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- From: lauraf@classy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Laura Floom)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Potheads of the 70's Raising Kids
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:44:28 GMT
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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- In article <1993Jan22.020602.531435@locus.com> judy@locus.com (Judy Tryer) writes:
- >
- >People have different body chemistries and what is enjoyable to one person
- >may be completely unpleasant to another. However, I believe that there is
- >some drug that will be pleasant to each person, so pleasant that having once
- >experienced the drug, that person will have a problem with craving that
- >drug for the rest of his or her life. For some it is alcohol, for others
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- There is some truth in what you are saying but only if the person has an
- addictive personality. I knew someone who had a major problem with coke.
- I heard stories from te first (of several) rehabs she went thru. Basically,
- the patients were strongly encouraged to give up all other drugs (alcohol
- being the biggie) because it is common of addictive personalities to trade
- one drug for another. They didnt particarly address tabacco, so that by the
- end of the rehab most of the people were practically chain smokers. I have
- heard that most AA meetings are one big cloud of smoke.
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- The counselor from the rehab said that addictive personalities tend to be
- genetic. The woman had two kids (early teen and mid teen), and was encouraged
- to seek counseling for both kids. It was felt that it is possible to determine
- if a child exhibits the traits that make them suseptible to addictions. Her
- daughter was considered a low risk, and her son a high risk.
-
- I think we all know people who wouldnt dream of touching alcohol because they
- grew up with an alcoholic, and was afraid of turning out the same way. I
- think if someone had a history of drug addiction (or alcohol) in thier family
- it would be well worth making sure the children realize there is a genetic
- predispostion. In anycase addiction is something that all kids need to
- understand, but like all other evils-of-drugs stories, kids may not necessarily
- think it applies to them.
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- On the other hand, many of us did have pleasant experienses with drugs and
- did not get addicted, or even close. This wouldnt work as a blanket
- argument, because teens are going to realize that.
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- Laura Floom
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