DRUGS: LIFE AND DEATH

CHAPTERS

•1: ADDICTION

•2: NUEROSCIENCE

•3: SOCIOLOGY 1 AND 2

CHAPTERS

•4: CIGARETTES

•5: ALCOHOL

CHAPTERS

•6: COCAINE

•7: METH

•8: HEROIN

CHAPTERS

•9: MARIJUANA

•10: Pharmaceuticals

•11: THE OTHERS

ADDICTION

• TAKE 60 SECONDS TO WRITE DOWN WHY YOU DON’T WANT TO GET ADDICTED TO DRUGS THAT ARE ADDICTIVE

• WHAT PROBLEMS WOULD COME WITH BEING AN ADDICT?

• WHAT MIGHT YOU FORSEE AHEAD AS PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 1: ADDICTION

• TAKE 30 SECONDS TO WRITE IN YOUR OWN WORDS:

• WHY, IF YOU WANTED TO EXPERIMENT WITH DRUGS AND CONCIOUSNESS, WHY YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO EVEN TRY THE ADDICTIVE DRUGS-

• WHILE YOU SHOULDN’T EVEN USE NON- ADDICTIVE DRUGS- WHY WOULD BEING ABLE TO STOP BE SO MUCH BETTER?

CHAPTER 1: ADDICTION

• Take 30 seconds to write down:

• WHY WOULD IT BE BAD TO BE ADDICTED?

• WHAT DO YOU THINK ADDICTION IS?

• WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR LIFE TO SUPPORT YOUR ADDICTION?

• IF YOU GET ADDICTED, WHAT ELSE DO YOU SUPPOSE WOULD BE GOING ON IN YOUR BRAIN, AND IN YOUR LIFE, IN ADDITION TO YOUR ADDICTION?

• WRITE DOWN WHAT SOME PROBLEMS YOU HAVE. EVERYBODY HAS THINGS THAT THEY DEAL WITH.

• NOW IMAGINE HOW USING ADDICTIVE DRUGS WILL EXPONENTIALLY WORSEN THOSE PROBLEMS.

• IN ADDITION, THERE WILL BE SO MANY MORE PROBLEMS YOU ADD TO YOUR LIFE BY USING ADDICTIVE DRUGS, IT WILL BE TOO MUCH TO HANDLE.

• AND WHEN YOU WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER, AND CANT QUIT, YOUR PROBLEMS WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BE DEFEATED, BUT YOU MAY JUST START TO COMPOUND PROBLEM ON TOP OF PROBLEM.

•HERE IS A PARADOX/// SOMETHING OF INVERTED LOGIC FOR YOU:

If you allow your self the freedom to be free to use drugs, and do drugs because you live in a free country, and are not concerned about the CONSEQUENCES you may find that you actually lose your Freedom.

• WHAT TYPES OF FREEDOM DO YOU SEE YOUR SELF LOSING?

• YOU CAN BE FREE TO BE AS LIBERAL AS YOU WANT

• BUT JUST FYI, WHEN YOU ALLOW YOURSELF THE FREEDOM TO USE, YOU WILL END UP LOSING SO MUCH MORE. YOU MAY LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. YOU MAY LOSE YOUR JOB, FAMILY CONNECTIONS, MONEY, BRAINS CELLS AND INTELLECTUAL COMPUTING POWER, YOU MAY BE INCARCIRATED, AND YOU MAY LOSE CONTROL OVER YOU’RE MIND BODY AND SPIRIT.

• THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE CONTROL OVER YOUR OWN LIFE, AND OWN DECISIONS, AND NOT HAVE AN ADDICTIVE DRUG CONTROL EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR LIFE, OR EVEN JUST THE ABILITY TO EITHER USE IT, OR NOT USE IT-- IF YOU DON’T WANT TO USE IT. THAT IS A VERY WEAK AND POWERLESS FEELING with something even as simple as tabacco.

• Imagine not being able to control the ability to use an addicitivedrug- one that destroys your intelligence and ability to feel pleasure

• WHAT ARE THE ADDICTIVE DRUGS?

• The major addictive drugs

• #1 COKE

• #2 METH

• #3 HEROIN

• #4 TABACCO

• #5 Sometimes alcohol

•DON’T JUST “SAY NO” TO ADDICTIVE DRUGS– loudly SWEAR AS ANGRY AS YOU CAN-• : #$^%ING HELL #!@%ING NO!!!

