Aurora Ontario and the need for drug treatment centres in ontario

In May of 2011, a seminar was held for Aurora youth and families. Clearly, the community is aware of the growing drug problems that have seeped into even the local society. No one goes unaffected by the devastation created in the wake of addictions. While drug related crime is nothing new to larger communities, even law enforcement has noted that there is an increase even in smaller communities. Many of the crimes...

The Diversion of Prescription Drugs

Diversion and abuse of prescription drugs is becoming more of a problem as society in general becomes more dependent on drugs. The problem will continue, and intensify the more reliant we become upon the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the practice of modern day medicine. Until authorities re assess and modify their blind acceptance of and financial support for endemic drug use in healthcare, society can expect to...

The World’s Youngest Drug Users

UNODC reports an estimated 172 -250 million drug users in the world with between 18 and 38 million addicted,in 2009. As drug abuse and dependence increases, so the age at which drugs are first used by children continues to drop. Afghanistan is said to have the lowest ages for children starting drug use in the world. In a 2006 report by the Daily Mail, Britain’s youngest recorded heroin addict was given heroin...

MDMA, Meth and your Child, in Canada.

A recent posting to MAP, a Media Awareness Project bringing news about drugs, reports an issue of concern to parents of young children about methamphetamine use in the City of Sault Ste Marie in Ontario, Canada. Methamphetamine is a psychostimulant that can lead to addiction, a synthetic drug produced in speed labs, based on pseudoephedrine. One of the many variations of meth drug that there has been is Ecstasy,...

Grow Your Own Drugs

A book by James Wong with the intriguing title “Grow Your Own Drugs” might lead people to think that he offers advice on how to grow bud in your backyard. It is to be hoped that people who get the book to read up about drug cultivation will read enough to become inspired by James Wong’s “take” on plants – to reconsider synthetic drug use - with a view to permanently disposing of...