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 b0red5tiff
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 Getting High... Can You Get Off It?
#7484085 - 10/04/07 08:48 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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http://featured-articles.com/health/getting-high-can-you-get-off-it.html
It is often said that each person is unique and totally distinct from the eight billion other people on the planet. Different people have different interests, biases, wants, needs, and desires. Where these interests and desires take a person in life totally depends on each decision that is made every day.
For example, a typical teenager in college can choose between being a “do-gooder” whose life revolves around the home and the classroom; or going just a bit wild and experiment with all sorts of new things. Experiencing new things can be as simple as meeting girls, having intimate relationships, to drinking alcohol, or to something as risky as taking drugs.
Teens who experiment with drugs often do so because of peer pressure and the need to belong. Poor choice in friends can lead an otherwise normal teenager to go over board and become addicted to illegal drugs. Sometimes, the pressure and bad influence from peer groups can overcome a teenager's sense of right and wrong, or the values and principles taught to them from the home and the church. Some who do not get hooked on drugs say that they tried doing drugs just to satisfy the curiosity about how it feels to “get high.”
The usual period for a person to experience and try new stuff would be during their teenage years, since their curiosity for the world is at its highest point around that age. Almost all of us have been exposed to drugs and alcohol at some point in our life. Alcohol is considered as a social drink for some, but this could lead to a more difficult alcohol addiction, or alcoholism. A more alarming fact would be to know that a certain number of teenage boys and girls get addicted to drugs, such as marijuana, “crystal meth”, or even LSD. This addiction could lead into a more dangerous position, causing them to go into drug rehabilitation.
Of course, a recovering addict would naturally be anxious or frightened by the prospect of being confined in a drug rehabilitation facility. Anxiety is present and felt at all times since they do not know what to see and think after they get out of rehab. Turning them into rehab may also cause depression, not just for the patient, but for the parents as well. Of course, the addict does not want to be into rehab because of the fact that they cannot use their drug inside the premises and that they will be separated from their drug- addicted friends. This isolation or separation would naturally cause depression. It would be a hard time for both the parents and the patient since this would be a time for detoxification, counseling, and basic addiction treatment.
Being inside a rehabilitation center would be like punishment for the addict. In this scenario, they are required to attend, listen, cooperate, and learn the benefits of having a healthy, drug-free life, instead of being addicted and enslaved by a chemical substance. In case they have to stay there for a set period of time, thoughts of depression and feelings of withdrawal from their drug may arise. These patients may be hard to talk to or communicate with due to their withdrawal symptoms. By having a relaxed and calm environment, this could help in releasing stress and anxiety from the patients, as well as giving them a fresh perspective on life.
Whether the addict is registered in the rehabilitation center as an out-patient, short term in-patient, or long term in-patient programs, they would have to deal with drug counseling activities, open forums, and educational facilities that might help in decreasing their need for drugs. Depression should decrease as time flies because through the rehabilitation sessions, the patient would learn how to be set free from the addiction and get back on the road to recovery.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: b0red5tiff]
#7484134 - 10/04/07 09:10 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Eight billion?
Where did the other 2000 million magically spring up from?
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Visionary Tools]
#7484203 - 10/04/07 09:37 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Double vision caused by massive alcohol intake, it's the only explanation that fits with the rest of the bullshit in that article.
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boomer q
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: FecalDildo]
#7484219 - 10/04/07 09:43 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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this article is pretty dumb
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: b0red5tiff]
#7484276 - 10/04/07 10:01 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Why do people not consider alcohol a drug? It doesn't make sense. Nobody has even been addicted to LSD in any manner and nobody has ever been physically addicted to marijuana.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: robbyberto]
#7484291 - 10/04/07 10:06 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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> Why do people not consider alcohol a drug?
Because then the people that make laws would be no different than the drug users they victimize.
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 Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Seuss]
#7484315 - 10/04/07 10:18 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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which high school sophomore wrote this, fess up
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Pandora
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Seuss]
#7484333 - 10/04/07 10:23 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Quote:
Seuss said:
> Why do people not consider alcohol a drug?
