Alcohol Is No Drink

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 - From the Cradle to the Grave Reality - D.Nentwig

- The Time Has Come To End Glamourising Alcohol Sponsorship.

 - Alcohol is a High Risk Drug, Warns Experts.

 - Alcohol is Killing Our Kids - Australian Medical Association

- Dress Up For Drugs

 

From The Cradle To The Grave Reality....D.Nentwig

 

When a baby is born, it starts drinking.

It drinks breast milk or formula and graduates to cow’s milk, water and fruit juice.

 Then, as the baby becomes a young child, it gets targeted by caffeine’s/ tri-methyl-xanthine’s recreational drug dealers who convince them, and their parents that they're still only 'drinking'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                As the child Go to fullsize imagegrows up, it also gets targeted    by ethane hydroxide, (ethyl alcohol’s true psychoactive drug name), recreational  drug dealers, pushers and consumers who also convince them that they’re ‘only drinking’…..They have a lot of help, and not just from advertising.

 e.g. ('Here's your drink, daddy, can I have a sip?" As he gets older, it will be, "Get me a beer son, and get one for yourself").

  Even the Police teach and convince them, “You’re only drinking”.

  NEWSFLASH: “An intoxicated boy, 15, allegedly assaulted a Police Officer in Bellingen on Thursday night.” - Simple under-standing… you cannot get intoxicated by drinking, but you can by consuming the toxic, recreational, psychoactive drug ethanol. This kid will most probably get locked up for this. Yet, the drug pushing/drug taking police force do not understand that they need to get down on their knees and beg the forgiveness of a child, that they helped teach and programme, that drugs are drinks. (All kids know is, "Not until you're 18, son", then they can 'drink' to their heart's content.... as long as they stay out of trouble).

     The Police stand side by side with drug cartels stating, “Come on board and help the ethanol drug lord accord”….except they disguise it with the word ‘liquor accord’. (see 'articles 2' page) They stand behind the bar of pubs and have their photos taken (see pic. on 'articles 1' page). They hand out 'awards' to publicans for being 'responsible' drug dealers. Yet these same publicans can get a person to the point of actually being drunk and then throw them out for 'being drunk', out onto the street for someone else to deal with or the people at home to deal with!

      Politicians teach and convince them that they’re only ‘drinking’, while allowing drug lord and drug cartel logos to be proudly displayed everywhere, to target all ages with drugs, both imported and local.

     Sporting groups teach and convince them that they’re only ‘drinking’, while allowing drug cartels to buy up and sponsor sport, and wield it as a massive drug pushing vehicle that targets all ages. They even create sports just to deal drugs (ie XXXX Beach Cricket, Johnny Walker Classic, the VB cricket series, Carlton Draught group 2 Drugby League etc), while hunting people down and stating, “No tolerance on drugs in Sport”. No wonder these kids are confused if these druggies are so delusional themselves and are teaching this delusion to the next generation, destined for buzzword ‘legal’ intoxication.

     Teachers teach and convince them that they’re only ‘drinking’ - Drug Education vs Drink Education in Schools. “Say no to drugs, while ‘your’ school is sponsored by drug dealers and allow various sports people and groups to come in and give a talk on sport while wearing drug cartel logos, just like they allow the drug dealing bike group (Bottle mart ‘Hell on Wheels’) to ride into schools discussing bike safety while wearing ‘Bottlemart’ drug labels on their sport’s gear - and thereby helping to teach children that drugs not only go great with sport, but with charity as well.

     M.P’s, Councillors, Mayors and their staff all teach and convince them that they’re only ‘drinking’, and why not? They get paid a lot of money to let drug cartels have free reign to target all ages, equally, in every medium imaginable while these same ethanol, nicotine, caffeine and pharmaceutical drug takers tell kids to ‘say no to drugs’.

     Celebrities, Media, Charities and so-called Anti-Drug Campaigners all teach and convince them that they’re only ‘drinking’. Charities now push drugs in the name of charity; celebrities advocate drugs, media constantly pushes and advertises drugs and so called anti-drug campaigners state, “Say no to any drug we don’t particularly like, take, advocate or are sponsored by”.

