What would Christ Say about Drug Prevention!?

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Greetings Guys,

I’m new to community. I am trying to outreach parents who are interested in improving the lives of their teenagers. If you want your family to have a healthy life style, join me on Facebook. We are running a Drug Prevention week on Facebook.com/Careteen

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My question is how far are we willing to go to prevent our teens from substance abuse? Are we as parents doing enough to make sure that our kids are well informed of the dangers it causes to smoke a cigarette? We had ‘No-Tobacco Day’ last week and to spread this cause I’m personally trying to reach out to people and getting them to stop this evil act.

Anyhow, I would love to get to know other members from community. Hoping to get some positive response.

God bless everyone.
Phoebe
 
Tobacco is almost obsolete among young kids.

Most are also not smoking weed in an unhealthy way. They use vaporizers which don’t give you lung cancer.

What people need to watch out for are PRESCRIPTION drugs. One in every four American women is addicted. They are legal.
 
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Yes and this I believe would have been one of my Callings years ago; in fact it was now that I recall and have helped quite a few teenagers on a few occasions with Jesus’ and Our Lady Mary’s wisdom flowing through!
 
A crusade against drug’s is always in order. And presicption drug’s, well, I think it is up to the doctors to put a stop to that. However, sometimes a pill is the only thing that will do the trick. It is a very thin line, and almost impossible to be sure that the person sobbing in your surgery how hard life is and what has happen. And sometimes drugs are given only to get rid of a person who have problems you don’t want to hear.

There are some promising systems that one day, and soon, are able to keep an eye on who buys and what, and above all, how much. But there are a down side with keeping track on pres. drugs, there has been, are, and will always be, people who need them. Sleeping pills, trancuilizers are sometimes the only suitable remedy. And pain-killers are another story. They are often taken much to long times, and sadly, also kept “in hide” for those in need.

Others will most certanily comment on the illegal drugs and this a thread that is very important.

And what would Christ have said? Behind every user, is it abuse or does the person need them are a person who for some reason need them, we can not say that abuse is always wrong, if you need a Valium (Sorry for the ad, the moderator can alter this if it is wrong to use a name of a certain drug,) to sleep, or stay up all night, but a doctor has told you that “well, you will get sleep when you are tired…” a sleeping pill/tranquilizer is the right thing to use, so I think Christ would be what He always are, understanding, forgiving and comforting. However, we need to do something about theese problems, but as it is now, it will cause collateral damage, and that is one thing we must figure out how to reduce to a minimum.
 
Young people are still starting to smoke; just not in H.S. rather in college. The teen smoking rate is down but the young adult 18 - 24 smoking rate hasn’t changed in many years. If you want to get the stats you do the googling. Start with the American Lung Association.

The reason the overall smoking rate is lower is due to adults stopping smoking.

Young women are more likely to start than young men.

The south has more overall smokers due to lower prices and availability.

If our body is His Temple I’d say He wouldn’t want us to smoke. But also not become morbidly obese, lead a sedentary lifestyle or drink.

Our number one killer drug is alcohol. It’s our number one socially acceptable drug to abuse. Nobody needs beer, wine or spirits but we ‘bless it’ by allowing it to be consumed and sold even in grocery stores and pharmacies. At CVS the beer is in the same cooler as the milk!

Could you define what drugs you are asking about? Schedule I drugs with no medical reason such as LSD, meth, pot, or schedule II or III or IV or what?

Drug prevention is more about getting kids to have self respect than it is about educating them about the effects of drugs. A kid knowing he is worthy of the Love of Christ is less likely to do drugs than the kid who either thinks God doesn’t love him or doesn’t love God.

Prescription drug abuse is difficult to define as many who are taking meds for legitimate reasons are hooked psychologically but actually need the drugs for real ongoing pain issues or whatever.

Drug prevention is first and foremost about making sure kids see themselves as worthy and if a kid is having problems in any area; academically, socially, physically, mentally to provide them with an adult mentor or good peer group or both.
 
Catechism of the Catholic Church
2291 The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.
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why should we support this endeavor Phoebe,i have perused the facebook site facebook.com/CareTeen and the main site careteen.com/types-of-schooling/religious-activities-in-public-schools-a-major-concern-for-parents/ where i find statements like this
The biggest modern-day menace for the church’s separation from the state is in public school – the place wherein American parents send their children to learn the values of tolerance and freedom.
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on the whole it seems to be a pretty secular organization . there is nothing i can see promoting Christian,let alone Catholic worldview 🤷
 
JackieMom said:
Using tobacco is an evil act??
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No, it’s not. And while I support efforts to curb actual drug use, lumping tobacco alcohol and caffeine in with illicit drugs does more harm than good. It trivializes the concept and costs the effort credibility.
 
Corki said:
No, it’s not. And while I support efforts to curb actual drug use, lumping tobacco alcohol and caffeine in with illicit drugs does more harm than good. It trivializes the concept and costs the effort credibility.
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Amen and applause!
 
"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own;“you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.” - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV 2011)
 
Perhaps Jesus would say that drug abuse is like worshiping a false god. When you use alcohol or drugs to get high, to feel pleasure, to get a rush, the feeling may be “like heaven” but is a cheap, meaningless counterfeit in comparison to the joy and bliss God has prepared for us.

