So You Think It’s Cool to Do Drugs?

So You Think It’s Cool To Do Drugs?

Is it cool to die? You do not do drugs…Drugs do you!

People have been taking drugs in one form or another since the beginning of time and I suspect they always will. For whatever reasons, a lot of us are not comfortable in our own skins and heads and we feel the need to change ourselves. We want to feel better. There is nothing wrong with this pursuit of happiness as our forefathers tried to guarantee us.

What needs to be changed are the methods in which we try to improve our mental health. There are many non-drug ways to achieve a different mental state. Yoga, meditation, exercise, healthy activities are just some examples of non-drug ways to make ourselves feel better.

Until science discovers a drug that will elevate our mood beyond our current pharmacology of antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs, without harming the host, we need to Just Say No! Nancy Reagan was ridiculed for this mantra when she first proposed it but she was definitely onto something.

Although Just Say No sounds good, it is not the whole package. The mantra alone will not prevent kids from doing drugs. It must be backed up by strong parental control, diligent efforts on the part of our schools and our society in general. We must put as much effort into an anti-drug campaign as we are doing in the anti-tobacco campaign.

The War on Drugs is a joke. As long as there is big government money to be made on drugs the effort to thwart drugs will be nothing more than lip service.

It is easier to not do drugs than it is to try to stop doing drugs!

Every 20 minutes there is a drug death in this country alone

It’s estimated that one American dies every 20 minutes from a drug overdose. While you’re sitting at home watching your favorite one hour TV show, 3 Americans will have died during that same time from drugs.

Science is discovering that there is an addiction gene. Unfortunately, the discovery of this addiction comes only after you’re already addicted. It’s like playing Russian Roulette the first time you do your first hit of cocaine. Some people have actually died from their very first experiment with this drug.

Perversely, most people don’t die from their first hit so they live to go on and do more and more of the drug until ultimately their lives are ruined beyond repair or they eventually do succumb to the drug.