bikki_muncher69
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Hey fello BL's! After being inspired by the government banning pill testing at raves i thought id cover the issue for my year 12 english oral and would love some feedback ITS IN THE INTRESTS OF HARM MINIMISATION!!! 8) :D
Yr 12 english oral by bikki_muncher69
CAROLYN WEBB was an attractive and sociable young woman. The former secretary loved partying and by all accounts was a devoted mother to her little son Daniel. Now six-year-old Daniel has been left an orphan. His mother "took what she believed was the ravers drug Ecstasy but which turned out to PMA, a dangerous adulterant similar to the effects of ecstasy but which is highly toxic and cooks the body inside out”
Good morning Mr. ***** and fellow classmates, in recent times the issue of making pill testing at rave parties available to party goes has sparked a heated debate after Melbourne based harm minimization group, Enlighten was told they would face prosecution from police if they went ahead with pill testing, at a south Australian rave in November. Enlighten has conducted tests like this before illegally with great success, but the government has stepped in with its tough on drugs policy stating that this type of testing is not accurate and that it will do more harm than good. The governments reasoning behind this is that it gives people a false sense of security and promotes illegal drug taking behavior at parties as being “ok”. Enlighten and Medical experts have lashed back at government officials claiming that the government has no regard for the lives of young people arguing that to stop pill testing is much more dangerous than allowing it. It was no surprise that during the rave 3 people were taken to hospital suffering overdose symptoms following taking a mystery green pill, if enlighten were testing at this event these overdoses could possibly have been prevented.
Humans have been altering their consciousness for thousands of years and will continue to regardless of the laws put forth by society. Popular drugs like ecstasy or known by its chemical name MDMA are sought after by users due to the stimulating and empathetic effects that it gives. In a world fueled by greed Drug cooks will often cut pills with other dangerous substances known as adulterants, to try and mimic the effects of MDMA. The problem with adulterants is that some cause your body to heat up to dangerously high levels causing vital organs to shut down resulting in death. In many cases the victims have had no idea until it is too late, in an attempt to save lives this is why pill testing should be made available. The government states that the current testing methods are inaccurate and users may get a false sense of security, Enlighten harm reduction has stated that in the past this had been true but now with the availability of a new technology called an ion mobility scanner, tests can now be conducted within seconds returning a very accurate result. Ion mobility scanners are used at most international airports to identify drugs and explosives, Enlighten was hoping to debut this new technology at the south Australian rave.
At the winter Enchanted rave party last July, where Enlighten tested 50 pills one girl discarded her pills after an adulterant Ketamine, a veterinary anesthetic showed up in the test, this is solid proof that pill testing is an effective means of harm reduction. Pill testing not only gives useful information to the users on the contents of what’s in a certain pill, it is also very valuable information for medical authorities so if a person comes in to hospital in a condition caused by a pill, they can quickly discover the drug contained in the pill that’s causing the problem and treat the patient fast and effectively. "Parents need to ask themselves: do they want to know what (their) kids are taking or do they want to find out at autopsy," says Dr Caldicott a doctor who has seen many of these unfortunate cases.
Another argument that the government has put forward is that drug dealers might use this to their advantage somehow getting false testing information through enlighten, some government officials have even questioned enlightened funding, at the idea they might receive funding from drug dealers. Of coarse this is a totally ridiculous statement as enlighten are a private organization purely interested in methods of harm reduction at which most donations are from medical body’s and through the sale of reagent testing kits.
To conclude this issue I leave you with this, statistic’s show one in five people will try ecstasy at some stage in their life; you may not think it now, but this issue will affect you and possibly the lives of your best friends. Harm minimization is no dubitably a very effective means of reducing the risk of drug use and possibly consumption. The government has to face the facts and realize that the war on drugs is a loosing battle and move forward to harm minimization instead of backwards at the already statistically proven failing prohibition. Government scare tactic’s do hardly much to discourage use of a drug widely accepted by the youth culture, so to preserve the lives of our youth this is why pill testing should be made available at raves so that horror stories like Carolyn Webb hopefully never happen again.
