Drugs
Effect of Drugs and their Street Names
Legalization: Solution
of the Drugs Problem
Drug Dealers out of Business... No more "pushers" in streets and
schools... End of Drugs Crime
How to Quit Drug-Addiction
The Effect of Drugs and Street Names
1- Stimulants: Cocaine, amphetamines, caffeine, ecstasy, nitrites,
anabolic stero
They increase brain
activity.
2-
Sedatives: Marijuana, barbiturates, alcohol...
Reduce brain
activity
3- Narcotics and
Analgesics: Opium, heroine, morphine, methadone, speedball.
They produce a drowsy
state and calm pain
4- Hallucinogens:
LSD, PCP (angel dust), peyote (mescaline), inhalants, magic mushrooms, marijuana
They alter the way you
perceive things
Some of them have different effects depending on the doses and the individual.
Cocaine:
(rock, crack, coke, snow, flake, uptown, toot, girl, wiff).
Inhaled or injected gives euphoria in a few seconds, for one hour.
"Crack", smoked, intense effects for only 15 minutes.
The combination of crack and heroine is called "crack" in the
East, and "speedball" in the West, producing euphoria as crack, faster, and less
depression. Smoked.
Lost appetite.
Amphetamine
(speed, crank, ice, bennies, copilots, dex, beans):
Speed or crank injected, produces a 4-8 hour euphoria, followed with 24
hours of depression.
Oral in tablets, or snorted, results in less intense effects.
Ice, smoked, with high effects.
All produced in laboratories in Japan, USA, Hong Kong, Korea...
Ecstasy,
or MDMA (3-4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine)
(Adam, Bean, E, Ecstasy, M, Roll, X, XTC)
It is a synthetic drug with amphetamine-like
and hallucinogenic properties.
Ecstasy come in a tablet form that is often
branded, e.g. Playboy bunnies, Nike swoosh, CK.
Short-term effects include psychological
difficulties, including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, severe
anxiety, and paranoia.
See Ecstasy and Party Drug
Information Center
Opium
(heroine, morphine, demerol, methadone, speedball, codeine, lomotil,
percodan):
Used for pain, cough, diarrhea...
Injected gives a glow, a warmth, for 1-6 hours.
Methadone, 12-24 hours.
Heroine plus cocaine, smoked, is called "speedball"; gives
euphoria like cocaine, but less depression afterwards.
Pupils small.
Marijuana:
From Cannabis: Marihuana, hashish, (pot, herb, grass, weed, joint,
mota, tea, Mary Jane, reefer, ganga, kif, honey).
Smoked, in a few seconds gives a sense of relaxation and ease,
inhibition, lack of attention, disorientation, for 2-3 hours. The smoke smells like burned
leaves.
Increases appetite.
PCP, Phencyclidine:
(angel dust, killer weed, K, parsley, crystal, zombie, doa, green,
sherms, supercools):
It is very dangerous, because it can be taken in as marijuana or a
simple cigarette, but it can cause a mental illness for life with just the first smoke.
Used smoked... oral, eye drops... gives aggressiveness, agitation,
trips...
LSD (lysergic acid), Peyote
(mescaline):
(acid, love, drug, cactus, magic, mushrooms, barrels, sugar cubes):
They are the most dangerous, producing "trips", very intense hallucinations,
durable even for days, and may produce mental illness for life. Oral.
Barbiturates: Librium, valium,
dalmane, nembutal, methaqualone...
(blues, downers, jackets, ludes, booze, reds, 714s, Qs, quaalude).
They are sedatives, depressants. Duration of 1 to 16 hours. Oral or
injected
Inhalants: Amyl nitrate, nitrous
oxide, correction fluid, ether, glue, gasoline, chloroform:
(aerosols, rubber cement, liquid paper, cooking spray, whipped cream
can laughing gas, spray paints, locker room, rush, brush cleaner):
Confusion, disoriented... even death...
