Drugs root causes and solutions

Intent: This post intended as input to acknowledge and address social problems.

Basic Approach: If every citizen can earn bread and butter (Necessities) with respect, 90% of social problems will be eliminated.

What does it mean to earn bread and butter with respect?

A worker is not required to have in depth political knowledge to work on any designation, but it is expected from every individual now.

Believe it or not, politics has crawled into work places and inside families. Innocent and simple people have skills and strength to work hard and with honesty. It is simply not allowed anymore. It is clearly known that clever people are promoted, and they try to eliminate competition by bulling simple and honest worker. In most cases, these simple and honest people do not want drama, so they voluntarily quit from jobs.

Now let us come to a big social problem, drugs and medical prescriptions. Why I included medical prescription in drugs? Well, I have suffered the severe consciences and the companies cannot be sued because they clearly mentioned in side effects that the person can even lose memory and brain damage.

Now, let us discuss why people take drugs. Every healthy person has dreams and want to manifest those dreams. The social structure, instead of helping them achieve what they want, puts a hundred barriers in their path. The legal structure is so complicated it works against common citizens most of the time.

So why people take drugs – The most common reason is - to escape from reality because they could not make their dreams true. People drink alcohol for various reasons including relaxation, socializing, escaping problems, etc.

This is my request to the all levels of governments, please consider this honest input and practical experience gathered from severe suffering. It is not too late to save our future generations. Material success does not mean anything if we have so many social problems that surface every day and gets highlighted on world stage. We know root causes, all we need is intent to act rightfully.

Now let us start from alcohol

What is alcohol?

A colorless volatile liquid that is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars and is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits, and other drinks,

A chemical substance found in drinks such as beer, wine, and liquor. It is also found in some medicines, mouthwashes, household products, and essential oils (scented liquid taken from certain plants). It is made by a chemical process called fermentation that uses sugars and yeast. There are different types of alcohol. The type used to make alcoholic drinks is called ethyl alcohol (ethanol). Drinking regular or large amounts of alcohol may increase the risk of certain types of cancer, such as cancer of the mouth, throat, esophagus, breast, liver, colon, and rectum.

Composition

100 ml Beer contains an average 5ml or 5 mg of ethanol (95 ml water+5 ml ethanol)

100 ml Wine contains an average 12ml or 12 mg of ethanol (88 ml water +12 ml ethanol)

100 ml Whisky, Rum or any hard liquor contains 40 ml of ethanol (60 ml water +40 ml of ethanol)

Other than ethanol, traces of other alcohol may present

Chemical Formulae

Methanol Ch3OH

Ethanol C2H5OH

Propanol C3H7OH

Butanol C4H9OH

Pentanol C5H11OH and so on

It takes courage to share personal experiences, please reflect.

People may talk without any in depth knowledge of the subject. Please allow me to share my own experience with prescribed drugs that were prescribed to fight with a temporary depression.

40 mg tablets three times a day for the first 6 years, then reduced to 20 mg twice a day. These drugs kept my brain in trance state. After work, I was often lying on a sofa or bed in an awake state, but not able to move my body much. There were times when kids were at school and the wife at work and I had to crawl from bed to washroom or get water.

How can other people preach about a situation they never faced themselves?

It is not a complex science that to quit such strong drugs one needs soft or less strong drugs to quit. I knew a little bit of science and managed to reduced my prescription to 5 mg once a day in two-year period. There is only one person who know the effects and that is me. To beat the depression state, I started dancing and running. I also took the support of wine and beer in controlled amounts to quit the heavy dose of prescription drug. If I left it on medical department, 14 years is not a small period of time. A decade of my life passed under my nose, lying in a trance state of brain. I still managed to achieve more than anybody can think. I am in a perfectly healthy state because of hard work and prioritizing my health at the top of the priority list.

How it works in the brain

Alcohol has a few different functions in the brain. It represses an excitatory neurotransmitter, glutamate, and increases an inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA. This means that one’s thoughts, movements, and speech are impaired, and become more impaired as consumption increases. Alcohol’s repressive effect as a nervous system depressant means that it slows down parts of the brain. Areas that it affects include those that control inhibition, thought, perception, attention, judgment, memory, sleep and coordination.

However, alcohol also increases the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, which is known for its role in the “reward system” of your brain. This causes your brain to think it is having a good time, and therefore one may continue to drink to chase the release of dopamine. However, with consistent exposure, the effects of dopamine begin to diminish. At this point, one is often attached to the effects of dopamine, so they continue to drink with the hopes of feeling the “high”, despite not receiving it.

People think they have a smartphone and search everything on the internet?

Where would they get practical experience?

Tell the new generation to replace a plumbing tap or assemble an piece of furniture by watching a video, how many of them can do it practically?

Practical experience prevails, it does not matter what others know theoretically.

Does overdose deaths, drug problems, suicides surfaced overnight?

Just look at the map, you will find one marijuana store & one liquor store in every block.

Finding a social service may need months of search and one in 20 blocks.

I landed in Canada in 2006-2007 and the news were same, so many deaths because of drug overdose.

What is the outcome of the last 20 years??

Do different levels of governments (municipal, provincial and federal) acknowledge or identified the root causes. If yes, then how can we not deal to it effectively?

I know these problems will always exit, but it can be kept under check and minimized to the least extent. Will office jobs exist if our all workers are trapped in drug addiction and criminal activities? I always knew the hiring process of drug gangs and criminals. They isolate people, make them financially weak, then hire them. Why governments do not know this simple thing?