     Parents teach and convince them that they’re only ‘drinking’, and why not? As long as these collectives keep teaching this blatant lie, they can get away with as much drug dealing, drug pushing, drug trafficking, drug advocating, drug sponsorship, drug cartel protecting and drug taking as they like. Yet these same drug users, abusers and addicts love stating, “Drugs are bad….don’t take drugs!……‘Drink’ instead”.

     They help establish drug empires (even if they don’t realize it), while stating, “Dob in a drug dealer”, and “Help get drugs off the street".

     They love telling ½ truths. e.g “Cellarbrations….helping you celebrate…..with drugs”. “Shoot down to your local….ethanol drug dealer”. “Double Up…..on the drug ethanol”. “Multi-buy…the drug ethanol”. “Dru-u-u-u-ugs…close to you”. “Get your liquor (drugs) quicker” and so on and so forth.

     They state that a diuretic, (dehydrating) drug can actually rehydrate, (quench) your thirst.

    They sweep under the carpet and suppress the fact that 60 medical conditions stem from the abuse of a psychoactive drug called ‘drink’.

     They state that 80% of street assaults, 74% of domestic violence, 45% of reported child abuse, vehicle and boat accidents, drownings, injuries and other social ills to the tune of $15.6 BILLION worth of death (6,000 dead and rising and tens of thousands of hospitalisations and visits to the Emergency Rooms of the Hospitals per year), damage, destruction and side effects (both acute and chronic) per year, stems from irresponsible ‘drinking’ and not ethanol drug abuse.

     Accidents in vehicles are caused from ‘drink’ driving and not ethanol drug abuse. Things happened because people ‘drank too much’ instead of abused the drug ethanol.

     This delusional psychosis must be stopped. Remember, the generation that  criticizes the one that comes after them is the generation that taught and raised them.

                                              A grave reality indeed!

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The Time Has Come To End Glamourising Alcohol Sponsorship

 Mike Daub - March 31st 2007  The Australian

    THE woes of Ben Cousins and the West Coast Eagles have been dominating the headlines, and commentators from sports journalists to the Prime Minister have weighed in to condemn the use of illicit drugs by high-profile sports stars.

    The AFL's so-called drug policy, which seems to be more about keeping drug problems under wraps than about enabling clubs to deal with wayward players, is in tatters and must surely be re-written. But illicit drug use is the tip of the iceberg.

    For the AFL as for the rest of the community, a drug that causes far more problems for both sports stars and society does not attract the same level of concern from prime ministers, politicians and sporting administrators.

    Sporting heroes and alcohol do not make a good mix. The West Coast Eagles have had their problems here too, but they are in good company. Their peers from other AFL clubs regularly hit the media headlines as a result of alcoholic excesses. Every other high-profile sport appears to face similar problems, and despite regular solemn assertions from sporting administrators that they are "disappointed", nothing changes. There are almost daily reports of drunken rampages, assaults, drink-driving and various other forms of unacceptable behaviour by the stars of rugby league, rugby union, soccer and even cricket.

    Last week one of England's few current cricketing idols, Freddy Flintoff, was "full of shame" and lost his team's vice-captaincy after an alcohol-fuelled escapade at the World Cup for which he and several team-mates were disciplined.

    Flintoff at least seems to have put only himself at risk: all too often our home-grown drunken heroes hit the headlines for attacking others, male and female.

    But how can the sports that employ them expect anything else? Our major sports are afloat on a sea of alcohol sponsorship.

    The recent Australian cricket season was a festival of televised promotion for alcohol. Any kids with an interest in cricket would have seen their idols being used on one channel to promote VB beer, Johnny Walker whisky or Wolf Blass wine – and if they switched over to another channel they would have seen equally intense promotion of XXXX Gold Beer in a series designed apparently solely for the purpose of promoting beer.

    Test cricket coverage was dominated by promotion of Boonie and Beefy figurines promoting VB beer, none too subtly reminding us of the reputation some of our cricketers had for getting through as much beer as the airlines were willing to put in front of them.

