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PROTOXYDE D’AZOTE
En octobre, à Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel, un ado de 15 ans a été retrouvé mort, près du stade de foot. Deux jeunes en quelques mois. « Le premier consommait du protoxyde d’azote dans un contexte festif, le deuxième avait une pratique addictive et isolée », nous explique Bruno Frémont, médecin légiste à Verdun qui a autopsié les deux corps.
Alors que la question de la dépénalisation du cannabis défraie régulièrement la chronique, voici 15 raisons, de ne pas donner un signal d'innocuité fallacieux à notre jeunesse:
A l'occasion du débat sur la dépénalisation du cannabis qui agite régulièrement la scène médiatique, Patrice Tran Ba Huy, professeur de Médecine à la Faculté Saint-Louis-Lariboisière, membre de l'Académie nationale de Médecine et président de la société française d'ORL, explique quelles sont les redoutables conséquences sanitaires qu'amplifierait sans nul doute pareille décision. Lire l'article.
de Soeur Elvira, la "soeur des drogués", Edition des Béatitudes, mai 2014.
Voici la biographie intégrale de Soeur Elvira. Des pages d'une grande humanité qui nous font comprendre ce que sont les centres d'abstinence.
de Lolita SENE, Editions Robert Laffont, Mars 2015.
À travers le personnage de Juliette, Lolita Sene raconte ses années d'addiction à la cocaïne. De sa province natale à Paris ou elle travaille dans l'événementiel, du monde euphorique de la nuit aux soirées en appartement, de son cercle d'amis à ses histoires d'amour, Juliette rencontre de la cocaïne partout. Soutien factice de la confiance en soi, celle-ci s'est considérablement banalisée. Comme les autres, Juliette sombre dans la dépendance.C. montretoute la détermination qu'il faut pour s'affranchir de cette drogue dure et redonner un sens à sa vie.
Un livre que parents et adolescents doivent lire pour déjouer les pièges de la drogue.
Alors que le pojet de dépénalisation du cannabis revient régulièrement sur le devant de la scène, une mère de famille tire la sonnette d'alarme.
Voir l'article de presse sur ce fléau.
A cigarette of cannabis = 7 tobacco cigarettes, because of the tar and bronchodilation said Dr. CHAMAYOU in his thesis.
We also note in his thesis that:
Look around you. You will be surprised to see that many young people are able to drink three or four glasses of alcohol without being the least bit "tipsy". Why? Because they have cannabis in the blood (stored for 30 days in fat) and they have to have a lot more alcohol than a person without cannabis to feel the same effects. Hence the consumption of spirits ...
A new year is beginning. Let us continue, let us intensify our fight against the curse of drugs. Our children must be able to go about their business, to study, to have fun, to travel without being the prey of those who only want to destroy them. Let us go on tirelessly giving them arguments to refuse drugs. Let us help them by refusing it ourselves. Let us not accept being prescribed sleeping pills, antidepressants, stimulants because our difficulties, real and painful as they are today, will have passed in a few months. Let us be an example for them. Nothing can be stronger to them than the value of example. Let us not fear a few nights without sleep, jetlag, and face the truth, for truth alone will never die. One day or another the truth will be told. We have the strength to do it for the sake of our children. We all know that nothing is acquired without daily effort. To ascend a mountain summit is a great pleasure. Our youth is not mistaken, they strive for this: to row across the Pacific Ocean, to conquer fear, loneliness, they long for it. To follow the path of effort lifts one's self-esteem, respect and love for one another. This is a nice challenge for each of us.
Marie-Christine d'Welles
What makes our teenager so charming is seeing him changing, his excesses, his vitality, his enthusiasm. If he takes drugs, his joy will disappear and will be replaced by attitudes, which will gradually become so unbearable that we will no longer recognize our own child. He will not recover his joy and the pleasure of being involved in what he likes by taking psychiatric drugs. These poisons will end up damaging his personality, destroying his abilities and reducing to nothing his moral conscience. We have to help him understand that to keep his self-esteem, the first step is a life without drugs.
