Question by Haylie B: Beat a drug addiction?
I am a 24 year old female and I go out every weekend to trance events and also in my local town.

When I go out I take a lot of drugs. Cocaine mostly, pills, MDMA, ketamine, speed, methadrone etc.

I am not ‘addicted’ to any particular drugs, in the week I can take it or leave it but at the weekend I feel like I NEED to take something in order to have a good time. Especially at trance events where I know I’ll be dancing for 7-8hours and all my friends will be on pills.

I want to stop doing drugs full stop but don’t want to go to my GP and ‘talking to Frank’ just isn’t going to cut it. I know they will just tell me the harm I’m causing myself (which will not work).

Has anyone overcome this by themselves?

Best answer:

Answer by Manpreet Singh
You can write your experience at experience project and share your problem with similar people. Experience project has develop a good platform to hear and share experience from people who have been through similar issues. You could also join a local drug addicts annonymous group and find out to resolve your problem, i believe you could find similar local addicts annonymous group for your location. I have the one for the states here

http://www.daausa.org/whenwhere.html

Experience project
http://www.experienceproject.com

Answer by Etcha Sketch
I have. in recovery 3yrs after 21yrs active on and off usage. It is not an overnight thing. It takes time, energy, willingness, dedication, study and education, and lots of footwork.

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Question by : Need Ur Help! Any Law Students? On Marijuana Legalization!?
we’re gonna debate on the legalization of marijuana. its more like an argument, not a trial. 10 Min’s each. i know you guys love it! we are the proponent team. now i need more examples that have a high authority, any recent case about marijuana? do you have any or a draft you’ve worked before? i checked on findlaw.com found little about it…thank u folks. contact me at [email protected]
@Ergre United States of America! thank you

Best answer:

Answer by Ergre
dude – marijuana legislation of what country?

Answer by ☯420★
The following source states how the prohibition of drugs has failed, thus recommending the legalisation of illicit substances. Specifically, it mentions the legalisation of cannabis.
– http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/Report

This report was conducted by the “Family Council of Drug Awareness” Europe. It states that the prohibition of cannabis is unfounded and recommends that it should be reversed. They also go into details about the Cannabis Biomass Energy Equation — it shows how marijuana is the best bio fuel.
– Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law – The Report of the FCDA Europe:

The following is a patent given by the US government. The US government often states that marijuana has no medicinal benefits, yet it has given a patent stating that cannabinoids (found in THC in marijuana) has great medicinal benefits.
– U.S. Patent # 6630507: “Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants”

I’d recommend you do the following areas for your presentation:
– How prohibition does not work: Use the first source and examples of how the US government spends billions of dollars each year on the “War on Drugs”. In spite of this, marijuana use is on the increase and its availability is also increasing. The lack of government regulation, such as that seen with alcohol and cigarettes, means it is easier for younger people to get access to marijuana compared to alcohol and cigarettes. (CASA report: http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-teens-to-buy-marijuana-than-beer/)
– How marijuana is medically less harmful and addictive than other legal drugs: Alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana; show how many people die each year from alcohol, compared to the number who have overdosed from marijuana — ZERO people have died from marijuana overdoses.

To summarise, think about the following:
– negative effects on society due to prohibition causing more gang crime, etc.
– negative effects on economy due to billions being wasted trying to enforce the prohibition.
– medical facts that marijuana is less dangerous than other legal drugs, and how cannabinoids have been shown to be medically beneficial.

You’ll nail the debate because there are no valid arguments from the opposition who support its criminalisation.

P.S. If they mention Dr Heath’s study in 1974 which linked cannabis to brain damage, remind them that it was because the monkeys were starved of oxygen during the experiment, as he pumped 50 joints worth of cannabis into the monkey without including oxygen — it was oxygen starvation which caused the brain damage, not marijuana!

Dr Heath’s study is the main foundation of all the propaganda and misinformation out there. Modern medical science has debunked his findings.

Also, they’ll probably mention it causes mental illnesses. Again, this is wrong. Only those who have mental illnesses in their genes are susceptible to it being highlighted by marijuana. Cannabis DOES NOT cause mental illnesses.

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Question by eyedocwood: Internet Addiction?
Wondering if anyone has any experience treating internet addiction and if so what methods were used. Are SSRI’s often used for this type of behavior?

Best answer:

Answer by Pam Ragland
Dear “Eyedocwood”,
Internet addiction is one of the fastest growing addictions today, because it is so available. I have experience with addictions of all kinds. I include Internet Addiction in my book “The 7 Whys of Addiction: The Hidden Secrets that Cause Addiction and The 3 Keys to Finally Be Free of Them”, because it is so prevalent today.

It helps to understand how addictions happen to understand this addiction & how to treat it. First, all addictions are an avoidance mechanism.

They can start out harmless enough. What happens with any addiction, internet included, is it starts as a simple habit. It may be the habit of surfing the internet or playing games at night for example. Then, when it is truly an addiction, it progresses & has a greater impact on your life. I created a scale to explain this (in my book) I call “ACS” or the “Addiction Continuum Scale” because every addiction is a progression. It starts out as a simple habit and progressess over time.

How quickly it progresses into something more harmful to you depends on why you have the addiction in the first place and how aware you are of the process.

SSRI’s shift the neuro transmitters in your brain. These are your brain’s reward centers… So, from that perspective IF you are feeling pain you then avoid with your addiction, you may feel better.

However, these do nothing to determine the reason you are avoiding in the first place. They are a patch, and will never cure an addiction. This is like treating your cough with cough medicine when you have lung cancer. It treats the symptom not the cause. In fact, sometimes they are like putting a lid on a volcano which later explodes. I know those who love prescription drugs as a treatment won’t agree with me, but this is what I have observed.

I recommend getting rid of the triggers, and changing your habits. I talk about this more in a free report, and my book. Both are available in the source list if you would like more information.

Make no mistake, any addiction gone untreated will get worse. It is simply a matter of how fast.

Warmly,
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