    TV sporting coverage brings us almost non-stop alcohol sponsorship – along with superbly produced ads for brands such as Cougar, Hahn Ice, Heineken, and Bundaberg Rum. Even the TV programs that solemnly draw attention to alcohol and drug problems are dominated by alcohol promotion.

    The Footy Show celebrates alcohol – from the Jim Beam advertising on the set to Trevor Marmalade "behind the bar", complemented by sexually charged Jim Beam commercials during the program. The AFL Footy Show's devotion to its sponsor has included presenter Sam Newman appearing to skull a bottle of the product, while over on the NRL version, according to Jim Beam's advertising agency, Channel 9 even allowed Jim Beam to "take ownership" of a segment.

    The concerns about alcohol and other drugs so regularly expressed by sporting organisations would be more convincing if they were not financially fuelled by alcohol sponsorship.

    Alcohol sponsorship is easy money, as tobacco sponsorship once was, and the claims of drinks industry companies that they do not promote to children and young people are just as meretricious as the same long-discredited claims once made by tobacco companies.

    The website of every AFL club shows liquor companies as sponsors or major partners. The "Game Development" link on the AFL website ("if you want to get into junior club football") provides links to seven state and territory sites, of which five promote drinks industry sponsors. The NRL, whose record of alcohol-fuelled mayhem is if anything even worse than that of the AFL, is similarly sponsored by Foster's and Bundaberg Rum, with the website proudly promoting "Carlton Draught Friday Night Footy". Rugby union players aspire to play in the Bundaberg Rum test series.

    Alcohol is a major cause of road crashes and deaths, yet Foster's sponsors the Australian Grand Prix, while Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's cars compete in the V8 Supercars series, which also promotes VB beer. It would be hard to think of a more incongruous or irresponsible association, but perhaps race organisers have never attended an emergency department.

    There are currently no effective controls on advertising and promotion of alcohol. Liquor companies will clearly be happy to get away with their freedom for as long as they can, and to sponsor as many high-profile sports as possible. Meantime, the tragic consequences of drunken behaviour, whether by sporting stars or binge-drinking adolescents, are a national problem requiring determined action at the national level by governments and sporting authorities. Surely the time has come to end the insidious promotion of alcohol as an indispensable accompaniment to sporting success. Our role models and the community alike will continue to face mixed messages about drugs while so many sports stars remain hooked on alcohol.

Mike Daube is professor of health policy at Curtin University of Technology, Perth

 

Alcohol is a high risk drug, warn experts

 

Alcohol is a high risk drug, warn experts
Wednesday, 07 November 2007
University of Otago

    Health researchers at the University of Otago, Christchurch and the Medical Research Institute in Wellington are arguing that alcohol is a high risk drug according to the national classification regulations. This follows comparative research with another similar, but illegal drug, into its effect on public health.

    The results of this study were presented at the APSAD/Cutting Edge Conference at the Aotea Centre in Auckland on 7 November 2007.

    "There's no doubt that alcohol is a potentially dangerous drug when we look at the mayhem it causes in relation to public health, crime, and social disruption," says principal investigator Professor Doug Sellman, from the University's National Addiction Centre. "Following this peer-reviewed analysis we think the time has come for a serious reappraisal of the way drugs are classified under the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975)".

    The research consisted of a comparison of alcohol with a similar liquid sedative drug, gamma hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) or 'Fantasy', which was scheduled as a Class B1 (high risk) drug under the Act in 2001.

    Under the six main criteria for classification under the law they found that the risk to public health from alcohol is at least at the level of GHB, and alcohol could be argued to be a 'somewhat more dangerous drug because of its greater inherent toxicity'. The uninhibited intoxication of alcohol also tends to be of greater duration than GHB.

    The researchers point out that the negative influence of alcohol has been recognised for decades, contributing to a significant proportion of the global burden of disease. Alcohol has been linked to more than 60 medical conditions, with half the alcohol-related deaths in New Zealand attributable to chronic diseases, especially cancers. The other half are due to injuries while under the influence, especially amongst young people.

    Most studies have concluded that there are no health benefits from alcohol before middle age, and the much publicised cardio-protective effect of drinking only occurs in men over 40 and women post-menopause.