Marie-Christine d’Welles
Parents have to help their children find an internal balance and to acquire autonomy to make their own decisions. If our children are hesitant or confused, it is proof that they need us. If they sometimes get lost along the difficult path to becoming autonomous, it is proof that they still are teenagers. They must be able to lean on our confidence in them and on our love. The aim is that one day each of them will become fully responsible for him or herself and will live happy in the respect of all human beings.
Marie-Christine d'Welles
An anti-tobacco campaign, complete with miracle cures, has been invading France. You or your children, your parents and friends may have discussed the pros and cons of the serious information being circulated. We all understand that those "criminal" smokers will be punished at last. Phew! I have even heard that a brand new miracle pill will be on the market that replaces cigarettes during working hours. This new product, made in an excellent laboratory, unfortunately cannot be given to those under 18 years old, because, as they say, its side effects are numerous and terrifying. But do not worry, soon another great pill, Rimonabant which is for the treatment of obesity will be given to our teenagers. Its undesirable side effects include anxiety, depression, nausea, vertigo and so on. A women's magazine tells me this great step forward in pharmacology will counter all the effects of cannabis! I'm not so sure...
Marie-Christine d'Welles
All parents who have children who use drugs can attest that they are sad, they have lost the drive to work hard, their goodwill and because of their mistakes, their self-esteem.
So why does my child take drugs, you ask.
Because, even if tomorrow will be difficult, for an instant drugs will satisfy all his desires. The price to be paid by him to rediscover happiness within himself is fraught with consequences: he must take drugs again.
The way out of it will be long and painful and will require, believe it or not, effort and goodwill. Let us listen to the moving testimonies of those who have been trapped and who have gone down this slippery slope, which goes from an artificial paradise to the hell of drugs. Abstinence is the only way out but it is long and painful one.
With the family, let us repeat this short phrase, which was spoken loudly and clearly by a 7th grade pupil in front of his class. "I think it is easier to never take any than it is to stop."
Marie-Christine d'Welles
de Marie-Christine d'Welles, Published by Jean-Cyrille Godefroy, Septembre 2013.
This book is a wonderful educational tool, accessible for all.
This book provides objective and scientific information to find data, arguments and essential information on drugs. It provides all parents and adolescents, abstainers or users with reliable and scientific information.
This text is the best current support to communication on the subject within the family.
de Serge Lebigot, éditions Salvator, octobre 2013.
Régulièrement, la question de la légalisation du cannabis revient au devant de la scène, déclenchant des polémiques forcenées.Mais la plupart du temps, on en vient toujours à nier ou minimiser les effets de cette drogue, qui ne sont pas anodins. Avec conviction et à l'aide de nombreux témoignages, Serge Lebigot s'insurge contre cette illusion dangereuse.
Il explique avec pédagogie aux éducateurs et parents combien cette herbe peut nuire à la santé de nos jeunes...
by Marie-Christine d'Welles, published by Presses de la Renaissance
Far from a sociological and psychological analysis of the world of drugs, this book reveals in the raw manner that young people use to express it themselves, how they feel in the face of omnipresent drugs. Be they in 8th grade or their final year of high school, they have agreed to talk frankly. It is important to listen to what they have to say. Marie-Christine d'Welles, at the request of the young people, is writing their story so that their parents will know what they are going through. It is an excellent occasion to talk to them about it.
by Marie-Christine d'Welles, published by Presses de la Renaissance
In her ongoing fight against drugs, Marie-Christine d'Welles has met more than 200 000 young people during her seminars throughout France. She has understood that they all want one thing for themselves and for those whom they love: happiness.
Thus she has gone in search people who, by how they live, by their profession, by their hobbies, etc, seem to possess it or to know how to give it. Starting from a reflection on what provides her with happiness, she has met people as different as a roofer, a violin-maker, a photographer and so on.
de Claude Olievenstein, Editions Odile Jacob, octobre 2000.
