In the world we live in it is almost impossible to avoid some form of escapism be it good or bad in nature.

One of the greatest forms of escapism is narcotics which have been around since the days of Christ. 

However despite many types of drugs, and drug users from the recreational college marijuana experience to hardcore coke heads the general opinion of the public at large is that drugs are bad for the individual, and society.

In this article I hope to argue both sides of the cause to discover what the truth actually is to present the issue in a fair, and balanced fashion. To do this I will look at the historical use, of drugs, and argue from a common sense position for both legalisation, and banning of narcotics.

Are drugs bad

The first argument against having drugs legal always has been that the effects of drugs are detrimental to society, and the effects ranging from bodily effects like psychosis to the damage to people , and property caused by people under their influence is enough to justify the banning of drugs outright.

Despite this argument it can be said who are we to prevent others from destroying their own health but from an opposing view point a person despite probably destroying their own lives from employment to health from drug use, they should not be allowed to hurt others or, damage their property. 

It should be noted though not all drug use has been chaotic, and destructive, and it can be argued the experiences a user has, and manifests on others has not always being to the detriment to the user, and society for example many great songs, and ideas that created the world we live in, and saved, and created many lives be them economic or spiritual have come from narcotic users.

As an example George Washington himself was an avid drug user, and America’s first president, and his legacy still lives in the world we have today. So from an argumentative standpoint drug use is both negative, and positive and drugs can neither be labelled good or bad due to mixed perspectives, and personal experiences.

Do drugs cause crime?

Another argument against drug legalisation is that drugs will cause crime, and giving people legal highs will make the problem worse as drug use will spiral out of control causing a crime wave . From evidence to date in Holland where marijuana is legal for residents crime is rather stable from most citizens accounts, and despite increased marijuana use at first drug use has not reached a point of concern.

This is despite the famed gateway effect, and in Holland increased marijuana use did not lead on to heavy use of lethal cocaine or heroine. People who buy drugs off criminals at the end of the day usually do so for escapist reasons once lighter forms of escape prove futile for example Kurt Cobain whom suffered from extreme stomach pain only cured by heroine.

Many heavy drugs do indeed have positive uses but should that warrant them being legalised on mass perhaps not but will them legal lead to increased crime the answer is a resounding no for example prohibition ( banning) of America’s historic drug alcohol in the 30s increased crime to fever pitched proportions from daily murder to bootlegging.

Crime will probably be unaffected by drug legalisation as drug dealers will merely undercut the price of legal highs just as they do at the moment with cheap box’s of cigarettes.

Conclusion 

It can be seen from the above arguments their are no real clear cut reasons for the legalisation of drugs , and their are both benefits to be gained from having some use of drugs so perhaps the best that can be hoped for is a middle ground with some legalisation to gain some of the creative benefits of narcotics while avoiding the destructive influences of it. 

Probably due to period dramas and school history lessons, I think most of us have grown up wearing rose tinted glasses and thinking that the world encompassed a much more disciplined and moral social structure prior to the 1960s “years of enlightenment” so it may be interesting for you to discover that 100 years ago drugs were readily available for common consumption and, on the whole, governments considered alcohol abuse to be the greater evil.

Before the 1912 International Opium Convention narcotics were trafficked across the world with scant intervention by authorities but the 1912 Convention committed countries across the world to stop trading in opium (produced from the dried residue of poppies), morphine and cocaine.  On the whole this drug was supposedly used for its “anaesthetic properties” but needless to say, things had got a little out of hand and use for “recreation” began in earnest.

The US embraced this document wholeheartedly, and the British said they were happy to go along with it and sign it although perhaps not quite as enthusiastically as the US!  In fact, Britain had fought two wars against China back in the 1800s in favour of the importation of opium.

Pre 1912

The opium wars saw us good old stiff upper lipped Brits battling the Chinese as we regularly shipped copious amounts of the drug through India and into China before it finally arrived on the shores of our “Sceptred Isle”.  However, China viewed the drug much as we view it today and were keen to restrict the amount being trafficked through their country.

Joe Public in the UK was able to buy opium, cocaine and poisons such as arsenic readily over the chemist’s counter and it if you’d lived or worked in any of our major ports in the UK, you would have found it amongst ordinary cargo being unloaded, and in 1785 The Times actually listed opium from Symya (now called Izmir) in Turkey in amongst oil from Leghorn (now Livorno) in Italy and peas from Dantzic (now Gdansk) in Poland being unloaded from a ship in London.