*edit* just removed your name and your teacher's name
-kat
Yr 12 english oral by bikki_muncher69
CAROLYN WEBB was an attractive and sociable young woman. The former secretary loved partying and by all accounts was a devoted mother to her little son Daniel. Now six-year-old Daniel has been left an orphan. His mother "took what she believed was the ravers drug Ecstasy but which turned out to PMA, a dangerous adulterant similar to the effects of ecstasy but which is highly toxic and cooks the body inside out”
Good morning Mr. ***** and fellow classmates, in recent times the issue of making pill testing at rave parties available to party goes has sparked a heated debate after Melbourne based harm minimization group, Enlighten was told they would face prosecution from police if they went ahead with pill testing, at a south Australian rave in November. Enlighten has conducted tests like this before illegally with great success, but the government has stepped in with its tough on drugs policy stating that this type of testing is not accurate and that it will do more harm than good. The governments reasoning behind this is that it gives people a false sense of security and promotes illegal drug taking behavior at parties as being “ok”. Enlighten and Medical experts have lashed back at government officials claiming that the government has no regard for the lives of young people arguing that to stop pill testing is much more dangerous than allowing it. It was no surprise that during the rave 3 people were taken to hospital suffering overdose symptoms following taking a mystery green pill, if enlighten were testing at this event these overdoses could possibly have been prevented.
Humans have been altering their consciousness for thousands of years and will continue to regardless of the laws put forth by society. Popular drugs like ecstasy or known by its chemical name MDMA are sought after by users due to the stimulating and empathetic effects that it gives. In a world fueled by greed Drug cooks will often cut pills with other dangerous substances known as adulterants, to try and mimic the effects of MDMA. The problem with adulterants is that some cause your body to heat up to dangerously high levels causing vital organs to shut down resulting in death. In many cases the victims have had no idea until it is too late, in an attempt to save lives this is why pill testing should be made available. The government states that the current testing methods are inaccurate and users may get a false sense of security, Enlighten harm reduction has stated that in the past this had been true but now with the availability of a new technology called an ion mobility scanner, tests can now be conducted within seconds returning a very accurate result. Ion mobility scanners are used at most international airports to identify drugs and explosives, Enlighten was hoping to debut this new technology at the south Australian rave.
At the winter Enchanted rave party last July, where Enlighten tested 50 pills one girl discarded her pills after an adulterant Ketamine, a veterinary anesthetic showed up in the test, this is solid proof that pill testing is an effective means of harm reduction. Pill testing not only gives useful information to the users on the contents of what’s in a certain pill, it is also very valuable information for medical authorities so if a person comes in to hospital in a condition caused by a pill, they can quickly discover the drug contained in the pill that’s causing the problem and treat the patient fast and effectively. "Parents need to ask themselves: do they want to know what (their) kids are taking or do they want to find out at autopsy," says Dr Caldicott a doctor who has seen many of these unfortunate cases.
Another argument that the government has put forward is that drug dealers might use this to their advantage somehow getting false testing information through enlighten, some government officials have even questioned enlightened funding, at the idea they might receive funding from drug dealers. Of coarse this is a totally ridiculous statement as enlighten are a private organization purely interested in methods of harm reduction at which most donations are from medical body’s and through the sale of reagent testing kits.
To conclude this issue I leave you with this, statistic’s show one in five people will try ecstasy at some stage in their life; you may not think it now, but this issue will affect you and possibly the lives of your best friends. Harm minimization is no dubitably a very effective means of reducing the risk of drug use and possibly consumption. The government has to face the facts and realize that the war on drugs is a loosing battle and move forward to harm minimization instead of backwards at the already statistically proven failing prohibition. Government scare tactic’s do hardly much to discourage use of a drug widely accepted by the youth culture, so to preserve the lives of our youth this is why pill testing should be made available at raves so that horror stories like Carolyn Webb hopefully never happen again.
*edit* just removed your name and your teacher's name
-kat
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