Drugs and Alchohol

[shufleye]

post yer suggestions on drugs and alcohol here!

[firegirl05]

i think that drugs r stupid and alcohol is too... i dunno, lol thats my opinion!! also even tho this isnt part of the forum thingy, i hate smoking...its my biggest thing and ive gone over 2 ppl who smoke and i told them they were commiting suicide and to stop...i doubt they listen 2 me, but it makes me feel like im doing something 2 help...

[forget]

actually it pisses them off more when you say it but thanks for being so concerned

[firegirl05]

yeah prob, but it just makes me feel like im makin a differance, even in my own head

[rainydays2]

i feel like teenagers, including myself, don't really believe all of the bad stuff that supposedly happens if u use drugs or drink. like all things, we want to try it ourselves to see what really happens. unfortunately, most teenagers (once again i include myself) do not learn from other, less dangerous things that they have tested on their own and found that the adults had been correct all along.

second, once our friends have tried it, and we see them still alive, we feel secure with drug usage and drinking and try it ourselves. the only solution i can think of is giving teenagers more awareness of what really happens. one way to do this would be to let us interact with recovered drunks or druggies. this way, we would find out what it really does to people, and hopefully believe it, obliterating our desire to try it ourselves. words are just words and can be made up. actual people to look at and speak to about their experiances are much more convincing than a list of the effects of drug usage and drinking.

just a thought.

[Dontknow]

Well i dont know about other teens, but I have never had any desire to drink, smoke, do drugs, etc. I dont see what is so great about it. I have friends who have done these things, and just cuz they havent died does not make it appealing at all. I dk, maybe im just weird like that...

[firegirl05]

dontknow, im w/ u...i never had a thought in my head like maybe its a good idea...i have friends that do tho, and its rly scary

[forget]

umm talking and seeing recovered drunks and druggies just gives kids the whole notion of "yea but it could never happen to me"
as teenagers we are invincible nothing bad happens to us. maybe your cousins boyfriends sister but not ourselves.
so nothing can stop partying and having fun unless its your own personal choice

[rainydays2]

forget, i don't understand how seeing recovered drunks and druggies would make us think that it cannot happen to us. on the contrary, i think that seeing actual people that it has happened to will make us realise that bad stuff can happen to anybody, including us. the only solution to this problem that i can see is raising awareness, and the best way to do that is by letting us interact with real people.

[forget]

we are apathetic people as a whole. maybe it'll scare you off but for me it would never. i've seen close friends arrested, had problems with drugs like cocaine. i know kids who've gotten pregnancy scares and all this ****. it doesn't really scare me off. might make me a little bit more careful with my decisions towards things. but part of me still believes its not gonna happen to ME because IM not that stupid. its a dumb attitude but we think we are invincible

[rainydays2]

maybe u think that this might never happen to you bc you're not that stupid, but that is a totally different issue. i'm talking about raising awareness, and how this would be the best way to raise awareness. wut you're saying conflicts with all ways of raising awareness. no matter how the awareness is being raised, you will always say, well i'm too good for that to happen to me, so i don't have to listen. i believe that if u see with your own eyes what happens to people from using drugs and drinking (ie. talk to the actual ppl), it will cause u to think twice when ur about to do something bad.

[SNs]

or it can work the other way. some ppl only here the part about how the person started cus it felt sooooo good.

[forget]

awareness does nothing. everyone is aware that eating fast food is bad for you and they watch movies like supersize me but do they give a crap no mcdonalds is still serving billions.
people just dont really care about other peoples bad experiences. we just want to have fun and it doesnt matter if someone else messed up badly while having fun.

[rainydays2]

true. hopefully whoever it is that they're talking to will stress the bad effects of it more than the reason they started.

[rollingstone]

forget- awareness does do things. u can't say it doesn't just because you're a cynic. i garauntee you if you watch a tape about anarexic people- where it shows you live videos of them and pictures and stuff- i garauntee you, it'll make you so sick to your stomach and scare you so out of your mind that you'll never want to be anarexic in your life. well maybe not to you since you couldn't care less about anything, but to the majority of the human race, it would change their perspective on things. and earlier in this thread- you said how the way you and people like you think is a "dumb attitude"- seriously man, i couldn't agree with you more.

[rainydays2]

forget, why are there so many people that have not tried drugs or drink excessively? if it's so much fun, you'd think that they would be in on it too. but here's the catch-they're not. and you know y? they are aware of the bad effects. this is where awareness comes in handy.

[SNs]

ye but ppl dont care about the bad effects. they only care about the good efects

[forget]

um im sorry. i just thought that those people who don't do things don't do it because they hear its bad and are afraid of doing these bad things. but i guess they really just dont want to become a herion addict because thats what happens when you drink a little

[rainydays2]

i somehow find that hard to believe. if they really know hte bad effects, i dont see how they wouldnt care about them.

[rainydays2]

forget, i wish i could respond, but i have no idea wut u just said.

[drumfrk]

Ive tried a couple of stuff in my day, and thank g-d im not addicted. Awareness definitely helps to prevent pple from experimenting, but thats exactlly it! Teenagers will experiment and explore, bec arnt we always pushing the limits and seing how far we can go? I think that certain things are so hypd up that they become taboo. for example-school tells you not to go on the roof ,therefore u go there with a bunch of friends. normally u wouldnt care to go on the roof and u wouldnt even think about it,but since its "forbidden" it becomes a thrill of sorts. What we can only hope for is that once u experiment(u go on the roof) u see both the good(the awesome view) and the bad(the 300 foot drop to the ground) and u realize why the rules were made. The decision though must come from an understanding of the pros and cons. Now im not saying to experiment with drugs and alcohol, rather im trying to explain why i think teenagers, knowing what may happen, try stuff out anyway.

[Dontknow]

I dont do any of these things. partly because of its bad effect, partly cuz i have no interest. i have a friend who smokes weed rarely, and it doesnt have any bad effect on her as far as i know, however i do know that smoking weed excessiviely isnt that great of an idea. not that we are talking about weed. if i really wanted to i could do it, like my friend does without much of a bad effect, but why should i? i just have no interest.

[drumfrk]

So wats wrong with that?

[SNs]

why wouldnt u have an interest.
no one has such a good life that they dont want an escape

[Dontknow]

whats wrong with what?
Sns, are you saying its not normal that I have no interest? I dont need drugs to "escape." Your right, my life is not perfect, however, i know that drugs (for me anyways, i wont tell you what to do) are not going to help me solve my problems, just like netiher will drinking. i could get high, but once the high wares off, my problems will still be there, and they might even be worse.

[SNs]

no not that ur not normal. more like u talk like its so simplelike ya i dont wnna do drugs and i never wanted too...
how many other people can say that?

[Confuzedinlimbo]

I happen to want to try drugs jus for the hell of it but honestly, it doesnt look too appealing (like food can look yummy, drugs dont-understand the analogy).

Also, true nobody's life is perfect and everyone wants an escape sometime (if not now than later) but for a lot of people drugs holds no appeal. There are other ways of coping.
maybe im misunderstanding and correct me if im wrong but you connect the two so easily like it's a cause and effect...."everyone who is unhappy must want to try drugs."

[forget]

umm not everybody does drugs or drinks to escape. maybe its just a fun activity...

[darkfairyeyes]

Well I dont know. I used to do stuff but now I think it's pointless. I don't look down on people that do it. I do, however, try to get there reasoning for doing it. If it's just having fun then I wont really try to talk them out of it but if it IS to escape I really do try to talk to them about it. One is more dangerous and addicting than the other. But that's the same with drinking and smoking cigs too.