I was particularly interested to learn that, come the early part of the 19th century, travellers coming into my sleepy little home county of Norfolk UK were warned not to drink the beers and ales served in taverns as it could well be laced with opium.  At that time, opium was considered to be a great boon to ward off malaria which flourished in our wide expanses of wetland, known as the fens.  I suspect this laced booze was most prevalent in Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn, our major ports.  But this drug was not only prescribed for malaria, it was also promoted as a cure for coughs and colds and was often given to “patients” for all manner of ailments in the form of laudanum – a concoction of opium mixed with alcohol.

Balmoral Castle, Scotland

Amongst the great and the good who were believed to have imbibed in this “wonder drug” were, most notably, Queen Victoria who ordered the stuff from the royal apothecary at Balmoral in Scotland and she is understood to have enjoyed a touch of opium gum with a very young Winston Churchill (later to become Prime Minister).

A Young Winston Churchill

And apparently Prime Minister William Gladstone took opium in his tea or coffee before he “took to the stage” when making speeches.  No wonder our British Empire turned to dust!!

In 1868 the Pharmacy Act was passed which restricted the use of opiates but, like so many Acts passed by the government over the years, it really wasn’t very effective.  It stated that any opium user had to provide a name, address and other personal details to the chemist before the drug could be handed over at the counter.

Limehouse, London (early 20th century)

Being an avid fan of Victorian history, it had, I suspect due to period dramas and Victorian based novels, been my belief that hundreds of bored aristocrats who had nothing better to do would lurk amongst the unruly and unwashed members of society in the east end of London doped up to their eyeballs on opiates or contracting sexually transmitted diseases from the vice dens, particularly those in Limehouse where the Chinese sailors settled but, according to recent research, there’s no real evidence that this was the case.  Thinking on it, I’m now considering that some aristocrats could undoubtedly be found there but feel it more likely that these “jolly good chaps” would prefer to mix with their own classes and imbibe in a gallon or two of good wine and have a flutter at the gaming tables, then stumble back to their gentlemen’s clubs to crash out in comfort and be waited on hand and foot following a “binge and a flutter” night.

Oscar Wilde

The belief that the upper crust of our British society spent hours in opium dens was further enhanced in Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” where he referred to the fact that you could “buy oblivion” and “horrors and memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new”.  However, around that time, the intake of opium which was considered a drug of misery was fast becoming old fashioned in favour of the more uplifting cocaine and of course, the most famous fictional character who took cocaine to lift his spirits was none other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes who injected it to lift him from depression. 

Arthur Conan Doyle

It also became particularly popular with the more Bohemian members of our society – those arty farty intelligentsia and often highly strung artistic people who maintained it was vital to open up their minds when they needed a spot of artistic stimulation.

Fortunately the US didn’t perceive cocaine as a vital artistic stimulant and were more concerned with the association there with street gangs and, ultimately, with the usual (and still prevalent!) propaganda that this drug sent “black men insane” and thereby put poor defenceless little white women at risk.  This obviously had a knock on effect to drive the US to sign up to the 1912 Act.

Post 1912

Although the Act undoubtedly reduced the importation of drugs it didn’t stop individual  users and when the Great War (World War I) broke out in 1914, opium and cocaine were still legal drugs in Great Britain.  During the second year of the war there was concern over the general intake of alcohol in the front-line ranks which it was considered may have a significant detrimental effect on the progress of the war so, in 1915 stricter licensing laws were passed which led to a hive of underground “vice dens” particularly in the more theatrical area of London, through which so many of our gallant troops travelled before being shipped overseas.  Some of our gallant troops it seems were not particularly “gallant” however, and on passing through London headed to the brothels or made good use of the prostitutes within this area and this was a criminal offence.  With the new strict drink licensing laws it soon became apparent that brothels were selling sex alongside the still readily available opium and cocaine.  The government therefore brought in emergency legislation to restrict the use of drugs.

Towards the end of the war in 1918 journalists were keen to find another outlet for “shock factor” articles and began delving more into the seedy side of drug taking, most notably amongst theatrical celebrities.  One of the most famous scandals was based around the death of popular actress Billie Carleton.