    "Despite this we're not saying that alcohol should be prohibited. We simply want its dangerousness better publicised" says Professor Sellman. "What the results of our analysis can contribute is a more objective perspective on alcohol, especially in relation to other recreational drugs".

    The researchers say that this study highlights the limitations of drug classification in New Zealand and other western countries when alcohol and tobacco, the two drugs we know most about, are excluded from consideration. This is a situation which has been described in one UK report as an 'un-evidence-based mess'.

    Professor Sellman argues that including tobacco and alcohol in the evaluation of drugs and their risks to public health, would hopefully result in a more rational discussion about recreational drug use in general, leading to more effective public policy. 

Alcohol is Killing our Kids - Australian Medical Assoc.

As Schoolies Week and alcohol combine to produce tragic headlines about death and injury to young people and reports of antisocial behaviour by drunken teenagers, the AMA is calling for stronger policies to curb dangerous excess alcohol consumption.

AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said today that irresponsible alcohol consumption causes harm across all age groups in the community, but the senseless loss of young lives through alcohol abuse must be stopped as a priority.

"Alcohol abuse by young people, highlighted by the culture of binge drinking, is harming the health of thousands of Australians every year," Dr Capolingua said.

Alcohol is second only to tobacco as a preventable cause of drug-related death and hospitalisations in Australia.

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) reports that alcohol abuse costs Australia $15.3 billion a year through alcohol-related crime and violence, treatment costs, loss of productivity, and premature death.

According to the NHMRC, alcohol accounts for 13 per cent of all deaths among 14-17 year old Australians. The NHMRC estimates that one Australian teenager dies and more than 60 are hospitalised each week from alcohol-related causes.

"The binge drinking culture is alive and well in Australia and urgent action is needed to re-educate Australians about safe levels of alcohol consumption," Dr Capolingua said.

"The most frightening thing is that binge drinking has hit epidemic proportions among our young people.

"There is a disturbing acceptance, or even celebration, of excess drinking in Australia. Many people view it as a national pastime to be proud of.

"Young people are placing increasing social importance on how drunk they are when they go out, and young women in particular make a point of 'keeping up' with their male friends.

"We have to seriously question a society where young adults start their evening by getting drunk at home so they can enjoy their night out more.

"The drunken public behaviour of role models and celebrities, such as sporting heroes, is just helping to glamorise binge drinking in the eyes of Australians.

"People simply aren't aware of the tragic consequences of binge drinking.

"Many people just think about their hangover the next morning, and don't consider the long-term effects like brain damage or heart disease, let alone the immediate danger they may put themselves in while they are intoxicated."

A study by Alcohol Related Brain Injury Australian Services indicates that two million Australians, or one in eight adults, are at risk of permanent brain damage from alcohol.

At the same time, patterns of alcohol consumption have changed to reflect new products, with a doubling since 2001 in the proportion of teenagers consuming pre-mixed spirits.

Dr Capolingua said while initiatives such as the new NHMRC alcohol guidelines were helping to raise awareness of safe drinking, many public education campaigns were not effective in encouraging people to moderate their drinking.

"Alcohol education campaigns often focus on the number of standard drinks and this doesn't always make sense to people," Dr Capolingua said.

"People often think of the amount of alcohol they've consumed in terms of how many glasses they've had, how long they have been drinking, or how drunk they feel. It can be difficult in a social situation to judge what a standard drink is.

"This inconsistency in the way we refer to safe drinking levels makes it difficult to raise public awareness about alcohol-related harm.

"The harmful effects of alcohol abuse, including binge drinking, impact not just on the drinker, but on friends and family, the workplace, the wider community, and the health system.

"We need national public awareness campaigns that clearly and simply show the dangers of alcohol abuse, and which use language that people can easily understand."

