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A User's Guide to Speed brochure available to teens at anti-drug program in Toronto
By Bruce McDougall
The Daily Telegraph
November 24, 2008 01:46am

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Controversy ... a brochure displayed to up to 100 Year 8 students at a community information day contains "tips to avoid getting bad speed".

TEENAGE school students have been given access to a controversial brochure called A User's Guide to Speed while attending a NSW Government-promoted anti-drug and alcohol program.

The 35-page booklet, included among drugs literature displayed to up to 100 Year 8 students and parents during a community information day, contains a section on "tips to avoid getting bad speed".

In it, teenage readers are told: "If you don't already have a reliable dealer, try to find one and stick with them.

"When you're using a new batch, only try a little at first ... you can always use the rest later if you need to."

The booklet's availability during workshops at the Toronto Courthouse near Newcastle - along with another on "Choosing to use" that was ordered to be pulped in June by former Health Minister Reba Meagher - has outraged anti-drugs campaigners.

Produced by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, the user's guide tells teens amphetamine-related speed can suppress appetite and help in weight loss.

Users are urged to take breaks from using speed, allow time to "come down" so it doesn't interfere with work or study and to carry the phone number of a legal aid solicitor with them.

One of the authors, drugs educator Paul Dillon, said yesterday the brochure's presence at the community day was an "unfortunate mistake".

Mr Dillon said the resource, produced to help amphetamine users cut down or quit the habit, was inappropriate for 14 and 15-year-old high school students.

"You have got to be very careful about the message you are delivering to young people," he said.

Mr Dillon, who had no involvement in the community day, said the booklet probably was among a selection of material provided by an agency asked to exhibit.

In promoting the community day Attorney-General John Hatzistergos said high school students would learn about the damaging effects of alcohol and other drugs.

Last night a spokesman for Mr Hatzistergos said the Government did not condone the use of illegal drugs.

"The Attorney-General's Department is looking into if, how and why this brochure turned up at a court open day," he said.

No Way campaigner Darren Marton, one of the guest speakers at the education event, said the material should never have been seen by teenagers.

"Those who ran the community day are at no fault in this - it is material produced from harm minimisation (advocates) and put there by others," he said.

"One lady who was helping out on the day was physically shaken and had to go outside in tears after reading the brochure."

Opposition education spokesman Andrew Stoner said a drugs guide was the last thing parents and their children needed.

"Students would be better served being in the classroom rather than at a workshop on drugs," Mr Stoner said yesterday.
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What so because the government tries to educate kids so they are less likely to do damage to themselves it's a mistake?
It's the way of the future.

People are going to do drugs forever.
The more you know the safer you are.

Thats why this site even exists.

We need more of this.
 
re: 14/15yo speed users getting access to how to use speed booklets

in reply anonymously to http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?t=406241

If anybody at any age is already into using amphetamines then why can't real information be available. Not that I condone the use of street drugs, especially meth these days as, basically the cops have fucked it all up and most of it is very badly synthed and cut and can be pretty unhealthy when injected.

In my school in lets say a busy but country coast like NSW area, Year 7 kids smoked bongs. In year eight they were given pretty potewnt "base" was always crystaline and stronger than "ice" is on the streets today. Sometimes it was wet or powder but always strong.

Anyway just into the second term of year 8 a large group decided to inject it, so they'd be on gear every day, in class injecting out the back etc. and smoking bongs to calm or come down.
Stealing cars, stealing neighbours stuff to hock, hocking their own stuff. Some of them became really bad and went on stolen car rampages or injured people. Alot of them are in jail now, maybe if this information was available to them when they were 12 ior 13, 14 etc. It could of saved them from going to jail or the loony bin or just totally drugfucked for life. There was no other drugs really used by students besides dexxies and mushrooms. IV Meth and cannabis was a pretty big problem at our big public school. as well as pedophile teachers but thats another story all together.
 
^ lol.

I'd like to see what that woman would do after watching just one viewing of the news.
 
You'd have to be pretty fucking ignorant to be 'outraged' or what have you by this booklet.

I don't have children, but if, say, my 14 y/o sister started doing speed, then I'd be damn sure to educate her on the harms and risks, as well as making sure she got quality gear. The speed show in Australia is dodgy as fuck.
 
Hypocritical

"Students would be better served being in the classroom rather than at a workshop on drugs," Mr Stoner said yesterday.
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Yes, because as we all know Mr Stoner is a well established anti drugs campaigner. And mr baker is allergic to any kind of flour or grain.
 
malakaix said:
^ lol.

I'd like to see what that woman would do after watching just one viewing of the news.
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Exactly... I mean, the idea of a woman breaking down after reading a booklet on how reducing harm associated with speed use is beyond words, it's thrown me off you could say.

If in fact that is true (I don't trust that No Way guy), then there has to be more to it; a close friend or family member who has had their life affected by methamphetamine use?
 
I have a hard copy of this booklet. It's made specifically for a drug using audience, the kind of booklet suitable for distributing at a treatment centre or needle exchange. I agree with Dillon; it's not the sort of thing you would expect to be distributed at a school to teenagers.

I think HR info should be available but it needs to be in the right context, IMHO.
 
If you acknowledge that kids are going to be exposed to drugs themselves, what harm is a booklet possibly going to do? Anyone with common sense who read that booklet would realize its message was to help people and not to encourage risk taking behaviour, but to try and decrease it.
 
drug_mentor said:
If you acknowledge that kids are going to be exposed to drugs themselves, what harm is a booklet possibly going to do? Anyone with common sense who read that booklet would realize its message was to help people and not to encourage risk taking behaviour, but to try and decrease it.
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How very true.
However you may notice through out todays soceity that common sense, has been named wrong and is not so common.
 
"One lady who was helping out on the day was physically shaken and had to go outside in tears after reading the brochure."
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Moronic reactions like this were one of the things that first made me want to try drugs, to try and distance myself as far as possible from these people
 
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