Another problem is the abuse of drugs in order to “improve” your mind or body. One worrisome example is the abuse of ADHD medication among young adults to improve concentration on schoolwork. Other drugs might be abused for weight loss, bodybuilding, or to suppress normal (healthy, functional) sadness or anxiety.

One might argue that drugs used in this way are merely “performance enhancers,” and help us to “do our best,” or “live up to our potential,” though I doubt that they actually have the long-term benefits one might imagine.

Weight loss or bodybuilding can be seen as a sort of false god, self-worship, or a cult of body worship.

Drugs to enhance attention or concentration may serve as a substitute for self-control, whereas a disciplined approach to life, without the drugs, would yield enormous benefits in all areas, including the spiritual.

Drugs to suppress unhappy moods (sadness, anxiety) may prevent us from examining real problems in our lives, solving the problems that we can, and overcoming the difficulties that we cannot eliminate. “Happyness” is the false god here.

Note, however, that I would not rule out all attention, anxiety, and depression medications. Physical factors (such as inherited neurological or biochemical traits, child development issues, traumatic stress, or traumatic brain injury) do affect the mind, and may lead to debilitating executive dysfuntion, anxiety, or depression, and the right prescription drugs can be a great help. Physicians should prescribe drugs responsibly, and only when they are needed.
 
Corki said:
No, it’s not. And while I support efforts to curb actual drug use, lumping tobacco alcohol and caffeine in with illicit drugs does more harm than good. It trivializes the concept and costs the effort credibility.
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I was gonna say… Our local seminary is outfitted with ash trays outside the dorms. I certainly would hope no one was insinuating tobacco was “evil!”
 
The first thing any addict does is to defend, minimize and trivialize his drug of choice.

The lungs were not made to inhale smoke. The liver was not made to break down alcohol as it taxes the liver so much that being drunk is a side effect of the liver overload and damage.

Caffeine is not any better as the dose must be raised to achieve the same desired efffect and people are slaves to their caffeine.

An addict always defends their drug of choice and rationalizes it often in militant fashion.

Other than prescribed drugs under the supervision of a qualified physician nicotine, caffeine and alcohol are drugs of abuse. It’s just that with so many abusing these drugs it has become socially and culturally acceptable. But the lungs, liver and brain don’t know this!

But we are all sinners and sin is sin and I’m not any better than anyone who smokes, drinks or consumes caffeine. I pray for those held in bondage to these ‘innocent’ addictions; trips at 3 AM to the gas station for smokes, the coughing, the MONEY and those who drink because they have to or just because it makes them feel good and those unable to start the day without their coffee.

But to call any of these three innocuous is incorrect.
 
Brian123456 said:
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The lungs were not made to inhale smoke. The liver was not made to break down alcohol as it taxes the liver so much that being drunk is a side effect of the liver overload and damage.

Caffeine is not any better as the dose must be raised to achieve the same desired efffect and people are slaves to their caffeine. …
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I get it, you don’t smoke, drink or drink coffee. I do, excessively at times. But I forgive your zealotry anyway.
 
PaleoConCatlick said:
Tobacco is almost obsolete among young kids.

Most are also not smoking weed in an unhealthy way. They use vaporizers which don’t give you lung cancer.

What people need to watch out for are PRESCRIPTION drugs. One in every four American women is addicted. They are legal.
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Your first statement appears untrue. It depends on what you mean by “young kids”. While tobacco use is declining in teens there are still significant numbers of teen smokers, and chewers(in rural areas) The preteen set never used tobacco in large numbers.

The most popular method of smoking marijuana among youth is in a blunt(cigar emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana or a mixture of tobacco and marijuana). Marijuana vaporization requires a bulky piece of equipment, so it is obviously not being used in public much. Vaporization cannot be declared “healthy” as this method of ingestion has not been around long enough for epidemiological study. Plus your statement ignores the negative health side effects of the THC itself.

Your last statement does highlight an often overlooked problem, and it is not just women. They are giving addictive drugs to children. In the 70s, most forms of prescription amphetamines(slang: speed) were banned as being too dangerous for adults. One of them(dexedrine,ie, dextroamphetamine) has reappeared as an ADD/ADHD “treatment” for children. The commercial name for this is Adderall. Parents who are giving their child Adderall are giving them speed. It is a highly addictive sister drug of meth and we all know the hideous health consequences of meth.

I won’t even get started on the SSRI (selective seratonin re-uptake inhibitors) drugs except to say that most school shooters have been on SSRI drugs. We pretty much did not have school massacres before the advent of this type of drug.
 
Brian123456 said:
Caffeine is not any better as the dose must be raised to achieve the same desired efffect and people are slaves to their caffeine.

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Caffeine does not seem to have a high tolerance effect at least for me. I have been drinking coffee for years, so by your criteria I would be having around 2 quarts of coffee per day by now, whereas I have stuck with approximately the same 12 oz dose in the morning for 20 or more years. That’s not to say caffeine is totally benign. It can cause evil things like…overposting. 😃
 
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