The AMA is committed to achieving a reduction in the incidence of hazardous and harmful levels of alcohol consumption and is calling for:

- a partnership between the Government, industry, and community representatives to mobilise public opinion to recognise that hazardous alcohol consumption is socially unacceptable,

- increased taxes that directly reflect the total volume of alcohol in products to encourage a shift to consumption of products containing less alcohol,

-standard alcohol drink labelling that includes information on the health and social risk associated with excess consumption and which is displayed in a prominent position on - all alcohol containers and is easily understood by the consumer,

- all advertisements for alcoholic beverages to encourage no more than the NHMRC-recommended levels of alcohol consumption, and to raise awareness about hazardous levels of consumption,

- stricter controls to curb the marketing of products like 'alcopops' (sweetened ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages) to teenagers, and

- effective, wide-reaching public education campaigns highlighting the risks associated with binge drinking and based on appropriate consultation and engagement with the key target audience groups.

Australian Medical Association

Dress Up For Drugs....

THE  SAME  COLOURS

    According to The Coffs Coast Advocate, the colours of clothing for the VB Gold Ethanol Drug and Racing Festival are purple, black and blue.
    What a co-incidence!…. as these are the same standard colours for street assault, domestic violence and child abuse.

    Now, considering that:
 84% of street and pub assaults,
74% of domestic violence, and

45% of reported child abuse
stems from the abuse of the drug that now sponsors our Racing Festival, when people wear these colours they should wear them in the same way that we wear coloured ribbons to highlight awareness of any disease….
…..and yes, ethanol drug abuse and its consequences is a DISEASE that floods our hospitals and emergency rooms with over 72,000 admissions a year.

    It is a disease that kills 6,000 a year, yet we didn’t give a damn when it was 3,400 or 4,600. It just keeps rising.

DRESS DOWN DRUG FREE DAY.....

We cannot have Councillors. Mayors, Politicians, Media and so-called anti-drug campaigners stating, that for one day a year it’s ‘Dress Down Drug Free’….(as ‘Drug Action Week’/ “Alcohol is a Drug….TOO! Week” was virtually non-existent, it was “Good Booze Week” as usual) …..when for the other 364 days a year, they state, “Dress up Druggie” as they allow drug cartels and drug dealers to buy, sponsor and advocate drugs in every medium they can (including again, our Coffs Harbour FAMILY/ all ages/ yes-children-read-this-too, TV Guide which on July 19th decided to push the VB Drug Cartel for drug money…see below -   

       Note: Next to it is an advertising statement saying, “Look, you could have had more than two out of every the Coffs Coast notice the products and services of your business, for less than $65 per week. They forgot to state that one out of these two people is UNDER 18, and they also forgot to state the truth on their advertisement. Their deluded statement ‘set a responsible pace this cup carnival‘ should actually be, ‘set a responsible drug taking example, for yourself and others, this VB Gold Coffs Cup Ethanol Drug and Sport Carnival.’  

     Yes, it is a mouthful, but there are no short-cuts when it comes to telling the truth about drugs and drug pushing. Drug dealers may believe there are, but it’s ethanol drug short cuts that contribute to the 6,000 dead and the rest of the social and economic side effects/costs.    

    One of these short cuts is calling a recreational, psychoactive drug, a ‘drink’ or a ‘beverage’, and calling ethanol drug cartels ‘drink/ beverage manufacturers’. Why else do you think they’re allowed to state their delusion: ‘DRINK RESPONSIBLY,’ blatant ethanol drug abuse is called ‘EXCESSIVE DRINKING’ and driving under the influence of the drug ethanol is called ‘DRINK‘DRIVING…..and Police can’t figure out why their ‘DRINK’ messages aren’t getting through?

     Maybe they need to change them to ethanol drug messages, and then they can admit that they actually take toxic, recreational, psychoactive drugs and protect and work side by side with the dealers, the pushers, the traffickers and the cartels  while toting the “Say NO to Drugs’ slogan.  

                                        The website for this drug and Sport Fest is   
                                                     www.enjoy_responsibly.com  
             
    Why the dash? Well, it‘s easier than writing the truth ‘www.enjoy Ethanol DRUGS responsibly.com’ - but this would mean that they would have to admit they deal drugs, and the rest of the ethanol drug collective would have to come out of denial.

