ICE---Ticket to Hell
October 28th 2006 08:25
The reality reads like the traits for an actor of a horror movie: psychosis; uncontrollable aggression; brain damage; heart damage; disorientation; depression; rotting teeth; festering sores; malnutrition, and if that ain't enough, the increasing inability to experience pleasure.
Obviously this isn't an ordinary illicit drug we're dealing with here. Yes, heroin is bad, so is cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana---all have life-destroying properties. What makes this new high-potency amphetamine different is a combination of price, availability, and rapidity of addiction. Heroin and cocaine certainly have addictive properties, however, heroin makes first time users violently ill, and cocaine is a niche market drug, high-priced and hard to get unless you're 'in the know'. Ice on the other hand is everywhere, made in backyard labs and priced for the cash strapped teenage market.
As hospitals look at installing new 'lock down' rooms to contain violent users, as gaols struggle to cope with criminal users undergoing violent withdrawls, the escalation of road-rage, work-rage, and rage in general, something more needs to be done. And now!
For users there is only one path, stop and seek professional help. For the lives of our precious children, education is the only way. Governments need to get into the schools, use the mass-media like they have with the 'quit smoking' campaigns. Push and keep pushing! This needs to be done yesterday, before a whole generation is lost.
PW
Obviously this isn't an ordinary illicit drug we're dealing with here. Yes, heroin is bad, so is cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana---all have life-destroying properties. What makes this new high-potency amphetamine different is a combination of price, availability, and rapidity of addiction. Heroin and cocaine certainly have addictive properties, however, heroin makes first time users violently ill, and cocaine is a niche market drug, high-priced and hard to get unless you're 'in the know'. Ice on the other hand is everywhere, made in backyard labs and priced for the cash strapped teenage market.
For users there is only one path, stop and seek professional help. For the lives of our precious children, education is the only way. Governments need to get into the schools, use the mass-media like they have with the 'quit smoking' campaigns. Push and keep pushing! This needs to be done yesterday, before a whole generation is lost.
PW
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