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rocky0036
April 16th, 2009, 01:42 PM
People have used drugs for as long as they have tried to ease pain and avoid problems. Since the early 1960s, however, drugs have been in very widespread use. Before that time they were rare. A worldwide spread of drugs occurred during that decade, and a large percentage of people became drug-takers.
By drugs (to mention a few) are meant tranquilizers, opium, cocaine, marijuana, peyote, amphetamines and the psychiatrist’s gifts to man, LSD and angel dust, which are the worst. Any medical drugs are included. Drugs are drugs. There are thousands of trade names and slang terms for these drugs. Alcohol is also classified as a drug.
Drugs are supposed to do wonderful things but all they really do is ruin the person.
Drug problems do not end when a person stops taking drugs. The accumulated effects of drug-taking can leave one severely impaired, both physically and mentally. Even someone off drugs for years still has “blank periods.” Drugs can injure a person’s ability to concentrate, to work, to learn – in short, they can shatter a life.
Yet though the dangers and liabilities of drugs are blatantly obvious and increasingly well documented, people continue to take them.
Why?
When a person is depressed or in pain, and where he finds no physical relief from treatment, he will eventually discover for himself that drugs remove his symptoms.
This is also true for pains which are “psychosomatic.” The term “psychosomatic” means the mind making the body ill or illnesses caused through the mind. “Psycho” refers to “mind” and “soma” refers to “body.”
In almost all cases of psychosomatic pain, illness or discomfort the person has sought some cure for the upset.
When he at last finds that only drugs give him relief, he will surrender to them and become dependent upon them, often to the point of addiction.
Years before, had there been any other way out, most people would have taken it. But when they are told there is no cure, that their pains are “imaginary,” life tends to become insupportable. They then can become chronic drug-takers and are in danger of addiction.
The time required to make an addict varies, of course. The complaint itself may only be “sadness” or “weariness.” The ability to face life, in any case, is reduced.
Any substance that brings relief or makes life less a burden physically or mentally will then be welcome.
In an unsettled and insecure environment, psychosomatic illness is very widespread.
So before any government strikes too heavily at spreading drug use, it should recognize that it is a symptom of failed psychotherapy. The social scientist, the psychologist and psychiatrist and health ministers have failed to handle spreading psychosomatic illness.
It is too easy to blame the drug problem on “social unrest” or the “pace of modern society.”
The hard, solid fact is that until now there has been no effective psychotherapy in broad practice. The result is a drug-dependent population.
Drug users have been found to have begun taking drugs because of physical suffering or hopelessness.
The user, driven by pain and environmental hopelessness, continues to take drugs. Though he doesn’t want to be an addict, he doesn’t feel that there is any other way out.
However, with proper treatment, drug dependency can be fully handled.
As soon as he can feel healthier and more competent mentally and physically without drugs than he does on drugs, a person ceases to require drugs.
Drug addiction has been shrugged off by psychiatry as “unimportant” and the social problem of drug-taking has received no attention from psychiatrists – rather the contrary, since they themselves introduced and popularized LSD. And many of them are pushers.
Government agencies have failed markedly to halt the increase in drug-taking and there has been no real or widespread cure.
The liability of the drug user, even after he has ceased to use drugs, is that he “goes blank” at unexpected times, has periods of irresponsibility and tends to sicken easily.
Scientology technology has been able to eradicate the major damage in persons who have been on drugs as well as make further addiction unnecessary and unwanted.
Scientology has no interest in the political or social aspects of the various types of drugs or even drug-taking as such. Drugs, however, pose a growing threat to mental and spiritual advancement – which is the true mission of Scientology.
Thus, Scientology contains an exact technology which not only gets a person painlessly off drugs but handles their physical, mental and spiritual effects and locates and fully resolves the reason underlying a person’s drug-taking. Nothing else can do this with certainty.

satyenderdeswal
April 16th, 2009, 03:47 PM
Really nice information sir......:)
http://www.scientologyhandbook.org/SH7_1.HTM

People have used drugs for as long as they have tried to ease pain and avoid problems. Since the early 1960s, however, mental and spiritual effects and locates and fully resolves the reason underlying a person’s drug-taking. Nothing else can do this with certainty.

poonam
April 16th, 2009, 11:43 PM
This morning only, while driving to work, I was listening to the NPR and guess what ..the story being aired was about drugs addiction (due to misery mostly) among Afghanis including women and mothers..felt very sorry and sad, to say the least.
Here is the story I'm pasting from the NPR website:


Drug Addiction, And Misery, Increase In Afghanistan
by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson
A growing number of Afghans — including children — are escaping the pain of war and poverty by using opium or heroin, for as little as a dollar a day.

