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Drug use and stoner sloth
9 years ago
http://www.vice.com/read/why-stoner.....m-getting-high
It is no surprise we have a division in our society between those who take illegal drugs and those who do not. But did you know that many children, adults and teens who take drugs have done so for reasons that begin first the brain with mental disorders and related childhood trauma.
A growing majority of drug users have preexisting conditions that may cause them to be more reserved and drawn back from socialization. The approach our media and governments has made to tackle drug use has primarily been one of isolation, diminishing the value of drug users and regarding them as outcasts essentially shaming them. This attitude towards drug use is more harmful than good and will do the opposite of its intended purpose, pushing away drug users and cutting their chances of seeking help or coping with any condition they may have.
While drug culture can bring together the freaks and geeks of all stripes into a welcoming community efforts are made outside these cultures to isolate them rather than understand them. This approach hasn't curbed drug use by any measure and does nothing to address the underlying issues that can lead to drug use.
When we put tags in our profiles or declare we are proudly drug free we are essentially telling over fifty percent of drug users were proud to not have mental illnesses. This is a dangerous and unsympathetic pride and only worsens the issue for others.
It is no surprise we have a division in our society between those who take illegal drugs and those who do not. But did you know that many children, adults and teens who take drugs have done so for reasons that begin first the brain with mental disorders and related childhood trauma.
A growing majority of drug users have preexisting conditions that may cause them to be more reserved and drawn back from socialization. The approach our media and governments has made to tackle drug use has primarily been one of isolation, diminishing the value of drug users and regarding them as outcasts essentially shaming them. This attitude towards drug use is more harmful than good and will do the opposite of its intended purpose, pushing away drug users and cutting their chances of seeking help or coping with any condition they may have.
While drug culture can bring together the freaks and geeks of all stripes into a welcoming community efforts are made outside these cultures to isolate them rather than understand them. This approach hasn't curbed drug use by any measure and does nothing to address the underlying issues that can lead to drug use.
When we put tags in our profiles or declare we are proudly drug free we are essentially telling over fifty percent of drug users were proud to not have mental illnesses. This is a dangerous and unsympathetic pride and only worsens the issue for others.
And how many times does science have to reveal that drug use and addiction is a social problem?
I finally looked at the website, that's a pretty good fursuit. I'd hug him. ...or her.
Such as alienating and isolating drug users and treating them as outcasts is counterproductive and does more harm than good. That drug culture needs to be understood, not isolated in order to address the real problems behind at least 50% of drug issues such as mental health.
How we alienate teens who use drugs when they already had mental disorders that may of had them acting as outsiders to begin with before drug use and how doing so to them only pushes them further from help. Throughout the entire sloth ad kids make fun of the sloth, others accuse her of being too slow. Its a mess and its awful
Here's a quote from my FA page that seems relevant:
"Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky.
It is the prohibition that makes anything precious."
- Mark Twain (Got that from the Ken Burns PBS series Prohibition)
This seems to be similar to the phenomenon I've seen in Furry several times, where someone is very adamantly Christian and Straight, and they go to great lengths to tell you this, only after some months or a year passes to turn out to actually be gay... they were Christian Straight before they found out the fandom is very accepting of gender preference.
P.S. The fursuits in the Stoner Sloth ads... I'd hit 'em too... ;)