COOKED!•COOKED

• TAKE 30 SECONDS TO THINK: DO YOU THINK DRUGS IN GENERAL COOK YOUR BRAIN?

• TAKE 30 SECONDS TO DESCRIBE THE BENEFITS OF BEING HYPER INTELLIEGENT, AND THE DOWNSIDES OF BEING STUPID.

• IF DRUGS MAKE YOU STUPID- IS IT ALL WORTH IT?

TOP TEN

• REAL QUICK, BEFORE YOU DO THE ADDICTIVE DRUGS: COKE, METH, HEROIN, WHAT ARE 10 THINGS YOU WOULD RATHER DO?

AMAZING BENEFITS

• WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON HOW COKE LEADS TO SEXUAL DISFUNCTION, METH LEADS TO JAIL AND DEATH, AND HEROIN LEADS TO DEATH, AND ALL INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF GETTING HIV?

ITS JUST RECREATIONAL RIGHT

• DESPITE WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK- WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU CANNOT STOP USING AN ADDICTIVE DRUG?TAKE 30 SECONDS TO IMAGINE USING THE ADDICTIVES RECREATIONAL, AND THEN NOT BEING ABLE TO STOP? HOW DOES THAT LINE GO?

• BY DEFINITION, THIS EFFECTIVELY WILL MEAN THE DRUG CONTROLS YOU, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND

• IF YOU NEVER start, you never even run the risk of losing power over your life

• TAKE 30 SECONDS TO THINK AND WRITE, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU USE RECREATIONALLY, AND LIKE IT SO MUCH, you EVENTUALLY lose power OVER YOUR “CHOICE” OF WHETHER YOU usE,

• WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR LIFE IN THIS SITUATION?

• NOW, TAKE 60 SECONDS TO VISUALIZE AND WRITE DOWN HOW YOUR LIFE IS GOING TO GO:

• VISUALIZE THAT YOU WILL BE A SUCCESS WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS

• VISUALIZE YOU WILL HAVE FRIENDS WITHOUT THEM BEING FRIENDS TO USE DRUGS WITH

• VISUALIZE YOU WILL HAVE PHENOMENOL LOVE- WITHOUT THE USE OF DRUGS

• VISUALIZE YOUR SELF AS A POWERFUL, HEALTHY, FINANCIALLY VIBRANT INDIVIDUAL WITH MENTAL HEALTH, NICE CLEAN CLOTHS, WELL PUT TOGETHER- WITHOUT EVER HAVING USED THE ADDICTIVE DRUGS

75 YEARS OF ABUSING DRUGS

• TAKE 30 SECONDS TO DESCRIBE WHY YOU WOULD WANT TO WAIT ON USING DRUGS IN GENERAL, BUT AGAIN,…..

• ESPECIALLY wait to use drugs that had a truly, physiological addictive potential that could make it very hard to stop on a dime.

OF COURSE IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BECOMING A TOTAL JUNKIE may CAUSE LOSS OF family

support, sober supporting friends, money, your job, and then it just continues into

your future– causing you to have a serious problem- on top of other problems you may have. AND IN ADDITION IT WILL LIKELY

NOW BECOME A BATTLE YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IN ADDITION TO EVERYTHING ELSE- for the rest

of your life

With this thinking, it would be better to acquire an addiction at 75, rather than 15

or 25

See the 5 minute video for a first hand account of addiction

A SAMPLE ONE OF THOSE LESSONS PLANS IS HERE AT https://bscs.org/drugabuse

For a list of lesson plans directly from the government, go to the website above

https://teens.drugabuse.gov/teachers/lessonplans

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJUXLqNHCaI

• CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE TO BE TAKEN TO A YOU TUBE VIDEO ON “THE WAR ON DRUGS”

• The idea is that the war needs to be won on the demand side, not the supply side

• The reality is that the us GOVERNMENT Is not going to stop the war on drugs. This means that if you are on the side of drugs, you are the enemy. This means you are the enemy of a powerful machine. SUNG SUE, WHO WROTE THE ART OF WAR- WOULD SAY: “DO NOT FIGHT AN ENEMY THAT YOU HAVE VERY LITTLE CHANCE IN BEATING”.

