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Do young people need to be more aware of the dangers of solvent abuse?
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Campaigners are calling for a solvent abuse awareness day in order to help young people understand more about the dangers involved. The problem is that although solvents give the person a momentary high it quickly disappears and the only way to get it back is to keep on inhaling. This can lead to tragic consequences. Would it help to have a solvent awareness day? Or is it something that needs to be taught to kids at school?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7063619.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7063619.stm
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It wouldn�t really make a difference. We have plenty of things advising us of �the danger of..*...� which really don�t make much different.
* insert: "drugs, alcohol, playing frogger, masturbating, binge drinking, strange men in long raincoats", as applicable depending which day/week/month/year it is
* insert: "drugs, alcohol, playing frogger, masturbating, binge drinking, strange men in long raincoats", as applicable depending which day/week/month/year it is
Before I opened the link I had a picture of the solvent abusers as ugly feral peasant children wearing baseball caps and stolen sportswear. Surprise, surprise when I did view the link I was right.
Teenagers have a brain and teenagers have a free will. If they want to sniff glue it is on their own volition and desire to get high.
Unless they are COMPLETE morons (i.e institutionalised with some severe mental disability) they know the dangers involved. Much the same as with cigarettes and alcohol abuse.
Now I am not saying the lad deserved to die, because no doubt that we make me sound like a heartless old bar steward, but thinking of all the benefits he and, later, his foul offspring will reap from my taxes, the criminal behaviour he already undertakes and the progressions of such behaviour further on in life, his mother may take comfort from the fact his death was probably a good thing.
Unlike some drug abuse, mostly cocaine, solvent abuse is probably 99.9999 percent reserved for poor, ignorant criminal children who have no value in a civilised society. If you gathered together 10 boys from decent stable family backgrounds who respect their teachers and pat the family dog and 10 boys from, say, Cardiff, and placed 20 tubes of "Uhu Super strenght" on a table, I will bet my house the good kids will glue together some AirFix toys whilst the fatherless and Kappa wearing scum will have a little sniff.
I despise mentioning class issues, because I may come accross as a snob, but solvent abuse really is not an issue for decent society. Therefore to answer the question, I refuse to spend even more of my money on schools to teach these foul children things which are common sense to normal people. The dangers are already documented.
If their mothers only kept their legs shut instead of breeding like randy rabbits to get even more money from the DSS, they wouldn't be crying
Teenagers have a brain and teenagers have a free will. If they want to sniff glue it is on their own volition and desire to get high.
Unless they are COMPLETE morons (i.e institutionalised with some severe mental disability) they know the dangers involved. Much the same as with cigarettes and alcohol abuse.
Now I am not saying the lad deserved to die, because no doubt that we make me sound like a heartless old bar steward, but thinking of all the benefits he and, later, his foul offspring will reap from my taxes, the criminal behaviour he already undertakes and the progressions of such behaviour further on in life, his mother may take comfort from the fact his death was probably a good thing.
Unlike some drug abuse, mostly cocaine, solvent abuse is probably 99.9999 percent reserved for poor, ignorant criminal children who have no value in a civilised society. If you gathered together 10 boys from decent stable family backgrounds who respect their teachers and pat the family dog and 10 boys from, say, Cardiff, and placed 20 tubes of "Uhu Super strenght" on a table, I will bet my house the good kids will glue together some AirFix toys whilst the fatherless and Kappa wearing scum will have a little sniff.
I despise mentioning class issues, because I may come accross as a snob, but solvent abuse really is not an issue for decent society. Therefore to answer the question, I refuse to spend even more of my money on schools to teach these foul children things which are common sense to normal people. The dangers are already documented.
If their mothers only kept their legs shut instead of breeding like randy rabbits to get even more money from the DSS, they wouldn't be crying
wow! i've never heard so much hatred and stupidity in one big speel! is it hard harbouring all that stupidity and hatred in one brain? is there a power struggle to see who will win- the stupidity or the hatred?
Bewlay Bros please keep such vile hatred to yourself if thats the level of intellect your gonna bring to this discussion
Bewlay Bros please keep such vile hatred to yourself if thats the level of intellect your gonna bring to this discussion
Don't hold back Wardy!
I hadn't realised it was still such a big problem. In the 80's I used to work with young people and it became a big issue nationally I was amazed at what could be 'sniffed' gas from fluorescent tubes and the fumes from burning buttons on public telephones etc.
However my favourite story was the steredent one - kids in the south discovered that by dropping steredent tablets in petrol the ensuing bubbles prolonged the fumes and therefore the high. This spread by word of mouth but by the time it reached the north the message was 'you can snort steredent tablets' resulting in hoardes of kids in a and e with fizzing, bubbling, painful noses as they had snorted it like coke!
I hadn't realised it was still such a big problem. In the 80's I used to work with young people and it became a big issue nationally I was amazed at what could be 'sniffed' gas from fluorescent tubes and the fumes from burning buttons on public telephones etc.
However my favourite story was the steredent one - kids in the south discovered that by dropping steredent tablets in petrol the ensuing bubbles prolonged the fumes and therefore the high. This spread by word of mouth but by the time it reached the north the message was 'you can snort steredent tablets' resulting in hoardes of kids in a and e with fizzing, bubbling, painful noses as they had snorted it like coke!
ohhh bewlay if i could use the other words i really want without them being blanked i would!
and oh you try to come off here as the innocent one
"I apologise if i hate criminals"
but its not just the criminals its the probably 2-3 million people that because they are on benefits are potential criminals of course! never mind the facts that there really isnt that many criminals in this country or the fact that most people on benefits are decent people unable to get work.
then you totally blow your own argument by attacking working class people as 99.99999% potential drug addicts but then just carefully only mention cocaine abusers in one small sentence?
Thats right drug abuse isn't about class its about addiction!
anyone regardless of class can be an addict and to mention the whole "I pay my tax blah blah blah" well so do a lot of people and you dont here them bitching cause some poor kid has died!
and oh you try to come off here as the innocent one
"I apologise if i hate criminals"
but its not just the criminals its the probably 2-3 million people that because they are on benefits are potential criminals of course! never mind the facts that there really isnt that many criminals in this country or the fact that most people on benefits are decent people unable to get work.
then you totally blow your own argument by attacking working class people as 99.99999% potential drug addicts but then just carefully only mention cocaine abusers in one small sentence?
Thats right drug abuse isn't about class its about addiction!
anyone regardless of class can be an addict and to mention the whole "I pay my tax blah blah blah" well so do a lot of people and you dont here them bitching cause some poor kid has died!
As beryl has said, I used to hang around street corners on wet afternoons bunking off school. We were well aware of the dangers, but you still had the group thicko wheezing into a brown paper bag full of glue or tippex remover thinking he was cool, and those that thought he was cool, trying to join in.
Stupid is as stupid does. No amount of warnings and awareness will end that endless cycle of human endeavour.
Stupid is as stupid does. No amount of warnings and awareness will end that endless cycle of human endeavour.
One of my neighbours died after sniffing solvents. Everyone was doing it because everyone got their information from their mates.
We grew up in a middle class area in Ireland, not some inner city slum in the middle of some vast city.
She was 11.
Awareness in schools is years overdue in the UK, and has been tackled here decades ago.
We grew up in a middle class area in Ireland, not some inner city slum in the middle of some vast city.
She was 11.
Awareness in schools is years overdue in the UK, and has been tackled here decades ago.
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