What is this Ice Task Force going to do?

[donnashuggy]

For those addicted to the drug.

[*pepe]

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@poddster wrote:

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@kathys.clown14 wrote:

Far out dude, so much aggro. Have a chuff and chill man

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Is that what you would do in response to a sesious accusation?

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serious accusation?

what rot.

you are blowing it up out of all proportion and drawing attention to it - most would have read it and kept on scrolling, but you are making sure that doesn't happen.

[poddster]

Dont forget the waistline  🙂

[*pepe]

nobody cares if you smoke pot you know.

[*pepe]

so,,, how about that task force....

[cherry*135]

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@poddster wrote:

Dont forget the waistline  🙂

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Salt free, fat free. no issues for the waistline.

[cherry*135]

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@*pepe wrote:

so,,, how about that task force....

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A report mid-year that will collect dust on a shelf.

[polksaladallie]

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@chuk_77 wrote:

tobacco is perfectly legal. Ice however is not and stuffs you up quicker and in far worse ways than smokes ever could. Do some research before making such insane comments. You wanna try ice? Be my guest, you will be addicted more or less straight away and no doubt dead or in jail within a few years. God you come out with strange things

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This is not true.  The same was said of heroin years ago, that was not true either.

[polksaladallie]

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@joz*garage wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

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@donnashuggy wrote:

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@*pepe wrote:

probably create treatment programs that the addicts won't ever bother to use to help themselves.

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The injecting room gets used doesn't it?

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that isn't a treatment program

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yes im wondering what sort of rehab treatment program treats the patient with the dog that bit them

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Methadone.

[i-need-a-martini · Accepted solution]

Ice is a drug like no other. The addiction take up is almost instant and it is cheap enough for kids to start using young. And treatment is almost never successful

To waste time and money arresting users is the stupidest thing I ever heard.

The task force should have been led with a social agenda, not a law and order agenda. The focus should be on manufacturers and education, not on users.

And (call me cynical but) over the last year or so the Abbott government has stopped funding research for addiction and treatment plus it has moved funding for many post-recovery and rehabilitation programmes for drug users almost entirely to non governement bodies. Up until last week, even that funding was had been axed. Government funding is now almost non existent to the most vulnerable groups such as indigenous youth.

And it's not as if we are talkng big money here - we are only talking about $15mill a year! This is the same amount of money that the government has wasted trying to sell Pynes tertiary education ideas.

[***super_nova***]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

It seems that most bi-polar sufferers have a history of amphetamaine use in their youth, or childhood, but I haven't heard what the long term effects of methamphetamine are.  Some people use it as a recreational drug only, and have no problems.  Same as any other drug.

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I would rephrase it:  "bi-polar sufferers tends to not cope during adolescence and often turn to drugs and/or alcohol during this time.  Parents then blame the drugs for change in their children, but cause and effect is not established.  Many kids experiment during their teens". 

I agree, many people take "hard" drugs recreationally without getting addicted.  These people are not known about, because we do not hear about them, we do not notice them if we pass them on the street.  But some do get addicted; most likely because of underlying problem.   They need help just like any other ill person does, and the cost of helping them is less than the cost to society if we keep jailing them, and then letting them out with the same problems only aggravated by poverty and less chance of getting job, or proper help. 

TA's ignorance showed when he said something about ICE being more addictive than LSD, which is not addictive.