Take a look at the REVIEWS:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112461/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/682745.The_Basketball_Diaries
TASK: Do an internet reseach on this topic:
TALKING ACTIVITY:
- Give a short plot outline of the movie The Basketball Diaries. What is the reason that this gifted young man becomes addicted to drugs and destroys his whole life? Which other dependencies do you know?
- As a senior student at our school you try to warn the younger students from taking drugs. Also tell them which kinds of drugs you know - that they can take care when they are in discos that nothing dangerous is put into their drinks. Which role does peer-pressure play? Which advice can you give?
- In your opinion, what can be done at our school to prevent young people from smoking and drinking? Which measures are suitable, which are not?
WRITING TASK:
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ReplyDeleteThere are many kinds of drugs and each of them are taken by people all over the world. The question: Why do people something like this? The answer: Many men and women have too much working stress, became unemployed, are just separated, don’t have friends or hobbies and they don’t know the scence of life any more. The consequence: They take drugs to feel happier, free from problems and the world seems for a short time wonderful.
But soon they feel sick, tired and sometimes they are aggressive. Also they don’t have appetite after drinking. They don’t have their own body under control and they see ambiguous. Example: A man celebrates with his friends and drinks many glasses of beer. After the party he drives home but on the way he has a bad accident.
When people must take drugs to don’t have withdrawal symptoms, they are addicted. The question: How can people become addicted? The answer: If one person thinks that it’s cool to take a drug and he/she takes the drug sometimes, he/she will recognize he/she needs the drug to live a “normal“ life. The consequence: He/She takes the drug often more to prevent to get withdrawal symptoms. At this point a person is addicted. There is a vicious circle: When the person doesn’t take the drug, he/she can’t live in a normal manner. When the person takes it, she can work, study … but only for a short time because soon the person will be tired and sick and must take the drug again. The person is depended!
But there aren’t only mental, also physical problems are very worrying: If a person smokes every day, he/she gets grey teeth, a lung disease, breathing difficulties … . A person always drinks beer, he/she gets a liver failure, an irregular heart beat and a risk of cancer. Of course there are many other drugs like caffeine, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, opium… . How we all know, drugs can take people in addiction. But also gambling at casinos, playing computer games, social media, over eating, taking medication, doing sports, shopping, money … can take a person into addiction! Some addictions are not as bad as others, of course. It’s a fact that’s not healthy and good for relationships, the job and the hobbies to have anyone of these addictions. Especially drugs make that your life expectancy sinks.
All in all I can say: Everyone has his own life and should do the best of it. One thing what everyone should know: It’s important to not get get into an addiction to have a beautiful life!!
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ReplyDeleteOther names for ecstasy are MDMAE, X or XTC and it is a psychoactive drug. After 20-60 minutes ecstasy was taken, it begin to operate. When you take it you get a drier mouth and your pupils get bigger and you feel sick.
Positive and negative feelings get stronger and inhibitions gets weaker. You want to be with someone. The negative effects are that the undesirable effects gets more and more and the positive effects drop.
If you take ecstasy when you are in trouble you can get a collapse and your heart, kidney and liver get destroyed. You can be afraid of everything and you would be disoriented. You can have permanent troubles with your brain when you take it for a too long time.
Insecurity, sleep disturbances, depletion and psychical dependence. You can take ecstasy with alcohol, coffin, cannabis, speed and hallucinogens but this is also very dangerous.
In just 1/3 of all ecstasy tablets is really ecstasy. You can have ecstasy as small, colourful pills or as while capsules. when you take this drug, it will be 24 hours in your in your blood and in two to four days in your urine. It will be some month in your hairs.
In Austria it is illegal and consumption. Schedule I drugs have no official medical use and are highly addictive. When you have bad memories you can take it because ecstasy would be useful in psychotherapy. It may also have potential for dying patients to help come to terms with their death.
Ecstasy could be used for other mental illness for example depression or drug addiction.
I would not take ecstasy or other drugs because we think it is really stupid to take drugs because it does not make your life better.
Magdalena Urich
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ReplyDeleteMost of us know the term “drug”. In a simple way you can discriminate between a medicine and an addictive drug. There are a few drugs you should know about in order to avoid them.
The most common drug in Austria is obviously alcohol. 28% of the addicts around the world are addicted to daily alcohol consume. The funny thing is, that nearly everybody over the age of 16 drinks alcohol but they do not count as addicted as long as they drink in moderation. The level of alcohol is measurable. Away from a level of 0.5 % you will feel kinda dizzy. Your body won´t punish you for drinking like once a week but you shouldn´t overdo it with any drug
Cocaine, also known as crack, is the second most used drug in the world. Around 24% of all junkies are addicted to cocaine powder. You take it by sniffing it through your nose with a straw or something similar. It´s supposed to take you on a trip but the secondary effects are much worse than a little trip. A steady consume of cocaine will increase your puls rate and narrow your blood vessels.
The third most addiction of the world is gambling. Gamblers are persons who can´t resist taking bets or playing gambling games. Even though it mostly ends up by having troubles with your family or friends, because you spend much more time with gambling than taking care of your social contacts. There are three stages a gambler can reach during his gambling “career”. First one would be the win-stage in which you play, or bet sometimes and get a positive feeling about your following games and you increase the amount of money you play with every time. Second stage is the deprivation-stage in which you start to make your first bigger losses but you claim that you are making a big deal. The time you usually spent with your friends decreases slowly. The last stage would be the distress-stage in which you try to get money from where ever you can to gamble on and get kind of a social disorder. Even you start to think about suicide and stuff.
I think drugs in general aren´t the best way to sort out your problems or anything else. Sure there are some kinds of drugs, like alcohol, which seem legit to drink in moderation. But never ever overdo it with anything, just because other people do it as well and they maybe look cool doing it.
-Leonhard Steiner
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ReplyDeleteThere are many addictions and drugs in the world and today i want to tell you about three of them. Cannabis, Cigarettes and Alcohol this are the most interesting drugs in the world.
Alcohol: In Austria it is a legal drug and you get it at the age of 16 years and the hard drinks at an age of 18 years. Many children are drinking alcohol before they are 16 years. The young children get dependent of the alcohol and the drink more and more alcohol. If you go to a party or something like that all of the teenager drink alcohol and the most of them smoke and if you don‘t do anything like that you get locked out from the group. Many people start to drink when they are at a party or when they go out with friends. A lot of people drink because they maybe have depressions or in the family died a person. When you drink a lot you can‘t control yourself and you lose the balance. In my opinion, you can drink alcohol but not too much!