Billie Carleton

Billie had attended an opium party the night before her death in 1918 and the inquest revealed that she had died from an overdose of cocaine.  Her friend, one Reginald de Veulle was subsequently charged with manslaughter and conspiracy to supply a prohibited drug.  He had bought the drug from a woman called Ada and her Chinese husband Lau Ping You in Limehouse, London.  However, de Veulle was acquitted of the manslaughter charge but was found guilty of supplying Billie with the cocaine and for this crime he received an eight month prison sentence.  Ada was sentenced to five months hard labour and her husband was fined £10.

Eventually, in 1920, the emergency action which had been put into place during the war, was made permanent in the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1920.

Freda Kempton

Another case which caught the public’s attention in the media was that of Freda Kempton, a  young dancer, who was found dead after taking an overdose of cocaine in 1922.  The journalists, who it seemed were targeting the Chinese community in connection with any drug death incidents, had a field day with this case as it involved a “poor young woman” who had obviously been seduced by a Chinaman, an entrepreneur known as Billy “Brilliant” Chang. 

Billy “Brilliant” Chang

Freda had been with Mr Chang on the night she died.  Needless to say, this did nothing to aid inter-racial harmony and it became apparent that the Chinese community as a whole would come under fire from the “native” British people who now considered that every Chinese man was out to ensnare innocent white women with his charismatic manners and force them to use drugs.

However, following the Kempton case this panic amongst the British that cocaine was having a considerable effect on our innocent little women, the fire dwindled and was soon extinguished although drugs were known to be dealt in Limehouse and in the “red light district” of Soho and, once the drug laws came in banning the use of cocaine and opium, the problem was so insignificant it was easily dealt with by the police.

The real drug problem began after World War II during the “baby boom” period which saw the rise of rebellious teenagers throughout the 1950s and 1960s.  These young people, due to the more modern and speedier transport links, were able to travel further afield and those who were getting into drugs at the time travelled to Morocco to smoke hash or find areas where they could get hold of amphetamines.

It was at this time the police found they were beginning to have problems containing the importation and taking of drugs and their efforts weren’t helped by various powerful international cartels.

And as we all know, this problem is still rife today – it seems the governments and law enforcement agencies are fighting an ever losing battle to get this deadly crime under control and I suspect that despite their increased efforts to stamp out illegal drugs, sadly there’ll always be a criminal out there who can find a way of outwitting them.

I love the term self-help. It denotes the ability to help oneself overcome anything. In today’s world there are so many things for us to get depressed over we lose focus about the fact that we are in control. Maybe the loss of your job, or loss of a loved one, or life may not be where you would like it financially, spiritually, professionally, or personally. Whatever the case may be I am here to tell you that help is on the way. Luckily, help has arrived, because the person who is here to help is YOU! I like to say Overcome Don’t Become!  What does that mean? Simple, overcome your fear don’t become fearful, overcome addiction don’t become or stay an addict, overcome failure don’t become a failure, overcome negativity don’t become negative, overcome hatred don’t become hateful. Work on overcoming challenges or become a slave to them, but the extraordinary thing about it is the choice is yours and yours alone. Fantastic, but what do I do first? Simple stop blaming everyone and everything for your troubles, WAIT! I can hear everybody yelling at me already. Your situation is different. The universe is conspiring against you people are holding you back. Maybe your mother did not love you enough, a parent, or maybe both were alcoholics, or any of a million of other things have made life difficult for you. I get it there are a million challenges in life, but we have them. True some more severe than others, but they can all be overcome. There are many serious challenges that people have to overcome such as child abuse, sexual abuse, addiction, physical abuse, mental abuse and the list goes on forever. All of these things are horrible, but you cannot continue to blame your troubles on them and use them as your excuse as to why life sucks. You control these issues they do not control you. You are the only person who can stand up for yourself and say I will overcome! Remember Overcome Don’t Become!

The next step is making a list of all the things in life that truly suck, say for instance your job. Then under the heading of job list the reasons why you are doing that job, for example, to pay the bills and put food on the table. Then start thinking about how you got there in the first place, maybe you did not study hard enough in school, or you did not graduate high school, or just did not attend college, all, by the way, when you think about it, are your fault. Even if you quit school to work so you could help your family. It is still your fault; you have not gone back and finished your education. At the very least, you could have educated yourself in a trade, or set money aside even if it is a little at a time to be able to take a class here and there at the community college, or start a small business.

