‘Taking drugs regularly is normal’

[Inso]

lol......

I would have to agree with alot of it, my uni campus last year had drugs comin outta the goddamn walls.

 

[7zark7]

I dont know what thaqt guys talking about, but with E you get hangovers. LoL Shur they are not the typical sick feeling hangover from alcohol. But you do get a very sketchy, depressing, brain draining hangover that leaves one mentally drained and tired for like a day or 2, for some people it can even last up to a week.

But, i guess if u take ecstasy in moderation, like once evert month or 2 you dont get that bad of a hangover, but you still feel shitty.

Don't think I have ever felt shitty for doing pills. I usually feel tired if I haven't slept - but if I do sleep and eat a little, as well as drinking water, I don't feel bad in any way. I feel a little different, but it doesn't stop me from getting on with my day.

Hangovers, on the other hand kill me, and I am a mess for up to a week afterwards. It's all down to the person.

 

[black peter]

i actually kind of agree with the point of the article, tho..... i've often looked around myself, seen people doing everything in the book, normal kids my age (early 20s) coke, heroin, E yada yada yada and wondered.. is this normal? i mean, yeah i know people were getting fucked up in the 60's and ever since.... and here were are in the year 2008, has society reached a new plateau of drug use? or has it always been this way....?

 

[vancbc]

I've never gotten hangovers like that on MDMA, though I always take molly and not pressed pills. I actually tend to have an afterglow for a day or so afterwards.

Your comment makes me think you either haven't used E for very long or else you are one of the wise people like I wasn't and have used a lot of moderation.

Five years of using molly quite regularly and at sometimes ridiculously high doses, I know all about those week long hangovers with extreme sketch, brain drain, depression.

For about the first year and a half I always had that great afterglow as well.

Or maybe you're just one of those extremely lucky people who just don't get hangovers, no matter what. If so, I envy you!

 

[Mr Blonde]

in the year 2008, has society reached a new plateau of drug use? or has it always been this way....?

It's probably a case of more being available, and much easier to obtain.

Drugscope’s policy is that no illegal drug is safe. “The key message is that there are too many unknowns,” says Shapiro

You could say the same thing about alcohol. A lady who used to work at my high school, handling the chemicals for our chem class, had a daughter who has a major allergy to alcohol. Luckily they found out about it pretty early, before she reached the partying age, but imagine if when she reached 16 she hadn't known about it and went out and slammed down a few shots. She probably would have required hospitalization, in fact her life would have been at risk.

 

[sixpartseven]

It advises students not to take alcohol and drugs together, particularly alcohol and cocaine, but adds “ . . . set yourself limits, such as one alcoholic drink per line, if you are hellbent on doing it”.

Great advice!

With my tolerance of about 2 beers to be buzzed (what do you expect? Im 125 pounds and drink like 4 times a year), so if I didnt know any better, id drink about 25 times as many drinks than normal if I followed that logic.

Isnt this from a pamphlet from Oxford? Id expect better.

 

[aroma6]

This just in! Kids eat drugs! Oh my newsreel, it must be a fresh generation for the media!

And yeah cocaine and alcohol together are really bad for your heart, I'm pretty grossed out by cocaine in general since its mostly <60% when it gets to the US.

 

[xorcist]

many people act as if drugs and the problems that come with them have come about recently, but they haven't. as long as there have been civilizations, there have been drugs. just look at the past, there was an entire war based on the sale of opium. when that was later refined into morphine and given out like candy during the civil war, there was a huge drug epidemic created thereafter. after that there was cocaine, a new miracle drug that was used to treat anything and everything from a toothache to morphine addiction. when heroin was discovered it was then used to treat cocaine addiction and created a whole new epidemic. alcohol too has been around for a very long time, as well as pot and mushrooms. drugs have been an issue for thousands of years, first embraced and rejoiced as miracle cures, traded and refined, then blamed for all of societies issues and outlawed. then repeat. over and over and over. the drugs aren't the problem, if they are a problem at all. its part of human nature to long for just something that can stimulate you besides the world around you itself. that need or curiosity will probably never change. any article like this just boggles me as to how its even newsworthy and who deemed it so. its just an endless cycle of love and hate and i just wished that people of power would realize that as long as there are human beings with brains, there will be drugs and people who seek them and want to do them. i just wished that for once somebody in power somewhere would acknowledge that its not the drugs that cause these issues in society, its just human nature. as soon as someone is able to do that, shit like this won't be in the news anymore. i kind of went off on a tangent here, but all i'm saying is that drugs always have and always will be a scapegoat for a lot of societies problems, when in reality many of these outlawed drugs could be studied more thoroughly and given a purpose for the greater good, instead of concentrating on the impossible task and endless waste of money on stopping all drug flow. all of the money wasted on that, the time wasted on reporting stupid shit like this could be used for so many things that could actually help people, not point blame at what's wrong with society today.

/end rant.

(sorry if i went off topic, subox and a little bit of booze and i away my fingers go on teh keyboard heh)

 

[DarkCode]

Funny how the study doesn't talk about how the usage data of the student population is equal to the percentages if you were to examine the percentage of the population that uses marijuana. Just so you all have an idea of how these figures connect.. I'll quote a study done by the JFA Institute that was published November 2nd, 2005:

"First it must be emphasized that marijuana, despite its criminalization, is widely used by a large proportion of the US population. The most recent national survey conducted by the US Government reported that 25.8 million people or nearly one out of ten US residents use marijuana at least once a year and over 6% of the population uses the drug on a monthly basis. The lifetime use estimate of marijuana is a hefty 95 million, meaning that 47% of all adults have tried marijuana at least once."

Hmm.. so when you look at the usage of teenagers compared to adults in general, you see that while the percentage whom have tried drugs is about the same, the smaller sample size of the student population finds that there is about a quarter of all students using drugs within the past year compared to 1 in 10 adults, or about an 8th of all students using within the past month, compared to only 6% of all adults. Its not a huge difference, yes it is a decent number of people either way, but its easily debated that the percentage's margin of error the result of the smaller sample size makes the student only study less accurate than a study of the entire adult population which includes the student population, and is about the same results.

 

[NeoLime]

Students in america

I the West Coast of the US, college age drug use is frequent and varied. According to my numbers nearly 60% of all students at my college use recreational drugs. Substances such as Adderal, Ambien, Marijuana, Hashish, LSD, Mushooms, Meth-amphetamine, and others are commonly used and moderately accepted in this culture.