Cigarettes: A cigarette is a small cylinder of finely cut tobacco leaves rolled in thin paper for smoking. Cigarettes are one of the legal drugs in Austria and you get it in the age of 16 years. I think that’s not good that teenagers get cigarettes so early because there are so many substances that destroy their bodies when they inhalate the smoke of the cigarette. In the drug there are many different types of harming substances that damage your inner organs and a lot of them can cause cancer. If you smoke regularly, you may get lung cancer in some years and when you smoke you usually die one year earlier for every year you smoked.
Cannabis: it is also named marijuana. You can eat it smoke it and you can use it as an oil. You get “high“ from cannabis. When you smoke it the effect starts a few minutes after smoking and hold on up to six hours. It‘s the worlds most used illegal drug.
All drugs are not good for your body and you get addicted from them. In my opinion you only should smoke and drink because that is not so dangerous as the illegal drugs.
By Stephan Techt
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ReplyDeleteWhat are drugs? Why have they become so popular? We all know that younger people are not scared to try them out. Could this lead to a social disaster?
Drugs can be dangerous for our mind; they can take you to another world. Life can be stressful and taking drugs can help you not feeling the stress. If you were under drug influence, you would have dream or just feel good, you feel high. Nevertheless, after all your highpoints you will fall into a hole of darkness.You feel sick and alone, you don´t know what is going on and your problems are getting bigger and bigger. Most people who are addicted to drugs like alcohol or nicotine have social problems. They start to drink and forget the world around them. The problems seem to be far away. There comes a point when you feel free, but after that your problems will come back.
Many people who are already addicted to drugs often can´t get away from it by their own. They believe that they cannot live without it. The only way to stop addiction is a cold turkey. Some people cannot handle the feeling of a cold turkey because they get hurt in a mental way. Their bodies show symptoms of need. Then they need the stuff quickly. In the Film “Basketball Diaries” you can see a boy who is in the situation of a cold Turkey. You can see that he is destroyed, he don´t know what to do to stop the pain.
Alcohol and nicotine are also drugs, but everybody think it´s normal to take them. The problem is that young people can watch older people drinking alcohol and having a lot of fun. For example, you visit a friend and the first question you get asked is “Do you want a beer?” Everybody would say: “Why not.” Drugs like alcohol or nicotine have always been popular in history. Many have always liked a beer after work or when they go out with their friends. Drinking alcohol is common in our society and socially not a problem. It is only a problem if you get addicted to alcohol and drink too much. Then it is not accepted in our society.
Nadine Syen
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ReplyDeleteToday I want to talk about the drug LSD.
LSD is a chemical drug, the effect start after 30-90 minutes, had the prime at 2 – 4 hours and end after 12 hours. The chemist Albert Hofmann invent LSD-25 in the middle of the thirties. In April 1943 in the course of a Resynthetisierung of the substance apparently. Later the drug was fame but than the USA and the European country’s give it to the illegal dependence causing substances.
There are many positive effects zb.: Mood can be boosted and unhoped changed and conflation of the sensation. You are very happy and you think you have the perfect life but only for this time.
But there’s not only positive effects. At the beginning they are often some negative effects, zB. Changed of the body temperature, high pulse rate, extensions of pupil, sickness and circuit problems.
There can be a high feeling, a feeling which everyone wished but there can be a “bad trip” too.
If someone had a “bad trip” this person have psychotic hallucination, in this phase people can be have anxiety, panic and paranoia.
After days or weeks it can be come to mental delusions and “flashbacks”.
The longer LSD is taken the higher becomes the dose. The intensive effects from LSD can lead with longer consumption to changes to be remained of the self-perception and the personality. LSD can release psychiatric illnesses like depressions and schizophrenia or similar illnesses.
Mix using
• LSD and psychotic mushrooms
• LSD and Ecstasy
• LSD and Cannabis
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ReplyDeleteDrugs are bad substances. You can sniff and smoke them, you also can put some liquid like heroin into an injection and inject it into your body. You can get addicted slowly or very fast like with crystal meth. The most drugs are very expensive and illegal. Cigarettes are legal drugs in Austria and they are one of the soft drugs.
The ingredients of cigarettes are lagely nicotine and tobacco. The ‘’opposite’’ of cigarettes can be Heroin because you can sniff, smoke and inject it. It is also called ``Opium``. Heroin changes your whole body and can change your character too. Maybe you can’t sleep for a few days and then you fall asleep for more then two or three days.
Crystal Meth is one of the most dangerous drug for your body because it can destroy you! Even if it’s illegal in Austria, the people around the world take it. And they don’t take it once because if you take it for the first time you can get addicted very fast.
Another ‘’weak’’ drug is the alcohol. Alcohol is one of the most consumed drug into the world. Alcohol would be able to damage your liver or other organs. You can only drink the alcohol but there are so many sorts of alcohol but there are so many sorts of alcohol like Bacardi, Eristoff, Wodka,…Every sort of alcohol has its own percentage. The consequences of alcohol vary from one person to another. Some vomit, others get dizzy, some get a headache, others fell bad or sad.
Marihuana also isn’t as harmful as crystal Meth or heroin! Marihuana is only for chilling down yourself. You can smoke, inhale and eat it.
In my opinion should everybody decide for himself/herself if he/she take drugs like alcohol, cigarettes, heroin, crystal meth and so on…., but I think that illegal drugs like ecstacy or heroin shouldn’t exist.
Drugs
ReplyDeleteAt first I will talk about the film “The Basketball Diaries”. The film is about a young man in a middle school, who don`t like it. He has bad teacher, who often strikes him. The only thing that still makes him happy is basketball, because he is a really good basketball player. But when his friends start to take drugs he gets completely on the wrong path. He leaves his home and then he lives with his friends on the street, where they take drugs every day.
As he almost dies, gives him an old friend a new chance to live a better life without drugs. But he falls back in his bad habits and needs money to buy new drugs. In his worst times he sold his own body for a few of money, until he comes back to his mum to ask her for money. She calls the police and so he could finally defeat his addiction. The book bases on a real story who has a happy end. The boy rehabs and dies in the age of sixty as a well-known author and musician.
In our society a lot of people take drugs to better deal with their problems. In other countries are drugs legal. A really famous drug is marijuana. Marijuana makes you feel silly, relaxed, sleepy and happy or nervous and scared. It quickly becomes addictive and damages your body. And it can make hard to think clearly that`s the reasons why young people shouldn`t take drugs. Maybe older students should be a good example and not teach younger students the handling of drugs. Because drugs can destruct your life.
In my opinion it is ok to drink or smoke one cigarette on a birthday party or other events but each person should know what the best for their own body is and where are their own limits.
Christina Hofer
Drugs
ReplyDeleteWhat are drugs? How do they work? Are they dangerous? These questions are important questions and they must be answered.
Many countries in our World have big problems with drugs. Mostly teens are concerned. They take drugs because of peer pressure or when they have big problems in their families.