• IF YOU ARE ON THE SIDE OF DRUGS, YOU MAY NOT WANT WAR- BUT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU BE FACED WITH. THIS WAR IS A METAPHORICAL WAR AGAISNT THE GOVERNMENT. BUT WORSE YET –YOU WILL BE FIGHTING A WAR ON TWO SEPARATE FRONTS- SOMETHING SUNG SUE WOULD ALSO NOT RECOMMEND. THE SECOND FRONT? THE DRUGS THEM SELF. IF YOUR CHOICE IS ADDICTIVE DRUGS-YOU HAVE CHOSEN A VERY FORMIDABLE ADVERSARY. Again, SUNG SUE does NOT RECOMMEND THIS. Use 30 seconds to write down WHY WOULD YOU NOT WANT TO FIGHT A WAR WITH/OR/against yourself, and how you would battle a drug addiction,

• IN THIS ANALOGY, USING ADDICTIVE DRUGS EVERY NOW AND THEN– OR EVEN ONCE- IS ANALOGOUS TO GETTING INTO A FIGHT WITH THE DRUG. INDEED, IT MAY NOT LEAD TO A FIST FIGHT RIGHT AWAY- BUT THE FIGHT YOU HAVE WILL LEAVE A SCAR EMOTIONALLY. AND THEN WHAT ABOUT ANOTHER FIGHT? CONSIDER YOUR BODY TO BE LIKE A COUNTRY- AND YOU ARE THE LEADER OF THAT COUNTRY. IF DRUGS ARE A POISENSOUS ENEMEY, DO YOU REALLY WANT TO START A WAR ? MAYBE YOUR BRAIN CELLS COULD BE LIKE YOUR SOLDIERS. THE LARGER THE WAR YOU WAGE- THE MORE CASUALTIES YOU WILL HAVE.

• “WAR IS HELL”

• AS THE VIDEO ILLUSTRATES, THE PENALTIES FOR SIMPLY GETTING CAUGHT WITH DRUGS WILL MEAN JAIL TIME OR OTHER PUNISHMENTS LIKE CLASS WORK AND COMMUNITY SERVICE.

• SO a WAR THAT YOU START with the government could very easily destroy YOUR FREEDOM BY PUTTING YOU IN “TIME OUT.”

• Then when your out of jail, IF YOU received A FELONY JUST BECAUSE YOU WERE IN POSSESION OF DRUGS- YOU MAY HAVE TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY TO EVER FIND SOMEBODY WHO WILL HIRE YOU. As for selling drugs- the government could end your life as you know it for years-

JAIL TIME ANYONE?

• TAKE 30 SECONDS TO WRITE DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE PENALTIES OF DRUGS. WRITE ABOUT HOW YOU THINK GOING TO JAIL WOULD BE, AND HOW BAD IT COULD BE FOR YOUR FUTURE.

• WRITE DOWN YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE CURRENT WAR ON DRUGS AND THE PENALTIES. IS IT JUSTIFIED?

FRIENDS AND DRUG USE

• FOR A SHORT YOU VIDEO ON ADDICTION, HIT CNTL AND LEFT CLICK ONT THE FOLLOWING URL:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

• The main idea is: get the right social network, get the right friends.

• DON’T MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO DO DRUGS, AND YOUR CHANCES OF using or becoming an addict will be much lower

• TAKE 15 TO 30 SECONDS TO DESCRIBE WHAT THE BEST WAY TO AVOID THE USE OF HARD DRUGS WOULD BE:

• Explain why you would neglect to think of the excruciating lows when wanting to get high

THE CRISIS OF CONNECTION

THIS CAN BE VERY HARD, BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO USE DRUGS OFTEN HAVE PEOPLE TO DRUGS WITH. YOU CAN

BOND VERY WELL WITH OTHER PEOPLE IN THE CIRCLE WHO USE DRUGS. YOU CAN BOND WELL WITH OTHERS WHO SMOKE CIGARETTES. HOWEVER, THE BEST WAY NOT TO

BECOME A SMOKER OR DRUG ADDICT, IS TO HAVE FRIENDS WHO DO NOT SMOKE OR USE DRUGS

ONE WAY TO AVOID USING DRUGS IS TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH PEOPLE WHO DON’T USE DRUGS.

• Just realize that you have your whole life ahead of you, and that learning how to make friends is an art. Y0ur Friends have a way of getting you to do drugs, when if you had a different set of friends, you might not ever encounter drugs. One great way to stay away FROM DRUGS IS TO MAKE FRIENDS THAT DON’T do drugs. It may even be a social sacrifice initially, but it is one that will indeed benefit you in the long run.

• A QUESTION THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO THINK ABOUT FOR A LONG TIME IS: HOW DO YOU AVOID MAKING THE WRONG FRIENDS WHO CAN LEAD YOU INTO DRUGS?

