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Bluelighter
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1. Teach harm minimisation classes at school.
I was binge drinking at the age of 14 and nearly killed myself from alcohol, several times.
I was never taught what an over-dose was, what the signs were and what to do if it happened to me. Alcohol was easy to gain access to and we just didn't go for the sugary drinks. In fact we moved away from those, quickly, as I'm sure many here can attest, passion pop is guaranteed to create vomit and sickening hangovers.
No teenage binge drinkers are far more habitual in their drug of choice. I remember learning that skull a tall glass filled with straight whisky was guaranteed to make the morning period a gas.
MacDonald's cups (large) are perfect for drinking goon. Skull away and bam you've just drunken 1.3litres of cheap ass wine (coz if you can't steal it fuck it if your going to pay top dollar to get fucked).
I recall in my later years my father (who was an alcoholic) explaining drinking a bottle of whisky within an hour or two would kill the average human (well himself).
Well thanks for telling me after I blacked out more times then I can remember (ha), waking up so many times blood all over me. The non-stop vomiting.
But the thing was when i realised that alcohol killed so many "ordinary" people. Binge drinking on the weekend and you don't expect to die, but that happens to people every weekend in this country.
But I don't think alcohol is the problem, just the same as with LSD, MDMA and family. Hell you'll find a significant quantity of problem drinkers, once they move off of the grog, simply move onto another denial producing addiction.
This leads to me my next point
2. restrict access, change the way we approach altering our consciousness. Admit this innate and all too human of needs and start dealing with it in a straight forward adult way.
I see the need for choice but not when it doesn't have competition. I want people to choice their drug addictions, spread them thin. Poly drug use.
Why because such a change in our regulations can only occur once we've completed point 1.
We need to stop treating people like children, refusing to talk about the hard issue. Why we drink our demons away and how hypocritical we deny (ever so failing) an opportunity to smoke theirs away.
Look we'll never rid this world of pain and anguish. People are always going to be fucked up and in turn fuck other people up, but at least we should be there for them.
Shits me to tears when I see these political football kick offs. Don't just sweep it under the bed thinking your big media campaign will hide the monster of junk that lurks under there.
Anyway probably not the thread.
I was binge drinking at the age of 14 and nearly killed myself from alcohol, several times.
I was never taught what an over-dose was, what the signs were and what to do if it happened to me. Alcohol was easy to gain access to and we just didn't go for the sugary drinks. In fact we moved away from those, quickly, as I'm sure many here can attest, passion pop is guaranteed to create vomit and sickening hangovers.
No teenage binge drinkers are far more habitual in their drug of choice. I remember learning that skull a tall glass filled with straight whisky was guaranteed to make the morning period a gas.
MacDonald's cups (large) are perfect for drinking goon. Skull away and bam you've just drunken 1.3litres of cheap ass wine (coz if you can't steal it fuck it if your going to pay top dollar to get fucked).
I recall in my later years my father (who was an alcoholic) explaining drinking a bottle of whisky within an hour or two would kill the average human (well himself).
Well thanks for telling me after I blacked out more times then I can remember (ha), waking up so many times blood all over me. The non-stop vomiting.
But the thing was when i realised that alcohol killed so many "ordinary" people. Binge drinking on the weekend and you don't expect to die, but that happens to people every weekend in this country.
But I don't think alcohol is the problem, just the same as with LSD, MDMA and family. Hell you'll find a significant quantity of problem drinkers, once they move off of the grog, simply move onto another denial producing addiction.
This leads to me my next point
2. restrict access, change the way we approach altering our consciousness. Admit this innate and all too human of needs and start dealing with it in a straight forward adult way.
I see the need for choice but not when it doesn't have competition. I want people to choice their drug addictions, spread them thin. Poly drug use.
Why because such a change in our regulations can only occur once we've completed point 1.
We need to stop treating people like children, refusing to talk about the hard issue. Why we drink our demons away and how hypocritical we deny (ever so failing) an opportunity to smoke theirs away.
Look we'll never rid this world of pain and anguish. People are always going to be fucked up and in turn fuck other people up, but at least we should be there for them.
Shits me to tears when I see these political football kick offs. Don't just sweep it under the bed thinking your big media campaign will hide the monster of junk that lurks under there.
Anyway probably not the thread.