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How do people die because of drugs?

SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !

Reports show that the rate of suicide in France is one of the highest in the European Union. France has the highest rate of suicides amongst youth aged from 15 to 24. Suicide is the primary cause of death in this group. [...]
Extract of a letter of the French Prime Minister (Jean-Pierre Raffarin) to the Minister of Health (Christine Boutin) on April 17th 2003.

In 2008 our country still had the highest rate of suicide of people aged from 15 to 24 in the European Union!

Let us not forget that suicide is most of the time a consequence of drug taking, legal or illegal.

 

How do people die because of drugs?

 

SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !


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Quiz

Are there pills to stop drugs ?

  • Yes
  • No

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Drugs are not a disease. The best way to stop them is not to take any. Heroin addicts who achieved withdraw admit that complete abstinence is the only solution. They say it themselves : it is more difficult to withdraw from Subutex (substitution drugs) than from heroin…

Is current cannabis an average of 10 times more dosed than in 1968 ?

  • Yes
  • No

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In 1968, it contained from 0,6 to 6% of THC – TetraHydroCannabinol - principal active substance. In recent years through genetic modifications, hybrids and greenhouse cultures, it can contain up to 35% of THC. Nowadays, cannabis consumed by teenagers does not have anything in common with what their parents knew. For more information about cannabis see “Technical Information” section.

Would you lend your car to your child knowing that he/she cannot drive ?

  • Yes
  • No

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No parent would lend his car to his child knowing he/she has not learnt to drive. It would also be unconscionable to let one’s teenager go out without having taught him/her what drugs are. Nowadays availability of these products is such that youth can procure them in all the places they frequent – educational establishments, parties, class dinners, rallies, sport clubs... Parents must inform themselves objectively and scientifically about the products so to educate their children on drugs and provide them with the arguments to refuse them. Let us remember that drug addiction doesn’t just happen to others!

Is alcohol a drug?

  • Yes
  • No

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Yes, Alcohol is a sedative drug. In drinking regularly a large amount of alcohol, one becomes an alcoholic within a few years. Alcohol is characteristically able to potentialize the effect of all other drugs it is mixed with. If one mixes alcohol with another or others drugs, one can very rapidly become a drug-addict.

Can a psychotropic drug lead to ill being, depression, suicide?

  • Yes
  • No

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Any psychotropic drug, be it legal - anxiolytic, tranquillizer, benzodiazepine, neuroleptic - or illegal - street drugs - leads to ill-being, depression and to suicide. See table with side effects of psychotropic drugs – Technical Information/Classification .

Voir le tableau des effets secondaires des drogues psychotropes (Fiches  / Classification)