• HOW DO YOU Walk or run away from a friend who you really want to be cool with?

INTERMISSION

• IN THE FOLLOWING YOU VIDEO, YOU WILL HERE MIKE SIGN A SONG WHERE HE SAYS HE TOOK A PILL TO SHOW IFIJI HE WAS COOL. IFIJI WAS PROPBABLY SMILING AND LAUGHING AS MIKES GREAT FRIEND AS HE GAVE MIKE THE PILL. AT LEAST IT DIDN’T KILL HIM RIGHT?

• LISTEN TO THE SONG AND THEN THINK ABOUT THE CRISIS OF WHAT “FRIENDS” CAN CONVINCE US TO DO.

• IF YOU WERE IN THE SITUATION WITH “IFIJI”, OR EVEN A CLOSE GOOD FRIEND, HOW DO YOU JAM OUT OF THE SITUATION? ALSO, IF YOU MAKE THE POOR DECISION TO TAKE THE DRUG OFFERED BY THIS “FRIEND” HOW DO YOU KNOW THE STUFF THAT YOU MIGHT BE TAKING IS CLEAN? WRITE AS YOU LISTEN

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IzpQKZX6-w

“HE DID IT TO SHOW IFIJI HE WAS COOL”

• Even if you really get along or like the people you meet who are big drug users- make the right decision to not be pressured into starting a war with your self and the government.

• You should realize that your life is yours– and in a few years- you will still have the same life– while those friends you have made- will probably move on to different things- and different people. Don’t let them steer you down the wrong path in life for a few years of fun

SWEAR ANGRY- ANGRIEST WINS

• HOW DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD ADDRESS AND NEGOTIATE YOUR WAY OUT OF PEER PRESSURE. THAT IS TO SAY, HOW WOULD YOU GET OUT OF A SITUATION WHERE SOMEONE WAS PROMOTING YOU TO DO METH COKE OR HEROIN?

• OR WHAT ABOUT MARIJUANA? WHAT ABOUT ECSTASY? WHAT ABOUT SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO CLUE ABOUT?

SWEAR ANGRY• An answer to being in a situation like would be just to walk away, run away, bust

out angry! And then call for a ride, keep walking or get on the bus and just go. But

be angry!!!

ADDICTION

HOW LIKELY IS RECREATIONAL FUN WITH STREET SMACK LIKELY TO

BECOME A HABIT.

HOW MIGHT ADDICTION DESTROY YOUR LIFE, AND WHAT KINDS OF THINGS WOULDYOU FORESEE IF

YOU HAPPEN TO BECOME AN ADDICT ?

TAKE 30 SECONDS TO THINK ABOUT THESE

THINGS

ADDICTION

• HOW DO YOU SUPPOSE THAT YOU WOULD BECOME ADDICTED?

• WHAT ARE THE STEPS?

• HOW DO YOU TEST THE PURITY OR DIRTYNESS OF YOUR JUNK? LIKE, HOW CAN YOU BE SMART ENOUGH TO TAKE THE “RIGHT DOSAGE” OF YOUR STREET JUNK?

• WHAT IS THE RIGHT DOSAGE?

DOSAGES MATTER

• ON THAT NOTE: DIALING IT BACK 100 FOLD, WHAT IS THE RIGHT DOSAGE FOR A PROPER MARIJUANA HIGH?---

• YOU PROBABLY DON’T HAVE THE ANSWER, ITS MORE OF A RHETORICAL, BUT HOW WOULD YOU ATTAIN THE ANSWER? UNFORTUANTELY--- IT CURRENTLY IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO GET IN THE PERFECT DOSAGE OF THC. IDEALLEY, THE IDEA IS TO BE AT THE PERFECT SPOT IN THE SPECTRUM WHERE YOU MIGHT ACTAULLY FEEL OKAY, BUT YOU CAN EASILY OVERBURN YOUR BRAINS ON KUSH OR KIND BUD. DON’T HOLD IT IN BASICALLY. IT IS IN PLENTIFUL SUPPLY.

• MARIJUANA CAN CAUSE PARANOIA IN CERTAIN PEOPLE, BUT LATER, MIGHT ACTUALLY HELP WITH ANXIETY-IN PEOPLE WITH PTSD

• CBD IS THE THERAPUTIC PART OF MARIJUANA FOR PAIN, IT ALONE DOESN’T CREATE THE ALTERED CONCIOUS, AND IS CLAIMED TO SCIENTIFICALLY HELP WITH BOTH PAIN AND INFLAMATION FOR OLD PEOPLE.