Trente ans que le célèbre médecin C. Olievenstein accompagne des toxicomanes et les aide à " décrocher ". Dans cet ouvrage, il nous parle de son travail, de ses rencontres, de l'évolution de la toxicomanie et de sa prise en charge. Il offre notamment un regard très critique sur les politiques de traitement à base de substitution, qui ne résolvent selon lui en rien le problème de la toxicomanie.
by Guy Gilbert, published by J'ai Lu, February 2001
"Crack the heart of a man and you will always find a sun". This arabic proverb is a rule of conduct for Guy Gilbert. His confidence in young people never fails. Whether they are drug addicts, victims of society and of violence, delinquents in the suburbs already incarcerated or becoming “savages”. For no person is lost, no one is irredeemable.
We notice that many parents want more and more information on the products, the exact consequences of their consumption...They would like to see pictures, to understand how drugs affect the body, their exact impact on the brain – (as if the human being is nothing but a brain, as some would have us believe)... This intellectual approach would be totally legitimate were it not for its consequences: we get drowned in the details and pushed further away from our objective of prevention.
To teach our children how to refuse drugs we have to tell them the truth. To get our child or teenager or young adult to listen to us, parents, and believe what we have to tell them, we have to be trusted by them. Nowadays they are bombarded by contradictory pieces of information through advertising, media and so on. So why would our child listen to us and what is more, believe us?
A baby in his mother's arms moves us. A teenager who commits suicide is a news item for the tabloids, but a catastrophe for his parents.
Between those two moments there is often the consumption of psychotropic drugs.
Since the creation of Enfance Sans Drogue nearly 15 years ago, we have acquired a very good knowledge of the "terrain". Indeed, we have received many testimonies from parents and young people about the consequences of using drugs and on the motivations of teenagers to take drugs.
Self-esteem is not a vainglorious title that attracts esteem from others. It does not show itself in loud boastful celebrations of the ambitious. Unlike the elite values bought through privileges, relationships, publicity, lies, twists and embezzlements, it is a quiet and personal feeling.
Those who take drugs know this and the drug-addict even more so. They have lost their self-esteem.
Everyone who has been a victim of drugs thought drugs couldn't touch them. But because the drugs market is targeted at them, most of the information that surrounds them is false. This misinformation comes from people who sell drugs or who use them and promote them either to justify their behavior or for financial gain.
In France, 50% of youth aged 15 to 19 regularly consume psychotropic drugs, such as cannabis, poppers, tranquillizers, amphetamines, antidepressants, benzodiazepines, cocaine and so on. It is the highest level of consumption in Europe and the percentage of suicide amongst those aged 14 to 24 is the highest in the world! We can say that this is a real scam, collaborated by and with the connivance of, to a greater or lesser extent, health professionals and many parents.
Our children are ill because they take drugs and we are told that they take drugs because they are ill.
This is a new phenomena. Young people are consuming alcohol in greater and greater quantities to enhance the effect of the drug. Alcohol can be called a potentializer.
How do people die because of drugs?
SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !
This is the phenomenon of "releasing". When one consumes cannabis, THC enters the blood circulation and provokes effects that are later sought by the user. THC is stored in the body fats from where it is released in case of stress or fear. Many road accidents can be explained this way.
Malaise, depression and suicide are very often the consequences of consuming psychotropic drugs. It is estimated that the number of today's high school pupils consuming drugs occasionally is 70%. Most of them feel unwell because of drugs. During a consultation, a doctor should ask his patient if he uses drugs. His depression, his feeling unwell will be explained by their consumption. Instead of prescribing antidepressants or any other legal drugs, the doctor should advise his patient that he should begin by stopping his drug consumption.
If antidepressants, benzodiazepines or sleeping pills are added, the consumer will obviously be more drugged and he will feel worse and worse until he finds himself in a serious depression or at the psychiatrist's. This is what is happening more and more often today.