A United Nations survey begun this month is widely expected to show that at least 1 in 12 people in Afghanistan abuses drugs — double the number in the last survey four years ago.

Experts say that the alarming trend is not being addressed by the Afghan government and its international partners, even though most officials acknowledge that the drug scourge threatens lasting stability in Afghanistan.

Many of the addicts, especially the women, feed their habit in secret, inside walled, mud-floor family compounds.

An Afghan Mother Hooked
One addict, a woman named Karima, shares her home with her addicted parents and other relatives in a poor hillside neighborhood in Kabul. Local drug counselors say the neighborhood is home to thousands of addicts.

On a recent afternoon, Karima draws the curtains shut on the window of the room she shares with her six children. Her hands shaking, she pulls an old envelope out from underneath a plastic mat. Inside are opium pellets, which she smashes into an emptied cigarette casing and lights up.

"When I smoke this, I don't experience any unhappiness. My nerves calm down. If I don't do this I go crazy," Karima says.

Her young children suffer ill effects of being bathed by opium and heroin smoke since birth. They do not attend school.

The oldest is Fahima. At 12, she is the size of a child half her age. She has big brown eyes and bald spots on her head from malnutrition.

Fahima is the one her mother sends out to buy drugs to stoke her habit.

"My mom nags me to go get hashish and opium so she can be happy. If she doesn't use it, she gets angry and hits us all," Fahima says.

The soaring rates of drug abuse are driven in part by Afghanistan's widespread unemployment and social upheaval under the Taliban and the U.S.-led war, begun in 2001. Another factor is the flood of returning Afghan refugees from Iran, many of whom became heroin addicts there.

And fueling it all is an overabundance of opium and heroin in Afghanistan, the world's largest cultivator of poppies in the world.

The addicts say that heroin is a cheap way to forget their miserable existence.

Men Gather Amid Drugs And Filth

In Kabul, men gather daily at what used to be the Russian Cultural Center to get their heroin fix. At least 1,500 of them huddle in the darkened ruins, guarded by policemen in riot gear.

They use lighters to heat heroin paste on foil. Then they inhale it through thin plastic tubes or emptied cigarette casings. Heroin-laced smoke surrounds the men like a thick blanket.

Some of the addicts are lying on the ground. There are trash, feces and urine everywhere.

But they seem oblivious. They are all smoking and begging for money.

Abundance Of Drugs Fuels Demand
The U.N.'s Jean-Luc Lemahieu calls it the "Coca-Cola effect." The widespread abundance and affordability of the drugs have made them as ubiquitous and available as soft drinks.

"What people always forget is that not only demand creates supply, but supply creates demand," said Lemahieu, the representative in Kabul for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.

But even at $1 or $2 a day, an opium or heroin fix in Afghanistan can easily become unaffordable.

Back in the hillside slum in Kabul, Karima starts to cry during a visit by local drug treatment counselors.

Karima says she took her 5-year-old daughter, Raisa, to the market last month to sell her because she was desperate for cash. But she couldn't find a buyer.

For months, workers from a local drug treatment center have tried to get Karima and her family into a treatment program.

Saeeda, a counselor from the Nejat ("Rescue") drug treatment center, is aghast.

The Children Suffer
"How could you be so selfish?" she asks Karima. "Don't tell me you would have used the money to feed your family. You would have spent that money on drugs and then gone out and sold another one of your children."

Saeeda and her colleagues visit the compound a few days later to find an even nastier surprise.

Fahima, the 12-year-old daughter, is taking a deep drag off her mother's cigarette filled with heroin, opium and hashish.

The women ask: "Why did you do that? Do you like the taste?"

Fahima admits that she does.

Source:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102984398

deepika
April 17th, 2009, 12:35 AM
It may temporarily help a person to ease the pain but ofcourse its bad for health.Younth are inclined towards this addiction as it is considered as a 'Status Symbol' .Shocked to hear tht?But its true.Majority of famous celebs are into it.Be any pop singer,Hip hop band or rock band most of them do drugs.It makes youth feel that if they do it they will be like them.