We can all make excuses I’m too old to start over, or I have health issues, or it will take five years to accomplish, and that is too long, or a number of other excuses. Remember start now, and if it takes five years to turn your life around, than it takes five years, so what, stop wasting time and get started. I am here to remind you of this one fact: Time never stops moving forward! So whether you start now and achieve the life you deserve five years from now, or you wait five years to start and achieve the life you want ten years from now, it does not matter to father time because he just keeps moving forward. So why not just start now, because I can guarantee this, five years from now you are going to wish you had started today regardless of how old you may be. When it comes down to it, we do not have the life we dream about because we simply do not want to put in the effort and time to achieve it. It is hard to work two jobs so that you can put money aside, or it is hard to sit in a classroom when you do not like school in the first place. It is difficult to get a divorce even though you are miserable or admit you need marriage counseling. People life is tough, and it never stops throwing challenges at you, but face it without challenges there would be no triumph and life would get a bit boring. Not everything that happens is under your control, but your response to it is. How you perceive things is under your control, and what you do to overcome them is up to you. So remember in your darkest hour ask yourself this question. Will I Overcome or will I Become? I am willing to bet you will find the strength to OVERCOME.

If sex has become something that is draining all aspects of life and even distanced himself from the life of the fair, showing symptoms of sex addiction.

For sex addicts, sex activity is not to be something fun and intimacy glue. But it turned into something that dominate life. Often, addicts sexually obsessive behavior with loss of pay and social kinship.

Similarly, drug addiction, sex addicts also need to receive treatment and rehabilitation. Approach to addiction proved equally effective for overcoming drug addiction.

Quoting Psych Central, there are differences in the treatment of drug addiction or alcohol with sex addiction treatment. In the treatment of sexual addiction, sexual abstinence is not something for life, but to stop compulsive behaviors and unhealthy behaviors.

Ph D Herkov sexologist Michael said the first phase of treatment carried out for 60-90 days. Usually to encourage the habit of eliminating compulsive sex offenders. Nursing also allows addicts and therapists understand the emotional cues that trigger a state not sexually compulsive behavior.

Focus Treatment

There are two main things, which broke away from dangerous sexual behavior, just as separate from drug addicts.

To be effective treatments generally require hospitalization for several weeks. This is to protect yourself so as not to access sexual images and situations that trigger compulsive sexual behavior. Compulsive behavior can recur at any time without strict controls.

For those who undergo outpatient treatment, compulsive behavior control must be supported by family members, social and spiritual strength is adequate.

While the second issue is the face of guilt, shame and depression-related disease. Need self-confidence and a therapist who is able to support the handling of emotions.

Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Stages of treatment typically consists of 12 steps, just like alcohol addiction treatment. However, different from the alcohol treatment away from alcohol altogether, treatments only deal with the sex addict compulsive behavior.

At the beginning, the approach taken to see what triggers compulsive sexual behavior. Afterwards, the addicts will be helped to stop the sexual thoughts and directing it to something else, like exercising or working, and prevent recurrence of addictive behaviors.

Interpersonal therapy

Sex addicts often have emotional baggage brought from life in childhood. Therapy ‘talk’ to help improve self-control and treat mood-related trauma of the past.

Group therapy

Generally takes place in a group containing 6-10 patients under the supervision of professional nurses. Discussion within the group allows participants to understand that the same problem also happened to someone else.

Confrontation with a fellow addict lets patients learn how to overcome the addiction of others’ experiences and to provide more strength and hope to quit his addiction.

Drug

Recent research has shown antidepressant is often useful to treat sex addiction. In addition to improving mood, some drugs are also used for reducing sexual obsessions.

What if this harmful chemical becomes an addictive substance which is not only inhaled but ingested?

Shannon, 20-year-old lady from Canada was featured in ‘My Strange Addiction’  became addicted to drinking gasoline. This addiction has started at young age. Now she consumes about 12 teaspoons per day. She has even drunk 5 gallons of gas in just one year! How alarming is this for her health.  But this is not the first case, it was also reported that a Chinese man consuming petrol for 42 years.

These are sad truths happening to youngsters and other people, which should really be given great attention.  Not only this kind of addiction, but all other addictions should be dealt.  It is sad for children, teens, and adults to be subjected to any kinds of activities.  These things may be controlled if parents keep an eye to their kids.  Supervision of parents is very important and children should also keep in their minds the dangers they are giving their bodies.  Remember we only have one body, one life, and we must love it.  Any addiction, any too much is dangerous for us.

 On the surface being famous looks great, you have money, flash cars and get whisked straight threw the door at the hottest clubs. Celebs look like they can have it all the husband, children and glam jobs. After all they don’t have to worry about who will look after their kids, they get a live in nanny and housekeeper to take care of their every need. 

