Saturday, 4 April 2009

Drugs Lecture - LSD

I don't know if its just me, but i thought the lecture on drugs was pointless. The lecturer said at the beginning that heroin was now the main problem drug in the UK, so why do a lecture on a drug which is virtually non-existent in Britain?
According to the statistics (National Statistics Online), the main drugs that caused the 2,640 deaths in the UK were heroin and crack cocaine, not LSD. Personally, i would have thought a lecture on these drugs would have been more relevant and up to date, especially as the social care students will encounter these drugs once they are in practice (if they work with communities or youth). According to Home Office statistics, the number of people abusing LSD falls each each, with the total number of LSD users being very small compared to drugs like cocaine. In 2002, the statistics show there were 642,000 people per year using cocaine compared to only 79,000 using LSD. I would have thought doing a lecture on the more addictive problem drugs would have been better, also as LSD, according to the drug addiction website is not physically addictive.




It is well proven that drugs such as heroin and cocaine cause broken homes, failed relationships and lost childhoods for children, so why would a lecture on LSD be relevant? I thought LSD had died out with the hippies. As a social care student hoping to work in drugs once qualified i would have enjoyed a lecture that focused on the drugs that currently cause problems in our country. Heroin also funds Muslim terrorist activities because it is manufactured in countries by farmers who are subsidised by the terrorists. The history and problems caused by drugs like this are a better eye opener and make for a more interesting lecture that would have given all students something to take away with them and to think about. After the LSD lecture all i could think about were the poor buggers who had LSD tested on them, but even this was like 30 or 40 years ago which is hardly relevant for students today. I have spoken to a few students who have said the lecture learnt them nothing and i feel the same.


With stars constantly in the news with addiction problems, maybe its better for students to understand the drugs that are causing these addictions. Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty are both addicted to heroin and crack cocaine, not LSD, and as the crap role models we have in the UK they portray hard drugs like heroin as anti-establishment and OK to do. Winehouse was voted ultimate heroine (above Lady Diana) and Doherty was voted second most male popular hero by the UK's youth in a 2008 poll by Sky.com, so it shows what these idiots do does have an effect on Britain's younger generations. The results of the poll i thought were horrifying. The popularity of the 'heroin chic' look in UK fashion at the moment (such as on the left) does little to deter teenagers away from Class A drugs, if anything, it glamorises the ghoulish look of heroin addicts, which is absolutely crazy.



Another point is our NHS spends £3 million per day fighting heroin addiction all of which come out of tax payers pockets. It does not spend this much money fighting LSD. Britain has a rising problem with both heroin and cocaine, and the problems these addictions cause reach every corner of society. Be it crime caused by addicts stealing to fund their addictions, British soldiers being blown up in Iraq and Afghanistan with bombs bought and paid for by UK heroin use, or acts of terrorism on British soil by Muslim fanatics, again paid for by heroin bought by addicts in the UK after being smuggled though Pakistan. The harm and misery caused by heroin and crack is endless, where as LSD causes none of this.



In conclusion, i thought being a student was about being up-to-date with current issues, not old stuff from years ago. I thought my lectures would reflect this. Obviously i was wrong.


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