In the beginning I want to talk about legal drugs and their effects. An example for a legal drug is alcohol. Many people drink it and enjoy it. It is a party “drug”. I think it is okay to drink alcohol on parties and with friends, but you shouldn´t overdose it. Alcohol can be dangerous when you drink too much. You can get dependent and it can destroy your body. Cigarettes are also legal and they can also destroy your body!
Now I will talk about illegal drugs. Drugs are very dangerous you can get hallucinations and you can´t control your body when you take them. Examples for illegal drugs are ecstasy, heroin, marihuana and many more. You can smoke, sniff, inhale or take it as a pill.
Now I will answer some questions. Drugs are amphetamines when you take them you get lucky and you think that you don’t have problems. But when you wake up from your trip you get fucked up and your life goes down the stream. Drugs are really dangerous they destroy your body and you can get addicted. When you take drugs you don’t have much money and it can destroy your family. When you haven´t some money you have to live on the street. Some people are so dependent that they sell their own bodies.
All in all drugs aren´t health for your body and you should leave your fingers of it. Each person should know himself what is good for his body and where are the own limits.
-Theresa Paar
Addictions
ReplyDeleteAddictions are mostly terrible habits. We can be addicted in the different ways; there are good ways and bad ways.
Good ways I will mention first. They are probably music or drugs like weed to kill pain. Bad ways are bad drugs like heroin, cocaine, cigarettes and alcohol.
So let’s talk about the bad drugs. On most of the bad drugs you get addicted very fast, as example heroin once you take it you are addicted. Heroin is the one of the most dangerous drugs. You can inhale, inject, or sniff it. Cocaine is dangerous too; it also is one of the common party drugs. Party drugs are dangerous but extremely popular. Because of their strong highs that hold also hold on for a long time. Like speed you can take at 12am and you’re still high and hyperactive at 6am.
Light dope like pot; cigarettes or alcohol. Most people take and talk about it as if it would be an everyday normal. Sure alcohol is legal and cigarettes too but they also do this with pot that is illegal. Even in music weed took a quite normal place. All the time artist talk about highs and rides they mostly talk about pot. Way more dangerous than pot are cigarettes they kill everything inside you expendably your lungs, anyways mostly everyone smokes. Some people call them slow killers.
Alcohol is the most common drug. Who doesn’t drink beer or wine or liquor? Everyone does, but alcohol can destroy your whole life. Lots of Austrians are alcohol addicts, they drown out their emotions in alcohol the drink till’ they stop feel their problems. Alcohol isn’t like cigarettes or heroin you won’t get addicted when you drink one tow beer every week. Even when you drink it every day it doesn’t mean that you are addicted. But when you start drinking every day in the morning because you are worried you are addicted. Most of the addicted are man. Who knows why but probably because they have such a high society pressure. So when they can’t deal with it anymore they start to drink.
We all know that drugs are bad in anyways but I think it’s human to be addicted to something. Nevertheless keep your hands off from the bad stuff and when you feel down, visit your weed friend and smoke some pot. It will deffinatly help you and makes you happy. But honestly now it’s probaply better when you talk about your problems than taking drugs.
Anna-Lisa Pirker
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ReplyDeleteAddictions are mostly very horrible and very dangerous. There are a lot of different drugs you can get addicted to.In General there are two types of drugs,illegal and legal drugs.
At first I would like to write about legal drugs,they are as dangerous as illegal drugs.Most people do not realise that you can also destroy your live with legal drugs,if you can not controlle the consume.
With illegal drugs you can destroy your body swifter as with legal drugs, so they are not legal.Drugs wich are illegal in Austria like Heroin and Cokain have a very high by-effect for example headache and get sick.
One oft he most widespread legal drug is alcohol. A lot of people in Austria drink alcohol „just for fun“. The other ones drink because they think they can solve their problems. But that does not work so,they make only more troubles with alcohol because in the most causes they can not handle the consume so they get dependet.
On the other hand you have a few positive effects of drugs like you can use them in the medizin for pain killers. An other positive aspekt is that you can make operatins without pain and thats also easier for the doctors that the patient are calmer at the operation.
A very big flash point is when you are on a party,you have tob e careful because some one could put some dangerous stuff in your drink,so that your body is out of controll and you can not remeber what happend last night.
Overall drugs can be usefull for medicine but they have a very big negative side.I think everyone should decide if he wants to take drugs by him self.
And most importantly ,never let your decision get influenced by other people.
Zacharias Moosbrugger
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ReplyDeleteThis is a short text about drugs and the consequences of taking drugs.
There are two types of drugs - legal and illegal drugs. Both of them are dangerous and can lead to addiction. Legal drugs are alcohol, nicotine and coffee. LSD, weed and cocaine are illegal. Otherwise in other countries, for example Holland, weed is legal. In Austria there was an referendum about the legalisation of Weed. But the majority was against the legalization.
Weed alias Marihuana is a drug which help to calm down and to be happy. Weed can be eaten and smoked but the majority smoke it. When you use weed you get high. “High” is the slang-word for the indication of drugs. By using weed the indication is relaxing. You get tired, quiet and slow. So, your reactivity go badly. This is one of the reasons, why you shouldn’t drive with the car. On the one hand weed is bad for your health. You get impure skin and you cannot sleep without using weed not anymore. On the other hand when you take weed against pain it can help you, but only when the doctor guess that you should take it. When you are addicted to Weed you may can get out of the addiction when you visit help groups.
Alcohol is a legal drug, but it is also very dangerous. When you drink alcohol you feel good, happy and brave but sometimes people get aggressive. Alcohol has various types of indication. Some people feel happy and good, other bad und unlucky or aggressive. When you get aggressive you should not drink alcohol because you can hurt someone. You also can’t drive when you are drunk. When you drive with the car and you have drunk alcohol you can’t drive straight ahead and make curves, this is very dangerous, because when a car appears you crash into it. Against an alcohol addiction you have to make a deprivation but this is very hard. However, there is always a way out of the problem!
My opinion is that you shouldn’t take drugs, because it’s not good for your health and can destroy your live.
Leonie Hödl
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ReplyDeleteTaking drugs is very important for the most young people at the time. They take it every time and that is not good for their body but they often don`t want to know it. Addictions is not taking only drugs. Often they have problems with eating or playing a computergame. Also alcohol and nicotine are very famous drugs.
Last week we watched the film Basketball Diaries. In the film there are five very good basketballs which win every match. They have one problem. All five take many drugs in their free time to get the motivation for playing basketball. Also they oft rob the players from the other team to get money to pay all the drugs. One day the teacher saw them and he expelled them from school. So they get no money to pay all their drug so the robbed an old lady and stole cars. A few days later they wanted to rob a supermarket but one of them had been caught by the police. At the and only one of them gave up taking drugs and at the age of 17 he wrote his first book.
