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Drug Talk
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Mr. Carroll said, “I’m not going to tell you what decisions you’re going to make. I respect the fact that you will make your own decisions. I’m going to share information that is believable, so when you make your decisions, you will do it with some information.”
He said his subject is “chemicals, mind altering, mood and perception altering chemicals. Legal or illegal doesn’t matter.” He said drugs are not a worse problem now than in the past. “The prdblem is the same now as it was 100 years ago,” he said.
Mr. Carroll said people have tried to fix the problem by passing laws. He said that in the ’20s and ’30s cocaine was legal and in CocaCola, and alcohol was illegal. He said people use the chemicals “because it works. Man has a need to relieve pain and achieve altered states of consciousness.”
He tried a brief quiz with the students and they found that they were all familiar with pitches for drugs and alcohol from television. “We live in a drug using society,” he said. The message on television is “if you’re uncomfortable, feeling shy or bored, take a pill, take a drink and it will go away.”
He said alcohol “the most lethal drug known to man is legal and available without a prescription for recreational use.” He added, “There are more overdose deaths due to al
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