     Why do we allow a Family Day with statements like, “FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY; NBN’s Big Dog; jumping castle; chair-o-plane; face painting and Big Dog’s kids’ fashions on the field to be associated with An 18+ drug and sport festival. Has Nine’s Booze Network’s (Nine’s Wide World of Drugs and other drug pushing in Family hours states this loud and clear) Big Dog become Big Grog? Just another drug mascot?

-- ‘Take drugs, but don’t take drugs’ - signed Bundy, the bi-polar bear and his friends the bi-polar politicians, the bi-polar sporting groups, the bi-polar media, the bi-polar Mayor and Councillors, the bi-polar Police and we mustn‘t forget the bi-polar Parents. No wonder kids are confused! The adults sure are. They think their drug is a ‘drink’.

    Is Drug association becoming so prevalent that we can now state, “Ethanol drug pushing, drug taking, drug abuse and drug dealing is more than Racing - it is the ‘heart of the community’. And the only bit of delusion they state to the drug taking community is ‘enjoy responsibly’  the ‘drinking beer’ that people seem to forget has a psychoactive, recreational drug in it?

 

 

Note: they are wearing VB drug logos and are VB Drug Ambassadors.

 

 

 

    If ethanol drug pushing celebrity ‘ambassadors’ Scott Cam, Laurie Daley and Gorden Tallis came up to Coffs to push an illicit drug and an illicit drug cartel and said, “It’s okay if drugs and drug cartels sponsor sport, we’re proud to push them/ advocate them/ be ambassadors for them”, then the same people who stand side by side with them to push drugs ie Police, Media, Councillors, Parents etc. would drag them over the proverbial coals and try to get them jailed. Amazing the difference the word ‘licit’ makes when it comes to drug pushing and drug advocation to all ages equally.

    This could help to explain why those Coffs Harbourites who tell us to say NO to drugs (illicits only, of course), didn’t give a damn when Big Dipper came up and became both the King of the AFL kids and the King of the BWS ethanol drug dealer push.

  

    Oh yes, even though they’re having a Family Day and are flooding every medium with drug and sport advocation and paraphernalia, the club is also focusing on preventing underage ‘drinking‘. One of these days they’ll actually have the guts to focus on underage ethanol drug consumption, but they can’t even state the word ‘drug’ next to the drug they deal. Talk about cowardice.

     And last but not least, a bunch of drug takers and drug pushers:
the Coffs Harbour City Council in conjunction with N.S.W. Sport and Recreation
(No wonder ethanol drug pushing and taking flows freely through both of these), the Coffs Clarence Local Area Command Licensing (to deal psychoactive drugs) Police; the Good Sport’s Program
(that seems to believe that pushing drugs in Sport is all good, while telling people to ‘Say NO to Drugs’/ No Tolerance on drugs in Sport), and the Office of Liquor / ethanol drug dealing, Gaming and racing/ gambling;

                                                          PRESENTS
    “A forum to discuss issues associated with the responsible management of alcohol (the psychoactive drug ethanol) at community sport’s venues. Hosted at the Blue Room at the Coffs Ex-Services ethanol drug club.

     This just shows how deluded they really are. For, if there was actually responsible management all the way down from the Dealer to the Consumer then they wouldn’t need a forum. Forums of discussion stem from issues of irresponsible management and blatant abuse. This is why they need a Forum. ie  In Tuesday’s (July 28th) Coffs Coast Advocate, the statement was, “Police back cameras in CBD’s worse crime zones”. WHY? Because, and I quote, “Alcohol related violence continues to spiral out of control, Police are tired of responding to more and more late night and early morning assaults in the CBD.    

  

Inspector Cameron Lindsay  said, “A rise in alcohol related crime was not isolated to Coffs Harbour”. You don’t say, Inspector. Yet, you and others still call this recreational, psychoactive, toxic drug a ‘drink’?

    

Also, considering that a large percentage of depression and other mental disorders stems from the abuse of the drug ethanol (albeit forgotten), maybe they should temporarily change the name of the Room they’re having the forum in to the Beyond Blue Room.…lest they forget!

Interesting statement. “When life is too much to bear, take drugs!”

 And while all this drug pushing and drug advocation is going on, where are our so-called anti-drug groups?

