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 Parents learning the drug lingo
#8190926 - 03/25/08 10:09 AM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/story/4147921p-4737809c.html
Brian Yellowback is down with crack, jib, shrooms, the love drug and special k.
The father of four children is learning the lingo so he can talk to his kids about the dangers of drugs.
"I've heard of kids younger than 13 experimenting with drugs, starting off with marijuana and gradually working their way up to harder drugs," said Yellowback, standing with his 13 year-old daughter outside an inner-city community centre on Ross Avenue.
"The kids, especially in this area, are pretty knowledgable about drugs by the time they are 13, so I think it's a good thing for parents to know the slang words."
The federal government launched an advertising campaign this month as part of the National Anti-Drug Strategy, targeting the parents of teens between 13 and 15. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the strategy in October, pledging to modernize and expand treatment programs, educate young people about the dangers of drugs and combat the production and distribution of illicit drugs.
The advertising campaign, the first of its kind in at least 20 years, helps parents learn about drugs and encourages them to talk with their children.
"What we found in our research is that a lot of young people are confused about the dangers of illicit drugs and about the legality of illicit drugs like marijuana," said federal Health Minister Tony Clement.
"This campaign recognizes that you should have the conversation with your child when they are 12 or 13 because that's when they are going to be exposed to the drug culture in the school yard or in the shopping mall."
The campaign includes radio and newspaper advertisements, with a national television campaign to be launched in April.
The ads, in more than 400 newspapers across the country, refer parents to the campaign's website, where they can find the latest information about slang words, the effects of drugs and how to talk to kids.
Yellowback's daughter, Jackie, isn't so sure it's a good thing that her parents know the drug lingo.
"It's weird," she said. However, she thinks it will help her parents talk to her and her siblings about the dangers of drugs.
So far, around 5,000 parents have ordered a booklet called Talking with your Teens about Drugs from the campaign's website, which offers 14 pages of advice.
Although any preventative measure is positive, Roxane Sarrasin with the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba said the campaign's message might not reach everyone.
"We know that there are some populations that might not respond to this kind of messaging because there is no significant adult in their life," Sarrasin said.
"I think it targets the children who have parents, but it still has some good prevention messages, such as talk to your kids about drugs."
An anti-drug campaign directly targeting youth is the next step for the federal government and will be launched in the next few months.
For more information on the current campaign visit www.nationalantidrugstrategy.gc.ca/parents/parents.html.
meghan.hurley@freepress.mb.ca
Drug names:
what they mean
Learn the street names for some of the most prevalent drugs:
Crack: Crack cocaine or "freebase" are smokeable forms of cocaine that look like crystals or rocks.
The love drug: ecstasy, similar to amphetamine (a stimulant) and mescaline (a hallucinogen).
Special k: Ketamine is a rapid-acting anesthetic drug used mainly by veterinarians, which can make a person feel a sense of detachment, as if their mind is separated from their body.
Shrooms: magic mushrooms or Psilocybin, a hallucinogen that alters a person's perceptions such as seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not really there.
Jib: Crystal methamphetamine releases chemicals in the brain responsible for regulating pleasure.
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8191085 - 03/25/08 11:08 AM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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Mescaline is reffered to as the love drug? Fuckin kids these days...
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: DarkMoon21]
#8191132 - 03/25/08 11:30 AM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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Quote:
DarkMoon21 said:
Mescaline is reffered to as the love drug? Fuckin kids these days...
Read it again. It's not saying that. It's saying that ecstacy is similar to mescaline. Kinda like comparing salvia to lsd, don'tcha think?
I didn't realize crack was slang though. I thought that was what it was called. I guess freebase cocaine is the proper name.
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: truffleupagus]
#8191190 - 03/25/08 11:52 AM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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Ive read that as Americans we are actually talking to our kids about real life things too young, and it is actually makeing them face stresses that they shouldnt be aware of at 12. Increased stress could lead to destructive behavior.
who knows
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: unborn]
#8191412 - 03/25/08 01:03 PM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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DARE made me want to smoke pot 
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 Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: Atheist]
#8191493 - 03/25/08 01:23 PM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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Same here, the cops were talking about all these drugs and what some of the effects were. I thought to myself, "that'd be kinda cool."
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: IdoItToUNWIND]
#8192032 - 03/25/08 03:33 PM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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i remember the dare cop telling us about how he handled a case with a man that was locked in his house tripping on acid scraping off his skin with a knife because he thought he had bugs all over him. 
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: xpl0de]
#8192077 - 03/25/08 03:42 PM (6 months, 18 days ago) |
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xpl0de said:
i remember the dare cop telling us about how he handled a case with a man that was locked in his house tripping on acid scraping off his skin with a knife because he thought he had bugs all over him.
that happened to me twice last week. you never?
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8194839 - 03/26/08 12:55 AM (6 months, 17 days ago) |
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Brian Yellowback is down with crack, jib, shrooms, the love drug and special k.
The love drug: ecstasy, similar to amphetamine (a stimulant) and mescaline (a hallucinogen).
Love drug is slang for MDA. Guess Mr. Yellowback isn't so down after all.
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8195347 - 03/26/08 05:24 AM (6 months, 17 days ago) |
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> "I've heard of kids younger than 13 experimenting with drugs, starting off with marijuana and gradually working their way up to harder drugs,"
Actually, they start with breast milk, before moving on towards other, harder drugs, such as water, sugar, caffeine, and eventually alcohol. They learn how to do hard drugs by watching their parents drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and pop their daily dosage of xanax and prozac every day, not by trying the mary-wanna plant and working their way up to harder drugs. Bad parenting, not some plant, turns children into drug users.
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"What we found in our research is that a lot of young people are confused about the dangers of illicit drugs and about the legality of illicit drugs like marijuana," said federal Health Minister Tony Clement.
... and how could that be? Perhaps, because we lie to our children about the dangers of drugs. We lie to them and teach them that plants such as cannabis are illegal because they are dangerous and then wonder why children play with datura, a completely legal plant.
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magic mushrooms or Psilocybin, a hallucinogen that alters a person's perceptions such as seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not really there.
Eh?
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Re: Parents learning the drug lingo [Re: Seuss]
#8195893 - 03/26/08 10:19 AM (6 months, 17 days ago) |
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Quote:
magic mushrooms or Psilocybin, a hallucinogen that alters a person's perceptions such as seeing, hearing or feeling things that are not really there.
 
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