Because then the people that make laws would be no different than the drug users they victimize.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Pandora]
#7484413 - 10/04/07 10:47 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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that was a pretty funny one. 
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: b0red5tiff]
#7484442 - 10/04/07 10:58 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Hell, I used to have a very objective view of life. I used to believe Jesus and Mohammad were the biggest con artists in the universe before I tried psychedelics. Then I realized that their works were to be taken subjectively and have far more respect for them and every other enlightened individual now than I did before. It's a shame that the biggest group against drugs like LSD are the religious nuts who are afraid it will somehow replace the Church or God.
I don't like how this author (sounds like a teenager with no life experience) finds that there HAS to be two extremes. You are either a church-going do-gooder or curious, addicted to "crystal meth, or even LSD." Some of the most religious people I've ever met only became so after doing psychedelics, and some of the most hard working motivated people I've met smoke pot daily. Likewise, a lot of functioning retards I know who do as they're told have been working at a dead end job for 10 years (I know people who've been sweeping floors for 10 years at the company I work) and have never used any drug.
It's silly to sit down and try to put people into specific categories. This author even mentions that people are different in the first sentence. I figured this would lead to an article about how some people get high and have no problems, and others try it and cannot "get off it."
The author doesn't take into account that only about 1% (it's far less, I think about 0.03%) of people who use drugs become addicted. The only drug addicts I've ever met in my life were addicted to other things before, like street racing and speeding, stealing, legal drugs, breaking and entering, etc almost anything that provides a thrill and puts you In The Zone -- and I've worked at a non-proft drug/alcohol addiction hotline helping people and their families deal with drug addiction, so I've seen my fair share of addicts. Putting them in rehabilitation centers is only treating a symptom and not the root cause. That's why the relapse rate is so high.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Quake3]
#7484595 - 10/04/07 11:45 AM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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i agree with outhere
that was a poorly written half-baked amateur article
i seriously hope this wasnt published news
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Chi Ro
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: SampaJasli]
#7484871 - 10/04/07 01:02 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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lulz im adickted 2 lsd d00dz
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Chi Ro]
#7484955 - 10/04/07 01:26 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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hahaha holy shit
i just noticed
if you follow the link and scroll down to read about the author, look what site it leads to
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: SampaJasli]
#7484960 - 10/04/07 01:27 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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it only got 19 views. i bet all of them were from the shroomery.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Drewwyann]
#7484977 - 10/04/07 01:33 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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its extremely easy to register so you can post a comment on the article. you literally come up with a username, and a password, and then you can comment.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Drewwyann]
#7485313 - 10/04/07 03:00 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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I have two friends that were addicted to LSD for about six months each. It wasn't anything like a heroin addiction or something, they just always wanted to be on acid. So they did it every day for months on end. Really (one of them was living with a chemist). After a while they stopped tripping from it and just got kind of weird. And then they quit. They're both fine, of course, except for one of them developed a bizarre sleep rhythm disorder immediately after this period and hasn't been able to get into restful sleep without the aid of antipsychotics for about 3 years now. Kind of a pain in the ass.
Anyways. I like acid as much as the next guy, the article is dumb, but I feel like I'm one of the few people that's met an acid addict and thought I'd point out that its possible, albeit pretty benign.
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: arcadesproject]
#7485498 - 10/04/07 04:04 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Doing LSD every day = idiotic
Doing LSD every day = throwing it away
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: ROX]
#7485595 - 10/04/07 04:38 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: asedatednation]
#7486327 - 10/04/07 08:11 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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Quote:
"crystal meth", or even LSD.
is it just me or does it seem like they are classifying LSD worse then meth?
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Re: Getting High... Can You Get Off It? [Re: Varman]
#7486852 - 10/04/07 11:08 PM (10 months, 20 days ago) |
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This article would not be out of place in a 50's high school paper. This has to be the least intellectual piece I've ever read on the news forum; but it was a laugh.
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