WHERE IS LIFE EDUCATION  when Sport, Celebrity, Fashion, Music, Politics, Charity, Family Events, Media and Public/ National Holidays all state, “Let’s kick field goals for drugs and drug cartels”?

 

                         What links our major Political Parties together?
 

As you can see, our P.M. Kevin Rudd, like 94% of Australians consumes the recreational, psychoactive drug ethanol.                                    
  So what was that about the ‘Say NO to drugs Policy?’. State the truth - the Criteria of Harm has been thrown in the garbage and replaced with the, “Say NO to any drug and drug culture that ‘we’ don’t personally or professionally agree with, that ‘we’ aren’t sponsored by/ politically or charitably donated to, and that ‘we’ don’t  personally consume, whether on a medical or recreational basis….or else.

   

    $16 Million from one drug dealing company to pay off charities and local communities to turn blind eyes is one thing, but considering that $16 BILLION is ethanol drug abuse cost, it’ll take a lot of drug lords contributions to make this up. Of course they can do it, however, no amount of compensation can truly compensate someone for being a victim of domestic violence, of child abuse, of assault, of violation, or injury caused from the abuse of a drug that they (legal drug lords) call ‘drink’ .

    Where is Drug Free Australia when Drug cartels offer free drugs or ‘buy drugs get drugs free’, or ‘double up/ multi-buy drugs’, or ’buy drugs and get free petrol’, or ’buy drugs and win prizes’ etc? 

    Or state, ‘Don’t forget the drugs this Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Anzac Day, Australia Day, Christmas, Easter, New Year’s etc. while, of course, leaving the dreaded word ‘DRUG’ out of the equation.

     There are a multitude of so-called anti-drug campaigners who are completely pro-drugs (both recreational and medicinal) yet anti-choice. No wonder kids are confused!

At the moment it’s like a heroin dealer and a heroin/di-morphine drug taker getting together to tell people to just ‘say NO to cocaine hydro-chloride”. If you don’t agree, the facts state that ethanol is a 1:4 LD50 ratio and heroin is 1:6. Remember, Dr. Alex Wodak’s statement, in 2005, “We must make alcohol as big an issue as heroin. Instead, drug lords and their backers made ethanol drug taking as fun and attractive an issue as possible, while sweeping under the carpet the issues caused from the abuse of the drug ethanol and the abusive practices that now govern it. 

  • Druggies hunting druggies does not make good policy.
  • Druggies telling others to ‘say no to drugs’ does not make good policy.
  • Druggies in denial ie “We don’t take drugs, we only ‘drink’” is not good policy.

    These are dangerous and socially segregate policies that contribute to the disease that has the standard colours of black, blue and purple.

                                           Something to think about.

 

Family Drug Support has a Stepping Stones to Success Program. What a coincidence. So do legal drug pushing collectives.

  • Step 1: Call your drug anything else but a drug ie ‘drink’, ‘beverage’, ‘medication‘, ‘food’ etc.
  • Step 2: Separate your drug and your drug cartels from other hated drugs.
  • Step 3: Associate your drug and your drug cartel with every all age medium imaginable.
  • Step 4: Pay off Councillors, mayors, Media, Police and supposed ‘say no to drugs’ campaigners so they turn a blind eye, while you flood every medium and every mind with attractive drug pushing.
  • Step 5: Associate public events and holidays with your drug and its dealers, traffickers, cartels and advocates.
  • Step 6: Associate your drug and its cartels with different forms of recreation ie sport, music, fashion, celebrities, TV, newspapers, magazines, Internet etc.
  • Step 7: Make sure that different mediums/ groups (including charities) become dependant on your drug money. This includes Politicians.
  • Step 8: Make sure your particular drug brand is pushed as attractively, colourfully, and excitingly as possible with drug mascots, slogans, logos, ads etc.
  • Step 9: Enjoy your drug and drug cartel success while those who supposedly tell others to ‘say NO to drugs’/ not tolerate drugs, wipe out your drug and drug cartel’s competition for you, while those in power (including your Prime Minister) raise your drug in the air in celebration.
  • There is a Step 10: Turn a blind eye to the 6,000 dead per year, 74,000 hospitalised, the 60 medical conditions associated with this drug, the $16 BILLION in social cost, the 84% street and pub assaults, 74% of domestic violence and 45% of reported child abuse.