• MARIJUANA EDIBLES FROM A STORE ARE DANGEROUS ENOUGH TO KILL YOURSELF. YOU MAY NEED 3 MG TO GET HIGH, AND A BAG OF CANDY OR MARIJUANA BAR CAN HAVE 100 MG or more IN IT.

• KUSH IS FROM AFGHANISTAN, AND WILL DEFINITELY PUT YOU IN THE STONE AGE. (YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET A D+ WITH THAT)

• KIND BUD IS WHAT THEY USED TO CALL HIGH GRADE MARIJUANA.

• BOTH HAVE THC LEVELS FROM AROUND 20%- TO EVEN 30%

• SWAG MARIJUANA FROM MEXICO HAS THC LEVELS AT 2%- 3%.

• THINK ABOUT HOW BIG A 10 TIME MULTIPLE IS

ADDICTION

• AGAIN, What are the addictive drugs and what are considered to not be the addictive drugs?

GOVERNMENT ON WEED:

• The government says marijuana is indeed addictive, mostly because you can form a psychological habit fairly easily with it, but also because it does create dopamine transmission

ALCOHOLISM

• ALCOHOL IS HIT OR MISS WHETHER OR NOT YOU BECOME ADDICTED TO IT. THERE ARE A NUMBER

OF DIFFERENT FACTORS TO WHETHER OR NOT ONE GETS ADDICTED

• IT IS NOT LIKE AN ADDICTIVE DRUG.

• YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT IF YOU USE THE MAJOR ADDICTIVE DRUGS, YOU HAVE A PROFOUNDLY,

EXPONENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT CHANCE THAT YOU CAN’T JUST STOP, OR THAT YOU DO IT AGAIN,

AND AGAIN, AND AGAIN. AND IT HAPPENS EXPONENTIALLY FASTER, UNTIL YOU REALIZE YOU DO

IT TOO MUCH

• Perhaps when addressing ALCOHOL, AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR ADDICTION -ask yourself if your parents or grandparents ever had any alcohol addictions. This is not a perfect predictor, but alcoholism has said to be very genetically based.

ALCOHOLISM

• SO IF YOU HAVE A GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO ALCOHOLISM, TREAD VERY CAREFULLY WITH ALCOHOL.

• DON’T SWIM TOO FAR OUT, COME BACK TO THE BEACH FOR A REDBULL, OR FIVE HOUR ENERGY AT THE BEACH BAR.

• Probably would actually be a wiser choice to abuse marijuana if you have the right genes

ALCOHOLISMObviously, it is a

different story to have a beer every day, rather than do coke or meth or

heroin every day.

Pretty much anybody that does the addictive

drugs is going to have at LEAST SOME battle with stopping, EVEN IF THEY DO

IT ONLY ONCE IN A WHILE. Alcohol is a bit different

TAKE 60 SECONDS TO DEFINE

WHAT YOU THINK WOULD BE

A “PROBLEM” WITH

ALCOHOL. MAKE A LIST

IN ADDITION, TRY TO DEFINE

NOT JUST THE PROBLEM, BUT

WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE

SHORT, AND LONG TERM

THIS MAY BE A SIGN OF AN ALCOHLIC, BUT ALSO ------ perhaps SUCH ACCUSATIONS WOULD actually ANNOY ANYONE

EVEN IF YOU TELL THEM THEY ARE EXTREMELY OFFENSIVE TO YOU AND OTHERS WHEN DRUNK, THEY WILL ONLY BECOME MORE ENRAGED IF THE SUBJECT OF HAVING AN ISSUE WITH DRINKING COMES UP.

NOTE: THEY CAN NOT BE TOLD THEY HAVE A PROBLEM, BECAUSE THIS WILL ABSOLUTELY ENRAGE THEM

SADLY, THE HARDEST THING FOR AN ALCOHOLIC IS TO ADMIT THEY HAVE A PROBLEM. IT IS ALMOST QUITE A PHENOMENON.

ALCOHOLISM?

• Many people can have a few beers and then quit. For most people, even if they have 1 or 2 or even 6 or 12 beers a day, they have the ability to control themselves and basically stop when they need to.

ALCOHOLISM?

PERHAPS EVIDENCE COULD POSSIBLY BE

THIS:

you have a beer you need more and more, and then

after you have had enough to be drunk- you start hitting hard alcoholic

shots. After you have a few shots- you only need

more shots UNTIL YOU PASS OUT OR BLACK OUT. AND YOU

CANNOT STOP DRINKING AFTER YOU START.