And if your a A-lister and get in trouble with the law and break probation, don’t worry about it the judge won’t throw you in jail because you can’t do that to the rich and famous.

However there is a huge price to pay for all this luxury and some would say you might as well have sold your soul to the devil himself because all eyes are going to be on you twenty-four hours, seven days a week. The love of your life dumps you? The whole world will no about it in two seconds flat. You leave the house looking a state and hope no one will spot you? your scruffy hair and two day tracksuit bottoms will be put in every magazine.

worse of all if you not careful you could end up addicted to alcohol and drugs, being famous will not protect you from illness and death. We have lost hundreds of talented people due to addiction.

So before you this being famous and rich would be a dream come true, you might want to think about the darker side to fame  because its anything but a dream.

Ive always been someone that i wouldnt say looks down on life but i do feel like I have a life that could be a little better. Last year was really good because i had just got into a very close relationship and it was good for a while and i loved her. Then one day she decided to break up with me; but we will get back to her later. after the break up i became very depresed more than i had ever been and started to go to a tharapist. he helped for a while and then i stoped going and life was good.

Then came the death of my grandfather. They had told him 7 years ago that he had only 9 months left to live which is amazing he lived so long after that he was indeed very strong. This did not come to me as a shock because i could see him geting closer to death. it did make me sad and i did cry at the funeral which was very beautiful as well. But what really got me upset was when i found out my father had become drinking alot right before my grandfather pased away. My father had atended a rehab center multiple times before never staying as long as he was saposed to though. but this time seemed really bad for some reason. two weeks after my grandfather died my aunt talked to my dad about going to rehab and he finaly had broke and went. this time staying for his full term. when he returned he was very upset because it was really the first time he thaught about his father passing away because when he did pass away he was drunk all the time. slowly dad began to get over the death of his father but we all still miss him.

Earlier in the year a 16 year old boy that i knew not so well but i knew many friends of him commited suicide. this was devistating for everyone in the county because many people did know him. He was a very smart kid but he always said he was going to do it when people made fun of him or even joked about it but they always thaught he was kidding and then he finaly did it… this was especialy devistating for me because even though we were not close i still knew him and i knew many people who were very close to him . my best friend had goten a tattoo on his arm in honor of him because they were good friends. i saw many of my friends change because of it and thats what really got to me. not because i was mad but i felt bad i wished i could help. and in a way im thankful that that boy did such a thing to help me remember how it effects everyone even if you didnt know them.

Soon after my best friend was sent to the hospital because he now has a disease in his kidneys but the doctors still dont know what it is. at fist they just thaught it was kidney stones but soon after they discoverd it was not and he is now geting explorative surgery but the family dose not have the money for the doctors. I have tryd to raise money for them because they cant even heat their own house because they are trying to save money for their son. Just last summer he lost his uncle to cancer which was caused by a disease that the doctors believe that matt (my friend) may have. every day i pray that he doesnt have it because i dont want it to cause cancer in his body like it did his uncle. and now just yesterday actually he was muged by some kids on the street at gun point with another friend of mine. they took both of their phones and their wallets. i only ask for your prayers for my friend matt and his family in this time of need . they have many other troubles in their lives as well. he himself is strugeling with drug addictions like my father and his parents dont know what to do. his mother works 2 jobs and his father works 12 hours a day at the least.

My ex girlfriend had just broken up with her boyfriend they dated for about 8 to 9 months and now he is going crazy. he posts all over her wall saying stuff on facebook and he texts and calls all the time. she cant move on with him acting like this and it makes things hard for her. she asked me the other day to say somthing to him about it because we have become good friends lately (me and my ex) and when i mentiond it to him he snaped and started talking about fighting. and then made fun of me for some stupid stuff but then he said somthing that took every emotion out of me and i dont even know how to explain how i felt. i didnt know he knew this but i had attempted suicide multiple times. the thing he said i dont remember exact but he braught up me trying to attempt suicide a while ago. he made fun of me for it and it just made me feel so confused. i didnt trust my ex anymore because she said she wouldnt tell anyone not even him and i was angry, very very angry at the time i wanted him dead , and then he told me that they had started to date before she even broke up with me which made me lose even more trust for her, infact i dont even want to talk to her anymore. I hate when people cheat even if it isint them cheating on me. he told me many things that i dont want to even say that just broke my heart. i had thaught she loved me after all…

Just the other day a 19 year old boy passed away he was well known all around this area. he died in a head on head collision which both trucks have been almost completly destroyed in the acident. I never met the boy but it just is another one of those things where i feel like death is all around me and he was a good boy. he didnt deserve to die like that. hes too young. the other man was a family friend of ours who was just recently divorced and now hes up in some hospital in a city far away. i dont know much about him or where he even is but as far as i know he is still alive and i pray that he is going to live on after this day and many more to come.