We more and more often hear about aggression amongst youth, of physical and verbal violence inside families, schools, society... Drugs provoke violence.
Enfance Sans Drogue demands that there is systematic research into illegal and legal drugs carried out in every case of aggression between youths or other individuals, as well as in suicide attempts and suicides, in order to enhance the link between violence and drug consumption.
The publishing of the results will enable us to be fully aware of the situation in our country.
In is enough no longer use drugs in order to be healed.
It is not an illness, nor is it inevitable.
Only abstinence should be prescribed.
No psychotropic drugs' effect is predictable and the stimulant, sedative and hallucinogenic effects of these products depend on the strength of the dose and the sensibility of each person. They all have multiple physical and mental effects which are unpredictable and dangerous, which the manufacturers call "secondary effects".
C'est quoi la drogue? by Marie-Christine d'Welles
Vitamins and minerals are as necessary to the body as water and food.
Drugs very rapidly burn a high number of vitamins and minerals. Hence those who take drugs have more difficulties in fighting against infections and other illnesses.
Drug-addicts often suffer from cramps because they do not have enough minerals.
Minerals are found in food and water, but drug consumers rapidly need them in high quantities.
They can be helped by being given vitamins and natural minerals.
Self harm is increasing and follows the curve of psychotropic drug use.
It is one of the many side effects of legal and illegal drugs.
This is a new phenomenon. In order to increase the effects of drugs, youth consume more and more alcohol. Hence one could say that alcohol is a potentializer.
Alcohol is legal and accepted by parents. Young people are easily able to display bottles of alcohol while simultaneously hiding their consumption of drugs. Then the majority of parents think that youth consume a lot of alcohol. This is true but they do not know that most of the time, youth consume both alcohol and cannabis or alcohol and other drugs.
Dr Chamayou, an author of a PhD thesis called "The Dangers of Hashish: the last discoveries in science" quotes: "If a rat is given cannabis, he starts drinking alcohol, whereas without cannabis, he will not drink any."
Cannabis is a gateway to a high consumption of alcohol.
The lastest reports from the Observatoire Français des Drogues et des Toxicomanies (OFDT) have shown that France was amongst the countries which consumed the most narcotics in Europe. It is imperative that this behavior, which has grave consequences and mostly affects youth aged from 12 to 25 – (who make up 69% of daily users), should have an appropriate response.
Poppers are very prevalent in highschools.
These young people, male and female, do not know they put their life in great danger and cause their organs -brain, liver, lungs, heart, kidneys...- to age prematurely.
Moreover numerous cases are reported of lasting visual loss due to degradation of the photoreceptive cells of the retina. See article Poppers
Physicians are the first witnesses of drug addiction (See: News or Did you know sections)
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)
AEROSOLS Nitrous oxide and other pressurized gases such as those contained in whipped cream canisters or computer anti-dust sprays also have hallucinogenic effects. In a few seconds they produce excitement, dizziness, euphoria, loss of consciousness and affect the central nervous system through lack of oxygen. Moreover they are inhaled under pressure and can provoke lung frostbite and vocal chords injuries, (eg. immediately after taking this drug the voice becomes lower.)
POPPERS Volatile nitrites have similar effects to nitrous oxide. Moreover they can provoke panic attacks, heart palpitations and headaches. They are also responsible for deaths by anoxia. They are vasodilators frequently used to relax sphincter muscles. They are carcinogenic and provoke serious immune deficiencies – such as AIDS.
STAIN REMOVER Stain removers are derived from ethylene. They are hallucinogenic but their effect is more calming, unlike poppers and aerosols, which are more stimulating. They cause damage that is neurological (deafness, tremor) and intellectual (dementia).
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.
When you consume alcohol and cannabis simultaneously, these products mutually increase their effects. The current practice is to use alcohol and cannabis at the same time. Many young people nowadays use this common method to try to get “stoned”.
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