  “Then, let us forget accidents, drownings, murders, smashed glass and vomit all over our streets and in our playgrounds. Let us forget about the kids as young as 10 now running ethanol-wild and also prostituting themselves for this drug”.

    The problem is, while they and others are doing all this forgetting, the victims of ethanol and other forms of drug abuse are constantly being reminded of it. Just imagine, being an alcoholic and everywhere you looked, everything you read, (including your formerly sacred Family TV Guide), everything you watched was telling you, as attractively as possible, that no matter your will power, eventually you will give in to the FLOOD and return, like a proverbial dog to its vomit, to the abuse and addiction that you let destroy you in the first place. Alcoholics don’t have to imagine this, it’s a blatant reality….and kids and alcoholics/ ethanol drug addicts see it every day in every way, just like the rest of the populace.

 

 

 

(Left: Drug Trafficker, advertising to all ages. What an 'attractive' and 'attention getting' vehicle - the Carlton Draught Beer Academy). 

 

 

 

   The simple fact of the matter is, it is not the drug of choice or the drug dealer or the cartel involved, or the drug culture involved that is the problem. It is, and always has been, ABUSE manifested by individuals and collectives on their drug of choice, and ABUSE manifested through abusive drug dealing, drug manufacturing, drug trafficking, drug pushing and drug advocating practices, as well as of course the blatant abuse that has been manifested on the flow of correct and factual information on all drugs of choice equally.

                                         Mis-Use of Drugs Act....

 One can see this simply in the simple fact that we have a Mis-Use of Drugs Act that firstly does not allow USE of select drugs of choice, but blatantly allows the hard core ABUSE of other drugs of choice that those who write the laws stand for and back to the hilt.

All we need to do is to remove the dangerous, violatory, socially segregate policy that we have in Australia, known as selective prohibition - or simply known as the, ‘Our drugs all good, your drugs all bad” policy, which like we stated before, threw out the Criterias of Harm, Safety and Efficacy and replaced them with two umbrella policies that were completely socially segregate from each other. This form of policy worldwide is known as ‘apartheid discrimination’. Maybe this will help you to understand, looking back in history, just how dangerous and destructive a policy this is - then understand why we are not getting anywhere when it comes to respect for drugs in this country, licit or illicit.

    Also, as one collective gains power from eradicating the other collective, they become massive Corporate Empires that now dictate Government Policy. Why do you think that legal drug cartels have been allowed to FLOOD every single medium, every single environment, every single age, while Governments, Police, Media, Celebrities, teachers, Mayors, Councillors, Parents and all the rest target their competition, the ‘illicit’ umbrella collective?

    While they’re off crusading against the drugs they don’t like, ie ex-P.M.John Howard’s statement: “The scourge of illicit drugs”… the true scourge and the ‘legal’ drug empires that help to deal it out has been allowed to rise without abatement.

    Interesting, isn’t it that as soon as cigarettes/ tobacco became politically unviable, no matter the Political donations, the Government of the time jumped in and finally started targeting the delivery system of the drug nicotine - the cigarette/ smoke. However, they and others instantly jumped on to the new nicotine drug dealing bandwagon with pills, patches and gum etc. and started working side by side (as well as Doctors) with at least two nicotine drug cartels, ie “Nicorette, Nicorette, it’s still a drug, don’t forget” and “Nicabate, Nicabate, realize it’s a drug before it’s too late!”.

     Meanwhile, while cigarettes/ tobacco were being hunted, the ethanol (and Caffeine) drug lords moved in on their vacated territory, only this time with a vengeance! Anything that had room for a sign, logo, slogan, banner or other form of advertisement now ‘graced’ the areas that cigarettes had formerly ‘graced’ (and more). But, the above article on the babies, and the above article ‘Changes in the Air’, brings to mind a simple question…..

    WHY has the Cancer Council, among others, fallen strangely silent when it comes to the drug ethanol’s capability to cause and assist in causing most forms of cancer?………….Something to think about.

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