I know everyone has pain in their life i always have. there are plenty more things i couldve writen about too sadley… all i ask is that those who truely care just pray or wish? whatever you may think about it if your religious or not. thankyou for reading this.

Sometimes we name as good that which feels good to us. We usually name as evil that which makes us uncomfortable or which harms us. This would seem to be a fair definition of evil until you remember that many things to which people become addicted feel good in the beginning of the addiction but carry with them the chains of slavery.

The question for the people of the USA is whether they will accept Rick Santorum’s definition of evil, or Barak Obama’s definition of evil. It may help us to realize that addiction feels good when one is in the first stages of the addiction. Barak Obama says we will never have to feel any pain. To be honest I hesitate to believe anyone who says I will never have to feel pain. I’ve been an addict for most of my life to the point where I am intimately familiar with the chains that I once bound on so enthusiastically.

With that in mind I am tentatively inclined to believe Rick Santorum even when he names the name of Satan as the root of many of the social ills that beset the USA and the world. This is because I believe those who would say, ‘You really don’t believe that Satan exists?’ are wrong.

© 2012 Vic Jones

Still apathy doesn’t take away anyone’s misery; it only makes them feeling more lost, unable to relate to their own challenges in life. The outcome is a dysfunctional society of roaming islands lost in their battles of ego, pettiness, helplessness and sufferings rather than reaching out to one another with a noble heart. Hence a host of newer challenges like depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, criminality, etc. arise out of it to make the average life of people and society more troublesome. Therefore I feel human apathy is like a vicious cycle that entangles many people with their self-created monsters generating out of an apathetic heart!

Therefore we need to be empathetic not only for the betterment of the world but also for our own personal well-being as well. Just thinking about the challenges people face now-a-days in life it is very difficult to narrow it down to a few. Even though challenges in life happens to be an individual thing at most times, but if we were to generalize it in a national context then still there would be a host of different kinds of challenges. For example, in a relatively poorer nation meeting the basic needs of life is at most times a humongous challenge for the average inhabitant. On the other hand the common people of a developed country face totally contrasting challenges ranging from job insecurity to inflation and to even recession also. To fester along with such common challenges there are a host of challenges of a different kind based on the socio-economic factors of a country that vary from discrimination due to caste, creed, religion, race, ethnicity, sex or social status.

Hence it is very much evident that the life of an average individual anywhere in the world is fraught with various kinds of troubles and if anyone’s personal troubles add to it then it gets even tougher. There is a famous adage that says, ‘When the going gets tough, the tough gets going’ and certain people thrive exactly under such difficult circumstances but it also is to be noted that it wears down many people. When people are generally overwhelmed by challenges then they look for an escape route and at most times it is a negative one. Thus if they last to see the next daylight then their life gets even more miserable because of the ways they decide to relate to their problems. It is a global phenomenon and with the increase in the world population it is going to escalate by the day till it reaches a breaking point.

So I feel instead of focusing on the problems only if we were to search for solutions on a global scale then we all have to become more empathetic towards one another, no matter where we reside. That will make us humble and help us in meeting our own challenges in life with humility, a necessary virtue that is required to assess a troublesome situation properly and look for the necessary pro-active actions. If the human sufferings happening somewhere else doesn’t pain our hearts then how would we be able to reach out to others? We would then remain trapped in our claustrophobic world of problems, searching for a way out in futile. Thus if we were to make the world a better place of living for every human being then we should visualize ourselves as global citizens with a heart filled with empathy for others!

1.Practical tips on being chaste and judging a relationship’s chance of success:

www.chastity.com

2.An excellent website from a courageous ministry in India that empathizes with the difficulties that young adults face:

www.morelove.in

3.Help for the one experiencing homosexual attraction:

www.couragerc.net

4.Kick pornographic addiction and lead a full life:

www.pornnomore.com

5.Sexaholics Anonymous:

www.sanon.org