This story tells us that we should not take drugs because drugs destroy our life and when we take too much of it we get into a addiction. Many people have a problem with drinking alcohol. They often drink too much of it and so they oft must get into the hospital. We have to help these people to get away from their addiction.
Also a big problem these days is smoking. Many people do it because they think that they are cool when they smoke but often they don`t know what they do with their body. Often many teenager smoke with the age of 13-15. My question where get they the cigarettes? They often have get them from older people. You can buy cigarettes in Austria at the age of 16 but I think that that is too young to smoke. In my Opinion Cigarettes should be allowed at the age of 18.
At the and I want to say taking drugs or other addictive drugs are not good for your body and your life. We should do the best with our life not doing something nonsense.
Jan Billek
Addictions and Drugs
ReplyDeleteUsing drugs gets more often to physical instable people. They often start smoking or drinking and then it gets daily. When you have to do it every day you might have an addiction. You can have all kinds of addictions.
Some people have an addiction to fat. They always eat fast food or fat food. Mostly of their time they sit in the Mc Donald’s or in Burger King.
Although you also can have an addiction to sports. Sport addicted people go to the gym every day and spend their whole free time in there. They also often use steroids to gain their stamina.
But there are also very often bad drugs. So many people pump this stuff in their body and don’t recognise what damage they take from this.
Cocaine is one of the most dangerous drugs. You get very hyperactive and overestimate yourself. The effect stays around 30-60 minutes. Cocaine destroys your blood circulation and your heart and your blood pressure goes in the high and you are going to get problems.
Heroin is the next drug I want to write about. The effects from heroin are that you get rid of your fears and get in a warm and good feeling. Consummates from heroin talk about beautiful and scary pictures that appear in their heads. The bad things from heroin are that you get confused and your breath frequency can get as low as 3-4 breaths per minute.
You probably can say that drugs one of the biggest problems from our world. It starts as fun to young people and then it gets more and more serious. When you are addicted to a drug, you are going to ruin your life pretty sure. Drug addictions are very expensive. When you are at the point when you sit next to the street as a junkie who lost his house. You probably think that drugs aren’t funny. So never use drugs or overdo it with alcohol or nicotine because this is nothing more than a legal drug.
Rohrmoser Stefan
Drugs and other addictions: A new dangerous hobby for young People!
ReplyDeleteDrugs-The Death sentence for the life of many young people. Peer pressure, bad grades in school and many other factors can be the trigger for people who start to take drugs. But what do people expect when they take drugs? What are the consequences? And do these people know them?
Let’s start with the legal drugs. Legal drugs are Alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine. You can buy these legal drugs legal in Austria if you are 16 or older. Legal drugs are kind of as dangerous as illegal drugs. You can get alcohol easily on every party. Alcohol can destroy your leaver and it can cause cancer. Caffeine makes your heart pumping very fast and you easily get addicted to it. Smoking can kill your kidney and you have a higher risk to get cancer and other dangerous illnesses. So legal drugs aren’t harmless only because they are lega!
Next we have the illegal drugs. Especially the young people get easy addicted to them. Illegal drugs are for example: Weed, LSD, cocaine, heroine and crystal meth. Illegal drugs can get smoked, sniffed or injected by a needle. It doesn’t matter how you take them they will destroy your body and if you won’t stop they’ll destroy your whole life. People who are addicted to drugs can get hard stops, organ failure, and many other body damaging symptoms over a long time.
But not only drugs can make you get addicted. Some people are addicted to Video games, sex, films, series…No addiction is good if you are addicted you need to get help quickly before it’s too late. The young people today have many dangerous things to fight against. If you are in this age don’t start to take drugs or alcohol only because everyone else is doing it. Don’t let the peer pressure get control over your body. Drugs can destroy your whole life for ever!!
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ReplyDeleteJim Carroll is a high school basketball player. , Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his mind. A best friend who is dying of leukemia, a coach who takes unacceptable liberties with the boys on his team, teenage sexual angst, and an unhealthy appetite for heroin- all these things keep Jim from his way to be a basketball star.
He falls into the dark world of crime and drugs. Once his mother expelled him out of the house, he goes into the streets of New York. So he can’t go home and his only escape from the reality oft he street is heroin, for which he steals, robs and prostitutes himself. Jim's situation becomes worse. It looks like he will never get out from his drug addiction.
Only with the help of Reggie, an older neighborhood friend with whom Jim "picked up a game" now and then, is he able to begin the long journey back to sanity.
In our society, many young people are dependent on different behavior or substances. Nearly everybody has already tried to take drugs or to smoke illegal substances – and some of them are addicted to these now. They often forget to thing about the effects of this behavior.
Many young people try to sniff snuff because it is cool. Maybe they use drugs like Cannabis because of group pressure and they want to feel good and free for one single moment. But often people get addicted to such things, or go further and consume Speed, Ecstasy or Heroin. They would steal and even kill, just to get enough money to pay for these substances.
But there are also many other dangerous dependencies we must not forget. For example, lot´s of children play computer games or watch TV many hours a day, and they are doing this over years. Often they lose their whole friends, because the computer is their new best friend, and they also don´t want to go out of the house, into the healthy fresh air to play anymore.
What are the reasons for behavior, leading to dependency? Often people have problems with their job, and don´t know another way than alcohol or drugs. Young people often use this because of group pressure, or social problems like bullying. Without help, no person in dependency can stop this. Whenever we know a person with problems like this , we shouldn‘t lose time, and help.
In my opinion to stop people from drinking and smoking we should give people the possibility for more free time activities, especially sports.
Addictions and Drugs
ReplyDeleteIn nowadays drugs and substance causing addiction are playing a very big part for youngsters.
Especially the young people can get in a bad company and then they often do bad things for himself (drinking or take drugs), because they do it concerning pressure, as in the film basketball diaries when Jim Carrol have at his first time cocaine consumption.
That is very often a reason to get in an addiction and when you are hooked art, your “friends” let you alone in your intoxication and than you are taking more and more drugs to have a good feeling in your bad live, you guess that nothing is possible without the drug.
But it isn`t barely the physical it is major the mental illness.
When somebody is become a junkie he destroy his life and the life from other people for example a teenager (Jim) that from his mother.
Alcohol is a very good example. Alcohol is the farthest common drug in Austria. It`s legal and it is allowed at the age of sixteen to consume alcoholic beverages and almost all take this drug.
Some of the effects are that you become a very good feeling, it makes you cheerful but when you drink too much all movements are slowly, straining and in an extreme case it could be that you die.
Alcohol have destroy lots of families and that’s also a factor why lots of married couple are singled.
Often good people were ruined, because alcoholism or other drugs destroy their life. I think it is very pity when such a thing happens.
Simon Pamminger
Addiction
ReplyDeleteWhat is when you can’t stop with taking drugs? What is when you are addicted to this?