ALCOHOL

• IT WILL BE NOTED AGAIN LATER, BUT IF YOU ADMIT YOUR LOSING YOUR STUFF, YOU CAN MAKE STEPS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

• IF EVERYTHING IS FINE- THEN EVERYTHING IS FINE. AND THIS WAY, THE CIRCUS WILL GET TO GO ON BIGGER AND BETTER NEXT TIME

ADDICTION

• WHAT WOULD YOU DEFINE “CONTROL” AS?

• Try and think of a time when you lost control over somebody or something. Maybe a disobedient dog, or a friend, or perhaps a time WHEN THERE WAS A PARENT YOU COULDN’T INFLUENCE FOR SOMETHING.

ADDICTION

• Think about how that weakness made you feel. Now apply that feeling to the inability to stop using a drug, despite wanting to control it. You realize that you are at the mercy of the other, and that you cannot get it to do what you want.

ADDICTION

• When would you say that you were out of control? What would be the warning signs for you?

ADDICITON

• TAKE A MINUTE TO LOOK UP ON YOUR PHONES: WHAT ARE THE 12 STEPS TO ADDICTION?

• WHERE DO YOU FIND GROUP SEESIONS GOING ON TO GO AND HANG WITH PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE ADDMITTING TO A SERIOUS ADDICTION?

HANGOVERS ROCK

• THE ODD THING IS THAT FOR MANY PEOPLE WHO DRINK, EVEN IF THEY MIX, THE HANG-OVERS DO NOT SEEM TO STOP THEM THE NEXT DAY. Some may mix the next day, and everyday after. they have a constant hangover, THEN MIX AGAIN, AND go into black out mode- everyday

• HOW DO YOU AVOID A HANGOVER: ANSWER: DO NOT MIX

• HOW TO GET A HANGOVER: MIX ALCOHOL TYPES. YOU WILL HOPEFULLY LEARN HERE IF SUPER QUICK, AND LATER IF SLOWER

ADDICTION STORIES

• WHO KNOWS ABOUT A BLACK OUT DRUNK?

• ANY GOOD STORIES TO ABOUT OTHERS WHO YOU SUSPECTED WERE SO HAMMERED SO AS TO BE BLACKED OUT? WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? DESCRIBE

• ANY GOOD STORIES OF A TIME YOU GUYS WERE NOT BLACKED OUT?

• TAKE 60 SECONDS TO THINK ABOUT WHAT A BLACK OUT DRUNK IS, AND WHY THAT MIGHT BE A BAD THING

THE “MOST HARMFUL”…. “DRUG”

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS6LoRYUdhw• A PART OF BEING WISE IS NOT TAKING OPINIONS AS FACTS OR HOW PEOPLE CAN

CREATE THEIR OWN SET OF DATA TO PROVE A POINT THEY WANT TO PROVE. DON’T LET PEOPLE MANIPULATE COMMON SENSE

• THINKING FOR YOURSELF, BEING ARGUMENTATIVE, AND DISAGREEING IS A PART OF BECOMING SMARTER

• THE WAR ON DRUGS IS A WAR THAT MOST ASURADLEY HAS TO CONTINUE, YOU CAN NOT JUST LAY DOWN AND LET YOURSELF BE DOMINATED

• Discuss: what WOULD HAPPEN IF THE USA JUST TOTALLY GAVE UP TRYING TO PREVENT DRUG supply, laws and penalties?

GENERALIZED- NOT JUST ALCOHOL:

• How much do you think a good drug AND ALCOHOL treatment center can cost?

ADDICTION HELP

• Answer: more than you or the state can reasonably afford, basically

• BUT IF YOU NEED HELP, THE STATE DOES OFFER FREE PROGRAMS

• YOU HAVE TO KEEP ASKING AROUND FOR THE RIGHT PROGRAMS

• ALSO, THINGS LIKE PROBATION, AND LOSING YOUR LICENSE TO GET TO YOUR PROBABTION OFFICER MEETINGS CAN HELP

H BOMBS, COKE AND METH

• Does it make sense that what goes up must come down?

• Scientists say that when you crash- YOU DON’T GO BACK TO NORMAL, YOU GO way under feeling normal- TO A STATE OF FEELING REALLY “LOW”

• WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU WILL GET EVEN LOWER THAN YOUR BASELINE AFTER USING, AND NOW SCIENTISTS THINK THAT MANY PEOPLE ACTAULLY GET STUCK IN THE LOWER MOOD BELOW THEIR NORMAL BASELINE

• ASK: WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO YOURSELF IN THE FIRST PLACE?

