Quote:The vast majority of the people I deal with are from abusive and /or lower socio economic back grounds and have big personal issues, many start off self medicating without realising they are doing so. For someone who comes from an abusive background and has little prospects in life any altered reality is where they want to be. .
Makes you wonder. If drugs weren't available and basically promoted as they have been in the past approx. 40 years, many of the people like those you've described might have emerged stronger in character and with a half-decent life
There were kids/people such as you've described all the way through. Some killed themselves from depression, others turned to alcohol or Bex and Vincent's APCs and others formed the flotsam and jetsam of society, never able to pull themselves out of it. But nothing as bad as the situation (drugs) today
And it's not a matter of lower intelligence as the determining factor, because a woman we know who mixes socially via her spouse with a lot of what we term 'professionals' claims the parties she attends centre around drugs with members of the legal industry snorting/using stuff openly, etc. Daresay doctors, politicians etc. are no different. Drugs seem to be regarded in the same way as cocktails in earlier eras -- recreational, fun, harmless, just a bit of relaxation and indulgence by those who cannot claim a deprived childhood environment
CIA, FBI and other alphabet agencies. Agents posing as bikies and controlling supply and distribution. Seems an agenda to me. It's as bad as the black death in its damage
I was a child such as those you've described. Was on my own from an early age. But stayed clear of alcohol, when that was as close to reality-altering substances as was available then. Kept clear of drugs, apart from an experimental episode (singular) with marijuana (told it was 'best buds' and only did it to shut up a nagging sister who accused me of 'knocking stuff you know nothing about'). It was a fascinating experience, actually. I expected to get sleepy, hungry and laugh a lot. Instead, I entered an altered state, astral travelled, turned into what seemed to be an Aztec youth, etc.
But I have a strong aversion to being controlled, or maybe it's to being out of control of myself. Reason alcohol held no joys for me. Same with drugs. So I battled extreme depression for about ten years, made a couple of stupid suicide attempts, ended up with agoraphobia (which had no name back then) and eventually emerged pretty much unscathed - which is probably true for many of my generation. We evaded, escaped, learned, survived, despite life being much harder in many ways then. Maybe it was because we'd had drummed into us from an early age the old adage,
'Just because Jimmy jumps off a bridge, does it mean you will, too ? '. Do parents and teachers still say that, I wonder ? - re: the alleged 'peer pressure' claimed as responsible for much initial drug taking
I feel sorry for anyone enslaved by a filthy substance that turns from joy to agony very quickly. No answers, of course, except to pray someone comes up with an antidote asap -- which would put the alphabet agencies and agents, drug-labs, pushers, etc. out of business and save future generations
There has to exist an antidote - something cheap and quick that people can take as easily as cough syrup. Has to be ..