The problems of drug abuse change over time. The most popular illicit drug today may have been low in popularity four or five years ago and will be forgotten tomorrow. Now, prescription drug addiction is coming into it’s own, so to speak.
Officials are finding that many young people who are using or are even addicted to heroin actually started by abusing prescription drugs such as hydrocodone and oxycodone. Then when their supplies of pills ran short, they found that heroin satisfied as well.
I don’t normally post videos from other sources, but this affected me so hard when I saw it, I just had to share. Our international efforts need to be multiplied by a factor of 5000!
I was asked in a high school class again today, “What is the war against drugs?” It seems an easy question to field, but I found myself stumbling on my answer.
The phrase itself is an obvious misnomer, The War on Drugs? What do they do, line the drugs up against a wall and machine-gun them down?
Or do we declare war on anything we feel unable to overcome? The war on poverty, the war on illiteracy, and the war on just about anything you really can’t face. It doesn’t make much sense.
The more I hear about heroin addiction in the Iran and Afghanistan regions, the more I speak about heroin and opium in high schools and community groups in the US. We’ve seen an increase in addiction here in California, and, heroin is one of the biggest “gainers”.
Here is a video that shows some surprising numbers in Iran, but a few pages further you’ll see a video from Afghanistan about opium that will break your heart.
I was surprised to have someone in a parent group ask me if “Huffing” was still a problem in their school, especially since it was a Jr. High school.
Huffing is the intentional inhalation of breathable chemicals for the purpose of achieving a high. This is also called inhalant abuse, and has produced a long history of damages, ruined lives and deaths. It is almost always more prevalent in middle schools, grades 6-8.
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The problems of drug abuse change over time. The most popular illicit drug today may have been low in popularity four or five years ago and will be forgotten tomorrow. Now, prescription drug addiction is coming into it’s own, so to speak.