The Addiction is a very dangerous matter, it is so dangerous because when you take once an drug, it makes you an so good feeling, that you will do it again. And suddenly your desire for drugs or other thing is so big that you can’t think on other thinks. Addiction is very sneaky because it feel good but mostly it is very badly for your body. Actually you can depend on all, even chocolate.
Every addiction has its own side effects. I will rite about of two examples of addiction, alcohol and shopping dependence.
Alcoholism is a real disease. Alcohol is an legal drug in Austria. In Austria you are aloud to consume alcohol of the age of sixteen. Alcohol Addiction can damage organs and body systems like the liver, the Nervous system, the Heart or the brain. Alcohol often causes social consequences on a person’s life. The recovery process for alcoholism takes a long time. There is not a quick fix. Many people say that alcohol addiction is never cured. I believe that alcohol consume is ok when you don’t drink to much for example one glas whine a week is rally ok. You are in alcoholism when you must drink alcohol in the morning or you do not feel good without alcohol.
Shopping dependence is a really serious matter because when you buy too much, your money you need for the whole month is really quickly away. When you go shopping and on your shopping list stands for example five things an you come home with an whole LKW than you have an big problem. This kind of addiction is a really painful for your pocket. People whose addicted to go shopping are in foreseeable future poor.
I believe that if you come early enough on that one has a problem kan this will be fixed quickly.
Theresa Ritzinger
Drugs
ReplyDeleteToday I talk about drugs and their consequences. The drugs I talk about are GHB and Cannabis.
GHB is also named as liquid ecstasy and it is a drug which by higher dosages act stunned and also abuse as K.O drops. The private production is very penal because liquid ecstasy is illegal in Austria and many other countries.
GHB is a salty, colorless and odorless liquid. Liquid ecstasy affects the mood and so the friendliness grows. It can get to coordination disorders, headache or nausea. By overdosage it can get to unconsciousness, heartstill and film torn. The effect can get inserting in 5 till 10 minutes.
The dependency potential from GHB is very high.
Liquid ecstasy is also used as K.O drops to get unconscious, often in connection with theft or rape and it is only short searchable in the body.
Bodybuilder take GHB to suppress the effect from steroids. It also promote the distribution from growth hormones which helps the muscles to grow faster.
In the medicine it is taken as a narcotics. Other areas of application were searched, but they were depraved because of the side effects.
Cannabis is also called marijuana and hanf and the worlds most used illegal drug. You can smoke it or eat it. When you take it you get high. The effect starts a few minutes after you smoke it and hold on up to six hours.
In my opinion, drugs are very dangerous and I would never take some drugs.
Lauren Mayer
The first question is what is a drug and where they come from:
ReplyDeleteA drug is any chemical which affects how your body works, or how you behave or feel. Some drugs come from plants and others are made in laboratories. The process of making drugs and what goes into them varies from place to place. This makes it very difficult to be sure of what you are actually getting. Street drugs are often mixed with impurities to make them go further, for example: cannabis mixed with other herbs, cocaine and amphetamines mixed with baking powder, anaesthetics, caffeine and heroin mixed with talc.
Now I tell more about Marijuana and LSD:
Marijuana is the most comonly abused illicit drug in the United States. It is normally smoked as a joint or in a pipe and can also be smoked as a blunt. Marijuana can be mixed with food, brewed as tea or used in the form of hash oil. There is no simple answer to what the marijuana high is like, as this varies for each individual.
This dry mix of green and brown mixed flowers, seeds, stems and leaves comes from the hemp plant called Cannabis sativa.Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the main active chemical in the plant.
Although it is illegal in most states, marijuana may be used in medical programs in some states. Patients may have acess to the drug for medical purposes only. This program is used to help those with serious conditions untreated by other medications.
Lysergic acid diethylamide, known as LSD, is one of the most powerful hallucinogens out there. It is a drug of extreme unpredictability, and is banned for use in the United States, even though it was once used as a psychiatric drug, and has been used in secret government tests. It is still produced for research, in small amounts, and some people use it as part of meditation. LSD is most often taken in tablet form. It can also be found on blotter paper or in thin gelatin form.
Addictions
ReplyDeleteMy reason to write this article is because many teenagers or even kids get addicted to drugs at a low age. I want the teenagers to think about how dangerous they are or to inform parents how to handle with an addicted child.
There are many drugs out there. Some are bad for you and your body and some are even worse. There are legal drugs like alcohol and nicotine, which have no bad causes for you in the present. In the future, you can get a liver cirrhosis from excessive alcohol intake and e.g. COPD or lung cancer from smoking nicotine. You can get them in every shop across the country and that’s why so many teenagers use it.
Illegal drugs like MDMA, Cocaine or Crystal Meth are a deal worse for your body than the legal ones. When you use it once, the drug may let you go, but when you take it twice, you surely get addicted to it. Some drugs act as sleeping pills, some give you an exciting feeling in the moment. Your brain acts crazy for some hours and when this time is over, your body runs out of control. You think that you need the drug because otherwise everything is not good.
What I also want to write about is a category of dependencies many people underrate. Medications are also highly stimulating drugs which can also change your mood in the right dosage. Other underestimated dependencies are mobile phone addiction or computer addiction. When you go to the casino, you may develop a gambling habit. When you are addicted to gambling, you probably deploy your clothes or your house because you think you are going to win in the next round.
The problem with drugs - especially with the illegal ones - is, that you get addicted to them very easily. So don’t take drugs teenagers!
GHB
ReplyDeleteThere are many other drugs in our society but today I’ll talk a little bit about the drug GHB and their consequences.
GHB is a party drug and also called liquid Ecstasy. In Germany it was legal until 2002.
If someone take this drug, he gets a high. Desirable effects are improved sentiments, muscle relaxation and painkilling. Undesirable effects are sickness, hunger and circulation problems. A higher dose of GHB works as a sleep-inducing drug.
Since 2004 GHB is also known as the rape drug or k.o.-drops. K.o.-drops are mostly used by men to stun woman at discos and rape or steal from them. If it’s used as a k.-o.-drop, it will get you into sleeping in like 15 to 30 minutes. If the dose is too high your memories will be incomplete after the sleep you wake up. K.o drops in general have a pretty intensive taste, but if it´s mixed into beef and small citrus fruits the taste of the drops doesn’t get through. So it´s pretty dangerous, because if you take those pills by accident, mixed into your meal or something, you don´t recognize it right away.
In the 1980´s a lot of athletes used the substance as a doping substance, because they said they would get a better sleep by taking this drug.
In Italy it`s even a legal medical drug. You can buy it in any pharmacy but you need a prescription by a licensed doctor.