Alcohol:
You know it!... see Alcohol... it may lead to
Korsakoff Psychosis for life, which numbers 50% of those hospitalized in mental
institutions in the USA.
Nicotine:
See Smoking.
Drugs Actions Facts of Drugs Effects of Drugs
Legalization: Solution of the Drugs Problem
Drug Dealers out of Business... No more "pushers" in streets and schools... End of Drugs Crime
With the Legalization of Drugs, the big billion dollar business of drugs would stop immediately... the Drug Dealers are the most violently opposed to Legalization of Drugs.
As a consequence, there would not be dealers "pushing" drugs in our streets and schools, and the number of new addicts due to this big business would disappear.
End of Drug Crime:
Most of the crime due to drugs would stop, because most of the drug related crime, contrary to alcohol, occurs when the addict is in need of money to buy the drug, not when he has taken it.
If Drugs are legalized, the addict would not have to pay huge amounts of money for his drug, up to $200 for a $4 product!, and therefore, he would not have to commit so many crimes to obtain the money.
If an alcoholic or a smoker would have to pay $200 for a $4 bottle or a $4 pack, they would become criminals, like the addicts, in order to obtain the money... In my Medical Office I have seen addicts spending $600 daily for drugs that cost me $10!.
The crimes of the drugs lords competing for territory would also be immediately abolished, because there would be no more drugs lords!... and no more crimes of not paying any taxes on billions of dollars.
Present addicts would have a bonanza, because they could get their drug at normal prices, and probably they would use even more at the beginning. But their crimes would be like nothing compared with the real crimes they actually commit when they urgently need the drug and do not have the huge amounts of money they need to get it.
The behavior of the drug-addict is usually different from that of the alcoholic: The alcoholic hits his wife, the addict lets his wife hit him.
By now, there is no doubt that most "drug-related murders" are the result of drug prohibition. The same kind of violence that came with the Eighteenth's Amendment ban of alcohol in 1920: The last year of Prohibition the number of homicides rose to 12,124, and declined to 8,048 after the repeal of Prohibition, in 1941; and the number of assaults came down from 7,863 to 4,525.
Repeal of Prohibition was not a capitulation to Al Capone and his ilk, but a means of putting the bootleggers out of business and eliminating most of the crime and costs associated with the Prohibition Laws.
Education and Programs against Drug-Addiction… lots of money!
The Government is spending actually 10 billion dollars a year in the Drugs War. Besides, the big Business of Drugs do not pay any taxes… the $10 billion, plus the tax revenues of selling the drugs is a lot of money that can be used to promote education in large scale, and many programs against drugs use and abuse.
The Actual Addicts: People with a sickness:
The addicts would not be considered criminals anymore, but people with a sickness, like alcoholics, and they would have the chance to be treated as such by programs sponsored by the government, similar to those private, actually in existence. Those programs would cost the government a fraction of what it is actually spending to fight drugs.
The Pharmacists dispensing the drugs would accompany the product with an "instruction label" explaining honestly the effects of the drug and its real dangers, because, in the heat of the fight, some effects of the drugs have been either overlooked or exaggerated... and this would serve as an educational tool, and as an honest warning.
The Methadone Program in New York, and the Doctor's prescriptions of heroine in the Netherlands and Switzerland are good successful examples to fight the problem of drugs.
Drug use would not increase:
24% of Americans believe that Legalization of Drugs is the solution of the Drug Problem. But many Americans perceive drug legalization as an invitation to drug-infested anarchy. And it is not true: Some people would like to try drugs, once they are available, at reasonable prices, with pure reliable drugs... and it would lead to a new kind of addicts... however, I believe they would be less in number than those actually "pushed" into drugs in our schools and streets by the drug-dealers, whose only lucrative business is to push people into drugs and to exploit them... These drug-dealers are totally opposed to the legalization of drugs... and it is a good sign for making them legal...