• Naturally, the thing an addict might feels is that they need to get high-just to get to feeling normal- or the normal that we take for granted

• Perhaps an addict cannot think of the low, they just have to deal with a physical dependence. IT IS A CONSTANT BATTLE OF GOING FROM ULTRA LOW, TO NEEDING TO GET HIGH, THEN GOING BACK TO BEING ULTRA LOW AND EVEN VERY SICK.

• THE THING IS, ADDICTION MIGHT BE LIKE BI-POLAR- YOU GET REALLY HIGH, AND THEN LOW, MESSED UP AND PARANOID.

• ABOUT THE ONLY THING THAT DOESN’T REALLY HAVE THIS HIGH AND LOW THING IS SEX. YOU CAN DO THAT, AND NOT GET REALLY LOW FROM IT, IF DONE SOBER. THE EMOTIONAL BATTLE MAY HAVE ITS HIGHS AND LOWS WITH THE OTHER HOWEVER, and that Can be the TouGhESt part.

BALANCE?

• WITH BI-POLAR- THEY SAY THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS TO ATTAIN “HOMEO-STASIS” WHICH IS NATURES WAY OF MAKING SURE THE ORGANISM IS IN BALANCE.

• FOR BI-POLAR PEOPLE, THIS IS NOT FUN. THEY NEED A LITTLE UP DOWN TO STAY ALIVE.

• WHAT CAN A NORMAL PERSON DO TO GET LITTLE HIGHS, AND LITTLE LOWS?

• NAME 10 THINGS

LOWS AND LOWER LOWS X 10

• TAKE 60 SECONDS TO THINK ABOUT HOW MESSED UP THE LOWS OF THE BIG 3: METH COKE AND HEROIN WOULD BE:

• JUST HOW BAD DO YOU THINK THE LOWS FEEL? WHAT IS GOING on in THAT BRAIN duringA LOW?

• WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO THINK ABOUT THE LOWS BEFORE GETTING HIGH?

• DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU COME DOWN, YOU COME DOWN TO NORMAL?

ADDICITION

• One idea is that addictive drugs create a lock and key mechanism in the brain. The drug creates the lock in the brain, and when the DRUG IS USED, IT ACTS AS A KEY THAT UNLOCKS “GREATNESS” AND GOOD feelings. One way to possibly combat this is to know that over time of not using, the brain will erase some of the lock and keys. Over time, it may be possible to have no more locks in the brain that are demanding to be released, But you have to now create a battle everyday to not use, and create more locks in the brain. In time with not using, the locks will diminish. Unless you just keep using and creating more locks.

•

TIME HEALS ALL

• OVER TIME, IF YOU STOP USING ADDICTIVE DRUGS, THE CRAVINGS WILL GET WEAKER AND WEAKER, UNTIL YOU VIRTUALLY DON’T HAVE CRAVINGS ANYMORE.

ALWAYS AN ADDICT AFTER BEING ONE

• STAYING SOBER like a WAR that will continue. It may get easier however. But it can be tough to remember how bad the war of using is. AFTER USING ADDICTIVE DRUGS- IT IS LIKE THE WAR WILL ALWAYS BE JUST AROUND THE CORNER. UNDERSTANDING THAT ADDICTS DON’T WANT TO BE ADDICTS IS A CRITICAL POINT. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS BY HOW BAD OLDER PEOPLE SAY RELAPSING CAN BE TO THEM.

• They need to remember just one drag, one line, one whatever- can make a peaceful life-- go to full on global war inside them

TO KNOW THEYSELF

• The toughest thing is not relapsing

• Once addicted, your physiologically hooked forever

• This can be tough to admit, and know as a part of yourself.

• IT CAN EVEN TAKE TIME TO “TRULY” LEARN

ONE TASTE

• Understand that just one taste, one puff, one line will put you on track to be totally addicted again. You have to lock it up so tough- it may tack multiple efforts, but you get tougher with each time you quit.

• The lights in your brain have to be totally stuck on red forever. No green lights down the road, no going through reds

RECREATIONAL?