GHB is a dangerous for getting addicted to. Even after one single trip the danger of wanting another shot is pretty high. The deprivation is very complicated because the symptoms are pretty intense, like sweating, muscle tremor, diarrhea or sickness. So it takes very long to get off the addiction. A cold turkey isn´t a good idea because it can cause aggressively and sleepless nights.
In my opinion, drugs are very dangerous and I will never take one off them.
Addictions
ReplyDeleteThere are many different addictions. You can make a difference between legal and illegal addictions. What connects all addictions is, that when you don’t take them or when you don’t carry out your addiction, you have some withdrawals what make you crazy.
The most important addiction of the world is alcohol. Almost every person over 16 takes alcohol when they make party. It is interesting that the society doesn’t welcome it if you don’t drink any alcohol, but if you drink too much alcohol the society also doesn’t like it. Most of the alcohol junkies have got big problems. The majority of them haven’t got any girlfriend, no job, or they have to get along with a bereavement.
Some people are also addicted to computer games. They always think about them, so they can´t do anything other without thinking about computer games. Most of the sequelae don’t belong to the playing, they are indirect implications like obesity, because they do no sport. Another bad thing about playing computer games is that they are very expensive. One game costs up to 100 euros. A gaming PC costs also 500 euros more than a normal computer. Most of the people who play computer games escape into the virtual world because they don’t have any friends in reality.
All addictions have got their reason. Sometimes you get an addiction because of a bereavement, sometimes it is because you have no friends. You have to make sure that you handle with alcohol carefully. It is easy do get an addiction, but it is hard to get away from it!
Moritz Lackner
Addictions
ReplyDeleteNowadays addictions are an important topic, also in our school. Drugs, gambling and a lot of other dangerous things make you addicted. At first you have no money, you are lost your family and your whole life will get break down. At this following text you can get some information about addictions.
At first I’ll tell you something about legal Drugs. Legal drugs can be as dangerous as illegal drugs, because you can buy them in every second store. In Austria alcohol, nicotine and medications are the legal drugs. When you are 16 you are allowed to buy beer, wine, and cigarettes. At 18 you are allowed to buy booze and so on.
There are a lot illegal drugs like marihuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and other similar things. For example marihuana, also named cannabis or dope, is a dried plant. You can smoke it or also eat it. When you take it, you get dopy and you take your life easy, too easy. If you take that a few times, you can get addicted to it and your soul and your body would get slow. Cocaine is a drug of the rich people. You can sniffing it into your nose and then you feel like superman. But there is a danger, you can get addicted of it after the first time.
Other addictions can be gambling, being a workaholics and so on. Gambling is and could be dangerous for your life, because those people are sitting in front of the PC, Smartphone or television the whole day. Such people don’t go to school or work, have no friends and their mums make all for them. So their life isn’t very spectacular and they get problems to speak or do something with other people.
All in all, I think that drugs are a big problem and the people know to little about their effect and their dangers. There are so many people who are addicted to drugs and nobody helps these people. Even at school, children should be told about drugs and other dangerous addictions
Manuel Fraiß
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ReplyDeleteThese days we need to manage lots of problems. Especially in youth many problems appear just around the corner. But which way out is the right? Drugs? Once addicted to drugs or alcohol, the affected person gets into a despairing situation.
Firstly, it has to be mentioned that there are legal and illegal drugs you can get addicted to. Alcohol and nicotine are legalized in Austria. But many others like LSD, Crystal Meth, Cocaine ect. are illegal. Consuming these drugs makes you a criminal and helps you getting to a social abyss. At the end people are often disliked.
Although drugs often destroy their whole lives, many people take them. But what is the reason for such a stupid act? Well, the thought is that taking drugs is their way out of their present problems like family issues or stress situations in school because of exams they need to pass. Also peer pressure is a reason for the start of an addiction. You need to take a hard drug only one time and the huge trouble are just about to start. You can hardly stop an addiction again and it’s a deteriorating situation.
Alcohol is a big problem in our community. It makes you feel good but after drinking alcohol daily it can end in addiction. Also nicotine can have the same bad effects after consuming too much. The problem is that most people start smoking at young ages between 14-16 and can’t stop any more.
Compared to nicotine, crystal meth is your “command to death”. It contains chemical substances that destroy your body very fast. And it’s illegal, but you can get it without any problems, what is the main problem. Actually, you can get every drug easily, and most of them make you feel happy first, before the problems start.
Finally, drugs are not recommendable. They’re often very expensive and can split up your family. Many illnesses come along with drugs. For instance, cancer chronical illnesses and mental addictions appear. Sometimes people even die after taking drugs the first time. But if you want to lose your job, they’re first choice. But there is one meaningful use for some kinds of drugs: medicine. But only prescribed by a doctor.
Getting away from addictions is very hard. But in my opinion affected persons should try to. And for all others: Don’t even start taking these things.
Life’s worth it!
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By Christoph Hasenörl
Addictions and problem behaviors
ReplyDeleteThese days we need to manage lots of problems. Especially in youth many problems appear just around the corner. But which way out is the right? Drugs? Once addicted to drugs or alcohol, the affected person gets into a despairing situation.
Firstly, it has to be mentioned that there are legal and illegal drugs you can get addicted to. Alcohol and nicotine are legalized in Austria. But many others like LSD, Crystal Meth, Cocaine ect. are illegal. Consuming these drugs makes you a criminal and helps you getting to a social abyss. At the end people are often disliked.
Although drugs often destroy their whole lives, many people take them. But what is the reason for such a stupid act? Well, the thought is that taking drugs is their way out of their present problems like family issues or stress situations in school because of exams they need to pass. Also peer pressure is a reason for the start of an addiction. You need to take a hard drug only one time and the huge trouble are just about to start. You can hardly stop an addiction again and it’s a deteriorating situation.
Alcohol is a big problem in our community. It makes you feel good but after drinking alcohol daily it can end in addiction. Also nicotine can have the same bad effects after consuming too much. The problem is that most people start smoking at young ages between 14-16 and can’t stop any more.
Compared to nicotine, crystal meth is your “command to death”. It contains chemical substances that destroy your body very fast. And it’s illegal, but you can get it without any problems, what is the main problem. Actually, you can get every drug easily, and most of them make you feel happy first, before the problems start.
Finally, drugs are not recommendable. They’re often very expensive and can split up your family. Many illnesses come along with drugs. For instance, cancer chronical illnesses and mental addictions appear. Sometimes people even die after taking drugs the first time. But if you want to lose your job, they’re first choice. But there is one meaningful use for some kinds of drugs: medicine. But only prescribed by a doctor.
Getting away from addictions is very hard. But in my opinion affected persons should try to. And for all others: Don’t even start taking these things.
Life’s worth it!
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By Christoph Hasenörl
When someone talks about addiction, you think at once about drugs and cigarettes. But there are a lot of different types of addiction, for example, alcohol, games of chance, shopping and more.
