drug use

For Those Using “Recreational Drugs”?

Question by muttlover: For those using “recreational drugs”?
I don’t care if stars do it. I don’t care if your friends do it. I don’t care if you think you can handle it. I have just left the funeral of my 23 year old niece. She was an absolutely gorgeous girl with blonde blonde hair and huge dark blue eyes. She was the baby of the family. She was a “mama’s girl” – very very close to her mother. When she was 15 she started experimenting with drugs. Her father had been a drug user in his youth but had managed to break free. He and her mother warned her repeatedly what she was doing, the dangers she was facing. They went in debt to send her to rehab. They flushed every drug they could find. Eventually they used up all of their money on paying fees and bonds when she could not hold down jobs. Finally they realized that she would never be willing to recover until she hit bottom. She flunked out of school. She never finished high school. She began to finance her habit by stealing her folk’s car and driving to Chicago on drug runs.
She used her beauty to get boyfriends to support her – often very abusive boyfriends. She stole from everyone. When she was coming for a visit we learned to hide all of our valuables. She lied and manipulated and used people. When she went through rehab, for a few months we’d have the old Brandy – the girl who wanted to be a nurse, who loved butterflies and pitbulls, who was kind and generous and good. But the drugs would call her back. And we’d have the hallucinating, manipulative, violent stranger again. Always she planned to quit eventually. She took her most treasured possessions to her mother’s house and asked her to hide them so she wouldn’t hock them. On Thursday she walked out on Rehab. On Saturday she was dead of an overdose. Please please don’t start. You cannot imagine the grief of her family. Her father is broken to pieces. Even her kitten, who stayed by her side those 5 hours till she was found, can not recover. Please don’t let this happen to your family. I’m begging.

How Many Aids Deaths in Usa in 2005?

Question by rjsandpas: how many aids deaths in usa in 2005?

Best answer:

Answer by Whispers of the Winds
Check out the aids epidemic update link below…

2005} Adult and child deaths due to AIDS: 30 000 [19 000–42 000]

In 10 – 15 Lines Critically Discuss 5 Ways in Which Substance Abuse Impacts on the Community?

Question by Matshidi: In 10 – 15 lines critically discuss 5 ways in which substance abuse impacts on the community?
Under the heading “SUBSTANCE ABUSE”

Best answer:

Answer by Indiana Frenchman
choose as you may; the web page (below) presents: Community Impact of Drug Abuse

What Does Drug Cross- Dependence Mean?

Question by sarah: what does drug cross- dependence mean?

Best answer:

Answer by Mathieu
It depends- there are several possible definitions:

1) Cross-dependence (also known as cross-addiction) means that a person is “addicted to everything.” Sometimes in an AA or NA meeting, for example, a person will say “I am (name) and I’m cross-addicted.”

2) Cross-dependency is also a theory in addictionology (not the same as addiction psychiatry or psychology) that a person who addicted to one drug (alcohol for example) can become addicted to any drug if they use it. Another view some take is that (to continue with the example) an alcoholic will not necessarily become addicted to amphetamine but by using another drug of abuse it will eventually lead the person back to their primary addiction, alcohol in this case.

Questions About Drug Abuse?

Question by Zugoo: Questions about drug abuse?
Hello, i have a project about drugs, but i need some questions to write about before i start.
Does anyone have any idea for some questions about how to fight drug abuse by teenagers?

Thank you!

Best answer:

Answer by Casey
Projects start with research.
Google ” Illegal drugs and teens”

or “Is marijuana addictive for some all or none.”

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/bla…

http://alcoholism.about.com/cs/pot/f/mjp…

http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/mariju…

http://www.5min.com/Video/Long-term-Affe…

How Do I Thank a Teacher?

Question by OakTownPlaya: How do i thank a teacher?
I’m attending rehab for drug use nd a teacher gave me a gift. how should I thank her? 4 x-mas i got a gift and thanked her for caring. What should i do if anything now? She is 1 of the few adults that really care and its weird cause shes a teach, shes chill tho. No BS please
WAIT sorry i already ready the book, should i tell her or pretend that i havent read it
Thanks everyone, a letter is what i will do. What hsould i do about the book