Illicit drugs are different that alcohol and tobacco: They are not "social drugs", and the drugs and methods of consumption are most risky, and unlikely to prove appealing to many people, precisely because they are so obviously dangerous... most Americans would not inject cocaine or heroine in their veins even if given the chance to do so legally.
It is also important to know that now a days we can design an effective plan for legalization, after the experiences with tobacco and alcohol abuse... we have learned something from our past experiences!: Bans on advertising, campaigns of negative advertising, restriction on time and place of sale, prohibition of consumption in public places, education programs...
The solution of the Drug Problem:
Legalization of drugs is a leap onto the unknown… no government has ever tried it!… it may be a risky business, but I believe it is worth and prudent to try it. Often, legalization is repeatedly and vociferously dismissed, without an attempt to evaluate it openly and objectively. Drug addiction is currently a disaster, the Drugs War is a failure, the only beneficiaries of the actual drug laws are the traffickers...
The war on drugs in America is failing: Thirty million people in America use illegal drugs. Two and a half million of them are addicts, 67% of young Americans try an illicit drug before they finish high school, pushed by the dealers …and without trying legalization we may never find the best solution for our drug problem.
Solutions that may help to solve the
Problem of Drugs:
Taken from Legalize, based on 8223
responses in America, about what may be helpful and important in solving the drug problem:
- Legalizing Marijuana: 84%
- Improving the quality of public school education: 60%
- Spending more on drugs treatment programs: 50%
- Spending more on anti-drug education in schools: 43%
- Encouraging more community and police partnerships: 37%
- Legalizing all drugs: 24%
- Spending more on anti-drug programs to drug producing countries: 14%
- Hiring more police: 12%
- Building more prisons: 5%
There are four way to take care of it:
1- Doctors and
Hospitals.
2- Drugs Anonymous, and closed institutions.
3- Divine Healing.
4- Relatives and friends.
1- Doctors and Hospitals:
When there is a health problem, of course, doctors, psychiatrists, or hospitals, are the place to go... but in, general, most of doctors and hospitals do not take care of drug-addiction itself, until there is a serious health problem.
In my Medical Practice in New York, whenever I have a patient with drug-addiction I try to send him o her into one of the institutions mentioned next.
2- Drugs Anonymous, and in-residence institutions:
Whenever I can, I always send a patient or a friend with drug problems to:
Narcotics
Anonymous... Find the Nearest Place to You,
all over the world
Cocaine Anonymous.....Find the Nearest Place to You
Marijuana Anonymous...Find the Nearest Place to You
... Or to institutions that take care of the drug-addicts in-residence situations, living in the institution for several weeks, like St. Joseph's Rehabilitation Center at Saranac Lake, New York -- Mountainside, in Canaan, Connecticut, where they charge $75 per day -- Bannock Youth Foundation in Pocatello, Idaho -- Freedom Foundation-Active in India.-- Bronx Addiction Treatment Center and many more!... see Information in New York State (with excellent national and world information).
The Recovery Network QuitNet Rational Recovery National Families in Action Drug Free Resource Net
Real stories of recovery, treatment, and prevention. From real people. Share yours too.
3- Divine Faith Healing:
I have seen people quitting all kind of drugs after doing a Catholic retreat: Charismatic Retreat, Cursillos in Christianity ... and quitting it for good, for more than ten years.
The divine healing for drug-addicts follows the same guideline as
for general divine faith healing in the Bible:
See Divine
Healing for Nicotine in the Bible.
I have seen quitting drugs the spouse or children of people who made the Consecration to Virgin Mary
Amazing Genuine Testimonies of Quitting Heroin-Opium... Of Quitting Multiple Addictions
4- Relatives, Friends, Neighbors:
Parents, relatives, and friends may be crucial for a drug-addict to
joint one of the institutions above mentioned.
You are really needed by your spouse or child or friend!.
The drug-addict may be rebelling outwardly against the idea of joining any institution, but may actually be close to accepting your encouragement and support and making a decision to join them, or at least listen to what various recovered drug-addicts have to say about the programs.
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God bless you!.