ReplyDeleteIn our generation it is very cool when people smoke. The stupid thing is that teenagers at an age of 16 can also start smoking.
Every day in the morning you can see students smoking before the lessons start. Cigarettes have a lot of drawbacks, I think there is no benefit. There are some reasons why you never should start smoking. One thing is that your clothes, car, house stinks of cigarette smoke. The other aspect is that you can get cancer and this is one of the worst diseases you can have, because the risk that you will die is very high. Another fact is that it is very hard to stop smoking forever, but it is easier than stop taking drugs.
Drugs for example cocaine, cannabis, heroin, opium are unfortunately a lot worse than nicotine in cigarettes.
You can die faster and easier by taking drugs. It can make you happy and strong but only for a few moments and then the good feeling is over. There are also few people, who say that they would to stop, but from these few people there are only three or five who really stop, because the withdrawals are so hard to pass.
All in all, taking drugs are no way out of a bad situation. In the text there are some important reasons, why you should never start taking drugs or smoking cigarettes and I hope that people will rethink these things before it is too late.
By Cornelia Gregory
Addiction
ReplyDeleteAddiction can kill you
People with an addiction, don’t have any control over the amount they are using, taking or doing. The Addiction can reach a point which is harmful for the person. You can be addicted to several things like sex, drugs, alcohol, work, tobacco, playing computer games and so on. But how can you escape from the cage “addiction”?
First, who can become addicted to something? Almost everybody! Risk factors are peer pressure, genetic, mental illness, loneliness, stress or family behaviours. An Addiction often starts with trying something new, but the person doesn’t plan to get addicted. Drugs change how the brain works. It is a fact that drugs make you feel better.
One drug, which makes a person feel full of energy, is named Cocaine. Cocaine is a white powder. It can be snorted up the nose or mixed with water and injected with a needle. But it has to be said that some people also feel angry, scared or restless from Cocaine. Cocaine raises your blood pressure and raises your risk for a heart attack or stroke.
Another drug, which is very interesting in my opinion, is Marijuana. Marijuana is dried, crumbled leaves from the Marijuana plant. Marijuana can be rolled up and smoked like a cigarette (called a joint). The effects of taking Marijuana are feeling silly, relaxed, sleepy, and happy. It may change your senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Marijuana smoke can hurt your lungs like a cigarette.
But how can somebody stop the addiction? Most people who are addicted can't stop using drugs just because they want to. They don’t feel well without their drug. But getting the drug out of a person's system is just the first stage of treatment. People with addictions also need to change how they do things so they can live healthy lives again without drugs. They have to learn to care more about their family, friends, health and hobbies. Talking to psychiatrists or other people in treatment can help affected people.
In summary, drugs are very dangerous for humans. Some are more and others are less harmful. When you get addicted, it’s hard to stop the obsession. Sometimes the only opinion is to make a therapy. Finally, I want to say that, before you try something new, think about it clearly. Because you could get addicted – don’t forget this!
Stephanie Pirker
Addictions
ReplyDeleteIn Austria there are just two legal drugs which are alcohol and nicotine. And many people are addicted to those. But there are much more things you can be addicted to. In the following text you can read some information about some really hard drugs and some “normal” things.
There aren’t only drugs and alcohol you can be addicted to. There are also normal things like mobile phones or coffee and of course nicotine. Most of the people don’t believe that they are addicted to these things and their mood and health is getting worse. Also for other people it´s difficult to realize that maybe brothers or sisters or friends are in a bad situation. That is the next problem because people don’t work on their mistakes. So before they sleep more or eat more fruits, they drink a lot of coffee. The problem is I also drink coffee or take an aspirin when I am feeling bad. So I’m also addicted to those things. But I think that’s ok unless you can’t control it.
In Austria the biggest problem is nicotine, because nearly everybody in Austria smokes. Some people do it because they need it but the most do it just to be cool for their friends. And it´s almost the same with alcohol. It´s no problem when you sometimes go out with your friends. But when you begin to drink to forget your problems then it is going to be a big problem. Because then you mostly get addicted to it.
For young people drugs are not very good. In the development phase of a youngster the consumption of drugs is not good, because they can take consequential damages away. But a question which everybody asks is, why to take drugs?
There are also some illegal drugs for example marihuana, cocaine, LSD or crystal meth. If you smoke marihuana you will become very slow. Elevated blood pressure, heart attack risk and brain attack risk are some consequences of cocaine. Organ damage and panic attacks are the consequences of LSD. Crystal meth has the big consequence that you look - after you took it some time - like a thousand year old human.
You can also have fun without drugs. You can meet friends and play football or playing basketball. Taking hard drugs like crystal meth is very dangerous and stupid.
Stefan Zefferer
Drugs
ReplyDeleteDrugs are a big problem in the 21st century. But I think you can be addicted to everything.
In Austria legal drugs are nicotine and alcohol. A big part of the population smoke or drink.
Nicotine is very unhealthy for the lungs and when you’re thirty you look like fifty.
They also spend a lot of money on it – because one pack of cigarettes costs four or five euros and somebody who’s addicted needs two pack a day.
The best is you don’t start smoking or to drink so you haven’t to stop it.
There are many different drugs. Some are made in the laboratory some came from plants. For an example ecstasy and marihuana. There are diverse ways to take drugs. You can inject it, smoke it, inhale it or take tablets. The effects of the drug you take is different for everyone. But mostly you get addicted to them.
In school we saw a movie it`s called Basketball Diaries.
Basketball Diaries is a 1995 American drama film directed by Scott Kalvert, starring Leonardo Di Caprio.
There is a young boy who is playing in the school basketball team. His name is Jim Carroll. He takes drugs and is addicted to take more. Jim needs more money and so he has to live on the street. Then he is going to his mom but she calls the police to gets her son in prison. There he has a cold turkey but at the end he gives up to take drugs. His life is now much better and he tries to help his friends not do take drugs.
Nobody can solve his problems without drugs. There is always another way to solving trouble. At least we have to learn to say “no”, because drugs are really bad things and nobody should take this stuff, because drugs destroy thousands of lives.
Markus Sammt
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ReplyDeleteAddictions
ReplyDeleteDrugs. A big mistake, but who has invented it? Of course the human kind has. In our crazy world, a part of people have a compulsion to destroy their bodies. Many of them want more attention from their fellows. Furthermore, most of drug addicts have not got a livelihood.
Many people in the world have addictions or take drugs. Because they have problems, for example they fight with someone or something or they have stress.
Drugs are a very big business for dealers but also a high risk for the addicted people. They lose their money and also their health.
In our century people are under pressure. They absolutely want a rich life. But that’s not very easy to have. Plenty of people are poor and their lives are very difficult. So people need some stuff to solve their problems. They think, it will be all easier.