• After some time, it no longer becomes a recreational choice- once you get hooked- it can be almost impossible to quit. Something to REMEMBER WHEN YOUR JUST “MESSING AROUND”

ADDICTION

• NON ADDICTIVE DRUGS examples:

• MARIJUANA- (us government says is schedule 1 addictive because it forms a habit easily)

• EXTACY

• MUSHROOMS/LSD/ MESCALINE

INTELLECTUAL AWARENESS/MATURITY

•Most Elementary schoolers should have some idea of the levels of devastation that different drugs have, and how they rank in terms of the potential devastation each one may pose to a persons life when compared to each other.

DO “NON-ADDICTIVE” THINGS

• The final word on addiction might be: do drugs that are not : addictive-

• if you have to do drugs

EVERYONE HAS PROBLEMS…

• If you are having a crisis with friends, are having problems with family, or just a regular crisis of your own, before you start using any of these things- go to your schools guidance counselor for free help and a good talk.

FAITH

• DESPITE WHERE YOU MAY STAND WITH FAITH, MANY PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEATEN AN ADDICTION SAY THAT THE ONLY WAY TO GET OVER THE ADDICTION AND FINALLY BEAT IT IS TO GIVE IT TO A HIGHER SPIRIT FORCE

• PERHAPS BELEIVING THAT YOU CAN DO IT, AND ACTUALLY HAVING ENOUGH DOPE INSIDE YOUR BRAIN CELLS TO ACTUALLY FINALLY WANT TO BEAT IT IS PART OF THAT

• ALSO, BEING BROKEN, TO THE POINT THAT YOU WANT TO BE “GOOD” IS A part of it.

GETTING DUMBER MAKES QUITTING HARDER

• YOU NEED DOPAMINE TRANSMISSION TO QUIT, AND KICK THE ADDICTION , BUT THE MORE YOU USE THE THREE MAIN ADDICTIVE DRUGS, COKE METH AND HEROIN, (IN ADDITION TO CIGARETTES) THE MORE THE DRUG ACTUALLY DESTROYS THIS TRANSMISSION

TRANSMISSION

• HAVING DOPE INSIDE THE BRAIN CELLS IS ESSENTIAL FOR MOTIVATION. DOPAMINE IS THE REWARD CHEMICAL WHEN IT IS PUSHED OUT OF THE BRAIN CELLS.

• MANY DRUGS- SPECIFICALLY ADDICTIVE DRUGS FORCE THE BRAIN CELLS TO BLOW OUT DOPAMINE. THIS IS WHAT MAKES USING THE DRUG FEEL GREAT. THE LOW PERIOD AFTER HOWEVER WILL FEEL DISASTEROUS, BECAUSE THERE IS NO MORE DOPAMINE TO BLOW OUT, ITS ALL USED UP. SO NOW, EVERY THING WILL FEEL TERRIBLE.

• IN THE LONG RUN, USING THESE DRUGS ACTUALLY DESTORYS THE DOPAMINE RECEPTORS. SO EVEN IF YOU HAVE DOPAMINE, THE COMMUNICATION AMONG OTHER BRAIN CELLS WILL NOT REGISTER, BECAUSE THE RECEPTORS ARE DESTROYED.

A FREE CHOICE AMERICA

• STAY PRO CHOICE, DON’T DO ADDICTIVE DRUGS. DO non addictive drugs if you have to–

• THIS WAY, YOU HAVE choices WHEN YOU WANT TO STOP, and can easily do so. Plus, doing non- addictive drugs is a safer habit of RECREATION, RATHER THAN “BEING RECREATIONAL” WITH STUFF THAT YOU can easily be swept away with, and once you have lost control-THAT’S IT

• maybe even postpone using non-ADDICTIVE DRUGS UNTIL YOU’RE AN ADULT, AND YOUR BRAIN HAS FULLY FORMED

WHO IS IN COMMAND?

• YOU WANT TO HAVE THE ABLITY TO THINK AND USE YOUR BRAIN. IF ALL YOUR BRAIN CAN THINK OF IS HAVING TO GET HIGH- YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON STUFF. YOU WANT TO BE THE ONE IN COMMAND OF YOURSELF, NOT LOSE COMMAND OF YOUR SELF TO A STUPID DRUG.

• STAY IN COMMAND BY NEVER even GIVING AN ADDICTIVE DRUG a single CHANCE TO ONE DAY STAGE A “ COUP D'éTAT ” ON YOUR BODY, BRAIN, AND entire life in general

L - TRY O SIN EH?

• Last word: a major thing you can do is buy 5 hour energies for BATTLE….IT HAS L-tyrosine in it.

• L-tyrosine is amino acid converts to dopamine which is necessary to aid you in your motivations and rewards for success,