Drug Rehab

Circles of Friends that Take Drugs

Drug use amongst friends creates a difficult scenario - if one of you wants to either have a break or quit taking drugs altogether, rotating in the same social circles can make action on your decision very hard.

Talking about it with your friends, unless you know they will be supportive, is often a waste of time, as humour, and joking amongst friends will often lead to a "God we're silly for even contemplating stopping" decision.

You can try a number of positive steps:

• Be selective of when you hang around your friends - meals at restaurants, watching sports, social drinks out at bars etc. are environments where drug taking is less likely to occur
• Find someone in your friendship group with a similar stance to you and 'buddy-up' with them, not to turn against your friends, but to have safety and strength in numbers if drug taking does become an easy option. You will then have someone you can do other things with.
• Most of us have more than one circle of friends - try spending more time with the friends that do not take drugs. Yes, it will always feel great when you do go back to your original group of friends to 'get on it', but at least you are limiting your intake.
• Experiment with alternatives - things such as organic herbs (www.happyhighherbs.com) can give you the same highs that illegal drugs would, without the come-down's or extreme negative effects on your body. Plus - they're so much cheaper!
• Depending on your age, another effective technique is to take the stance that 'it's time to grow up'. Teens may find this harder because it is a prime time of experimentation in life, but those approaching mid-20's or 30's+ should be starting to think "Ok, I've had my fine, time to ditch the habit and move on with the finer things in life". The longer you leave it, the less of a life you will have!

Extreme measures such as cutting yourself off from friends or moving state are often less viable options, and more likely to increase the chances of depression. Friends are an excellent support mechanism, and often they will show concern if you express your views in a polite, non-condescending tone.

I have a good friend that is in a relationship with a former school friend of mine. Whilst she used to be accepting of drug taking and often took drugs herself, she has now done a complete flip, and is condescending of all her friends. It's great that she is not supportive of it, but her extremely firm stance somewhat distances her from the rest of the group, to the point that she's unlikely to 'draw out' others that might be contemplating a move away from drug taking because she is so removed from the feelings of the group.

Whilst a group of friends that are into drug taking can lead you a-stray, they can often be your best support mechanism for collectively moving on.

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Drug Rehab Centres in Australia

Millions of dollars are being spent by the government in an attempt to crack down on the use and distribution of illegal substances. However, little support is offered in Australia by the way of drug rehabilitation centers.

A few years ago a close friend of mine reached a point where her crystal meth use became well beyond an addiction. Amongst other things she:

• thought her entire house was bugged
• accused me and other friends of spying on her
• was convinced I was an undercover policeman
• thought someone had buried $200,000 in cash in her back yard
• was thousands of dollars in debt to finance companies and various people

Am I for real? Yes. What was once a beautiful intelligent, fit young lady, was now someone in terrible need of help. This story may ring true for some readers.

Providing assistance to such a person speaking from first-hand experience, is near-on impossible. It requires professionals, and even then getting a message through to someone who really does live in their own world can be tough at times.

In working with her family and friends to help her out, our first port of call was to see what drug rehab centres existed in Australia. A quick search on Google for 'drug rehab australia' yielded next to no results. Is Australia completely ignorant of such problems?

Seeing Ben Cousins have to travel to a drug rehab centre in Malibu California is perhaps testament to this. Certainly drug rehab is not inexpensive, but the lack of support throughout Australia is somewhat terrifying. How is a family meant to cope with the revelation that their daughter is addicted to ice? How are they going to help her? What support mechanisms are there in place? In Australia, very little.

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Drug Rehab Issues & Dangers

Having seen many friends fall victim to the addictive nature of a range of drugs I thought an insider's, and a lucky person's, opinion would be valid to assist those themselves looking for drug rehab solutions, or for their friends and families.

In a time when football players in Western Australia such as Ben Cousins are being taunted for their crystal meth addictions, renowned celebrities such as Chris Mainwaring are passing from ecstacy overdoses, and children as young as 11 are taking highly dangerous substances at school, the role of government and society to protect the next generation becomes increasing important. Drug rehab centres in Australia and worldwide are becoming increasingly popular, and very much the 'in thing' with celebrities in the United States. But how can we prevent ourselves, our family, our friends, from reaching such a devastating stage?

This objective of this blog is to increase awareness of the pressures teenagers and young adults are facing in relation to a wide variety of substance abuses, coming from a young adult who has been lucky enough to escape drug addiction and the dangers of being associated with the selfish end of the community that makes a living from ruining society for the next generation.

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