One of the most taken drug is alcohol. Alcohol is a poison, it injures your body. Alcohol affects our feelings, behaviours, thinking and our sensations. In fact you can get an alcohol dependency and in the end you could get an alcohol poisoning. It is a legal substance.
Cocaine, on the other hand, is an illegal substance. But people take it too, because the stuff makes them very brisk. Cocaine is a white powder and you can snuff it or you can inject it into the veins. It is a dope and you get addicted very fast. On top of this, in Peru and Colombia the natives drink the coca leaves as tea or they chew it.
The last famous drug is heroin. Heroin changes your conscience and calms you down. You can also inject it into the veins. Moreover heroin damage your body. Heroin is also an illegal stuff.
So we can see, how drugs can destroy us and how stupid people can be, who only want to be cool.
But addictions can also concern gambling, work, sports, bulimia, anorexia…In fact you can addicted of everything.
Elena Ebenschweiger
ReplyDeleteDrugs
Illegal drugs became more and more famous in Austria. There are many differences between illegal and legal drugs. For example nicotine and alcohol are legal drugs in Austria.
Let’s start with the legal drugs alcohol and nicotine. Nicotine is a very dangerous drug for human beings because nicotine damages your lung. Alcohol is the most dangerous drug in Austria. All year in Austria there die 8.000 people on alcohol abuse. When you smoke or start drinking it is not easy to stop with this. I will be better that you never begin with such dangerous addictive drug.
Illegal drugs are for example heroin, cocaine, LSD and marihuana. Most illegal drug in Austria is marihuana.
If you smoke marihuana you will become very slow.
For example:
Heroin is a very dangerous drug and you can die very fast. Heroin come about into the blood about shots and you dazed
Cocaine or crack is the second most drug in Austria. In Austria died 100 people because of this dangerous drug. You can get cocaine very easily. First of all you get cocaine in the big cities of Czech.
Marihuana is the most used illegal drug in Austria. You can buy Marihuana from a dealer at every street corner. Marihuana comes mainly from Afghanistan and Morocco. Marihuana can be smoked but in Austria it is illegal because you get dazed and you are not sane. Marihuana can be used for tourett syndrome. These human beings are smoking Marihuana because after smoking their attacks will be not so often.
LSD causes big hallucinogens and you lose control of your body. LSD is an illegal drug in Austria but it does not appear often in Austria.
I my opinion drugs are not so very dangerous for human beings and I hope I will never take illegal drugs. But legal drugs for example coffin, nicotine and alcohol are not so dangerous as cocaine or heroin …. But if you take too much at these,AA it will be harmful for your body.
Addictions
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard the word addiction? I think so because there are a lot of different addictions in our society. But all addiction are not the same! Talking about addictions, most people have drugs in mind. Nevertheless, you can make out an addiction of everything, some people are addicted to sport, some people are addicted to work, or you can also get addicted to food.
I want to talk about the most dangerous addiction in Austria first. It is alcohol, because every fourth addiction is an alcohol addiction. Alcohol is a legal drug and that’s why you can get it everywhere. The problem is that you can’t stop drinking. This addiction starts slowly but alcohol can destroy your body very quickly. Furthermore, one should not forget that alcohol is not so bad if you don’t drink it too much or too often.
If you are addicted, you will take drugs most of the time. Today there are a lot of drugs and you can split them in two groups: illegal drugs, for example opium, and legal drugs like alcohol.
I want to begin with the legal drugs. When you reach a certain age you can buy and take them legally. But watch out, not in every country are the same rules. For example, in the United States of America you have to be twenty-one to get alcohol.
The second type of drugs are the illegal drugs, most of the time they are more dangerous than the legal drugs. You risk your life when you take them, so my opinion is that it is good that they are illegal. Those people who take these drugs need help. Talk with them about their addiction!
In summary addictions are a bad thing. They destroy your body and can probably kill you. I don’t wish anybody of us to he gets addicted to something dangerous.
Erwin Wagner
Ecstasy
ReplyDeleteEcstasy is also called MDMA, X or XTC and it is a psychoactive drug in the amphetamine class. When you take ecstasy, it begins to operate after 20-60 minutes.
You get a drier mouth and bigger pupils and you may feel sick. Your positive and negative feelings get stronger and stronger and your inhibitions get weaker. Ecstasy is very bad because the negative effects are that the undesirable effects gets more after some time and the positive effects, like you feel good, drop.
When you are stressed and you take ecstasy you can get a collapse and your heart, liver and your kidney gets charged. When you take lots of this drug you will be afraid of everything and you would be disoriented and just without any plan. If you take it for a long time you can have permanent trouble with your brain. You can have sleep disturbances, psychical dependence and insecurity in everything you do.
It’s also very dangerous when you take ecstasy with alcohol, speed, hallucinogens, coffin and cannabis. You can buy it as white capsules or as small, colorful pills. It will be 24 hours in your body and about three days in your urine. In your hair it will be some months.
It’s illegal and also culpable in Austria. There is no riskless consumption and it is a “Schedule I” drug. This means that ecstasy has no official medical use and it’s highly addictive. Ecstasy would be useful in psychotherapy when remembering bad memories. This drug also has potential for dying patients when they would die. It could also be used for other mental illnesses such as depression or drug addiction.
On my mind, I wouldn’t take ecstasy or other drugs because it would not make your life better.
Bettina Schupfer
What are drugs? How do they work? Are they dangerous? These questions are important questions and they must be answered.
ReplyDeleteMany countries in our World have big problems with drugs. Mostly teens are concerned. They take drugs because of peer pressure or when they have big problems in their families.
In the beginning I want to talk about legal drugs and their effects. An example for a legal drug is alcohol. Many people drink it and enjoy it. It is a party “drug”. I think it is okay to drink alcohol on parties and with friends, but you shouldn´t overdose it. Alcohol can be dangerous when you drink too much. You can get dependent and it can destroy your body. Cigarettes are also legal and they can also destroy your body!
Now I will talk about illegal drugs. Drugs are very dangerous you can get hallucinations and you can´t control your body when you take them. Examples for illegal drugs are ecstasy, heroin, marihuana and many more. You can smoke, sniff, inhale or take it as a pill.
Now I will answer some questions. Drugs are amphetamines when you take them you get lucky and you think that you don’t have problems. But when you wake up from your trip you get fucked up and your life goes down the stream. Drugs are really dangerous they destroy your body and you can get addicted. When you take drugs you don’t have much money and it can destroy your family. When you don´t have any money you have to live on the streets. Some people are so dependent that they sell their own bodies.
All in all drugs aren´t healthy for your body and you should leave your fingers of them. Each person should know her/himself what is good for his body and where are the own limits.
-Theresa Paar