, but you seem to know even less about drugs than the D.A.R.E officer who lied to me throughout grade school. Either that or you took so much ecstasy you’re no longer capable of effectively communicating with the world.

@B. Would you like to write an article how real drug addicts feel for Session Magazine? It would be nice to hear from you.

Hi read your article, for a mum who is living with this reality everyday this is pretty much on the money for how it is with my son. Poly addicted,shortly looking at this going very very badly for him. I wish people who took drugs and yeah I use the term to cover the dak, the alcohol, the speed, the pharmaceuticals….could have the capacity to care about what it does to family when we watch you tube your life.

go to Afghanistan and u will find urselves in heaven with the best quality of cocaine.

Imagine.. if marijuana was legal followed by proper education of drugs (as opposed of frightening people.. that’s what’s being done with sex, look at how great that’s going), less young people would get to know the world of drugs so soon when they are obviously not ready, especially since it’s pretty much easier for them to get weed since dealers don’t ask for ID.

Ohz Noez! Don’t do “The drugs”! Gud thang I reeded this articles!

Can you is help me with my internetz next of wise and vague leader

looks like this was written by a 14 year old. And do peers really “pressurize” you to do drugs, or do they ‘pressure’ you? Seriously, this article is more than uselessw.

B summarizes well.

marijuana has many medicinal uses. recent studies from respected institutions show that thc oil retards tumor growth. it has many scientific and industrial uses.

virtually all drugs are a double edged sword with dangers and benefits. cocaine can be an anaesthetic. opiates are commonly used as painkillers but addiction to either of these will obviously ruin your life and/or kill you.

amphetamines are often abused but also are used to treat a range of mental conditions. ADD for example- although I think these drugs are widely over-prescribed, especially to children.

the one thing to recognize is that making them illegal creates a massive funding for violent gangs, and puts non-violent people with medical problems in prison.

do not be fooled into separating legal and illegal drugs into 2 categories. alcohol and tobacco are addictive and deadly. prescription drugs are often abused.

qbit

This article reads like it was written by a mentally challenged 5-year-old Malaysian child. The author also should think about learning to write better titles, because if anything, that paltry explanation of “how to say no to drugs” made me want to go cop some drugs just to make it through. garbage.

first off only dirt bags will sell to thirteen year old children being an ex dealer myself no one in our “organization” as people like to call such things would ever sell to anyone under the age of seventeen unless it was pot and even then only to people who were at least fifteen not to say it doesnt happen but the majority of dealers do have morals and if you want to try to keep people from doing hard drugs why dont you talk about doing coke so much you dont sleep for days where your nose is so damaged you cant breath out of how the cartiledge of your nose is so degraded it no longer is ridged how it bleeds everytime you sneeze or being so addicted to it you have to decide if youd rather be high or eat this week or what about the dealers people rarely talk about them real dealers not the sixteen year old kids that are all “omgz im gonna sells pots and make hellaz monies!!” im talking the one that had to chose this life the ones that do it so they can eat the ones that had to because of their up bringing that dont want to do it but have no choice who are so in debt to their bosses they may never get out who are constantly in fear of the police and rivals who get robbed on a weekly occurence no one ever talks about them

This article is retarded. Get a grip.

I fuckin’ love drugs. In fact, I’m on one right now!

yo dawg I heard you liek drugz
once i accidentally a whole thing of drugs
i was liek OH NOES! I accidentally it all
it was bad
don’t do drugz

Author couldn’t have possibly done a drug in his life. I love drugs.

Should of been able to control yourself. your fault for doing something you couldn’t handle in the first place. don’t blame it on the drugs, blame yourself.

“How does one say no to drugs”
LOL, id rather keep doing what i please.

LEGALIZE AND REGULATE!

Dear lord the comments are hilarious. Yes, it was clearly written by someone who is filled with boundless ignorance and poor grammar to boot. Seriously, does anyone proof read the senseless mind-seepage that has been vomited onto your screen? Where you high when you wrote it? Because that’s really the only explanation I can think of. Uneducated and ignorant people like you give responsible and recreational users a bad name. I know, it’s crazy! But people can and do use drugs in a responsible and non-harmful way.

This is probably not a true account, also– please go take a middle school English class.

I agree, digz;

“Once I got used doing drugs, slowly and slowly, the feeling of high that I used to get wasn’t there”

“This helped me in getting this feeling out of my mind.”

“Then I reached a stage where I realized that doing drugs was not and will never do me any good. This is when I realized that persisting with my habit will never lead me anywhere except to my downfall. It is where that I started to get away from this habit of doing drugs all the time. Now I would try and avoid the situations or the people who would do drugs.”

While Euphoria is technically using correct grammar, 99% of the sentence structure is extremely awkward, and he erratically switches tenses.

What a crock, for a start, as many people have already pointed out, different drugs have different effects – you can’t just say ” I am addicted to drugs”
I understand that people struggle with cannabis and can become, in a way, mentally addicted, but speaking as a heroin addict, just taking it one day at a time simplifies the issue. I’ve been stuck on this shit 17 yrs now, and about 9 yrs ago left the scene, where every1 was one something. I now live a ‘normal’ life. I am what is considered a functioning addict and no one around me takes the stuff or knows I take it – but guess what? I’m still on it. My idea of a perfect Sunday morning is the paper, a coffee and a toot. No one pressures me yet i can’t give up the stuff. I am prescribed methadone so it isn’t the fear of physical withdrawl that makes me take it, it’s just something about the buzz it gives me.
I’m not slating this guy – hell, trying to stop smoking normal fags is hell so giving up a drug that gives you any pleasurable feelings is to be applauded. I just think maybe he should have written about what I assume is his drug of choice – cannabis – and not clumped drugs all together in one big category.
resect for getting your shit together :-)

I was going to comment, but the first poster (“Curious Fellow”) said it all.

Without talking seriously about what drugs you are referring to, you aren’t really talking about anything at all. When I hear “drugs”, I think of all drugs, which includes alcohol, caffeine, aspirin, etc. Without specifying which drugs you’re talking about, you are essentially creating a propaganda piece and I can only assume that you haven’t really come to terms with the real reasons why you decided to stop using “drugs”.

Anybody who has known someone with a drug habit – I mean really known them; I mean getting to deal with all the things they’re afraid to let other people see – will know that this article is like the CliffsNotes version of “Drugs for Dummies”. It reads like someone took a word for word dictation from Ozzy Osbourne, and what little advice it gives doesn’t even work in the real world. I know this because it’s the same advice they give to elementary school students, and we all know how well that works. And it’s poorly written to boot. The author uses the word “drugs” 24 times in a 866 word essay. For comparison, that is as often as he used “the”. So, this article is a boring, ineffectual, and less compelling collage of other peoples drug confessions, complete big, ugly seams. Fans of bad writing will love it.

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