People have used drugs for as long as they have tried to ease pain and avoid problems. Since the early 1960s, however, drugs have been in very widespread use. Before that time they were rare. A worldwide spread of drugs occurred during that decade, and a large percentage of people became drug-takers.
By drugs (to mention a few) are meant tranquilizers, opium, cocaine, marijuana, peyote, amphetamines and the psychiatrist’s gifts to man, LSD and angel dust, which are the worst. Any medical drugs are included. Drugs are drugs. There are thousands of trade names and slang terms for these drugs. Alcohol is also classified as a drug.
Drugs are supposed to do wonderful things but all they really do is ruin the person.
Drug problems do not end when a person stops taking drugs. The accumulated effects of drug-taking can leave one severely impaired, both physically and mentally. Even someone off drugs for years still has “blank periods.” Drugs can injure a person’s ability to concentrate, to work, to learn – in short, they can shatter a life.
Yet though the dangers and liabilities of drugs are blatantly obvious and increasingly well documented, people continue to take them.
Why?
When a person is depressed or in pain, and where he finds no physical relief from treatment, he will eventually discover for himself that drugs remove his symptoms.
This is also true for pains which are “psychosomatic.” The term “psychosomatic” means the mind making the body ill or illnesses caused through the mind. “Psycho” refers to “mind” and “soma” refers to “body.”
In almost all cases of psychosomatic pain, illness or discomfort the person has sought some cure for the upset.
When he at last finds that only drugs give him relief, he will surrender to them and become dependent upon them, often to the point of addiction.
Years before, had there been any other way out, most people would have taken it. But when they are told there is no cure, that their pains are “imaginary,” life tends to become insupportable. They then can become chronic drug-takers and are in danger of addiction.
The time required to make an addict varies, of course. The complaint itself may only be “sadness” or “weariness.” The ability to face life, in any case, is reduced.
Any substance that brings relief or makes life less a burden physically or mentally will then be welcome.
In an unsettled and insecure environment, psychosomatic illness is very widespread.
So before any government strikes too heavily at spreading drug use, it should recognize that it is a symptom of failed psychotherapy. The social scientist, the psychologist and psychiatrist and health ministers have failed to handle spreading psychosomatic illness.
It is too easy to blame the drug problem on “social unrest” or the “pace of modern society.”
The hard, solid fact is that until now there has been no effective psychotherapy in broad practice. The result is a drug-dependent population.
Drug users have been found to have begun taking drugs because of physical suffering or hopelessness.
The user, driven by pain and environmental hopelessness, continues to take drugs. Though he doesn’t want to be an addict, he doesn’t feel that there is any other way out.
However, with proper treatment, drug dependency can be fully handled.
As soon as he can feel healthier and more competent mentally and physically without drugs than he does on drugs, a person ceases to require drugs.
Drug addiction has been shrugged off by psychiatry as “unimportant” and the social problem of drug-taking has received no attention from psychiatrists – rather the contrary, since they themselves introduced and popularized LSD. And many of them are pushers.
Government agencies have failed markedly to halt the increase in drug-taking and there has been no real or widespread cure.
The liability of the drug user, even after he has ceased to use drugs, is that he “goes blank” at unexpected times, has periods of irresponsibility and tends to sicken easily.
Scientology technology has been able to eradicate the major damage in persons who have been on drugs as well as make further addiction unnecessary and unwanted.
Scientology has no interest in the political or social aspects of the various types of drugs or even drug-taking as such. Drugs, however, pose a growing threat to mental and spiritual advancement – which is the true mission of Scientology.
Thus, Scientology contains an exact technology which not only gets a person painlessly off drugs but handles their physical, mental and spiritual effects and locates and fully resolves the reason underlying a person’s drug-taking. Nothing else can do this with certainty.

rocky0036
April 25th, 2009, 11:27 AM
It may temporarily help a person to ease the pain but ofcourse its bad for health.Younth are inclined towards this addiction as it is considered as a 'Status Symbol' .Shocked to hear tht?But its true.Majority of famous celebs are into it.Be any pop singer,Hip hop band or rock band most of them do drugs.It makes youth feel that if they do it they will be like them.
some takes it as a fashion
mostly young boys