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Friday, 11 July 2008
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Acne Scar Removal
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Friday, 4 July 2008
Stretch Mark Removal
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Sunday, 29 June 2008
Remove wrinkles, stretch marks and scars with a Derma Roller
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008
Cocaine and the Destruction of the Rainforests
Cocaine and the Destruction of the Rainforests
The negative impact of illegal drugs including social problems, health problems and financial problems are well-publicised and often felt more keenly because they are close to home. But fewer people, especially those whose lifestyles embrace using illegal drugs, are inclined to view the bigger picture, part of which is the devastating effect of coca, opium and marijuana production on one of the world’s most precious resources the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, covering areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru.
This rich and precious natural resource is known as the “Lungs of our Planet”, with more than 20 percent of the world’s oxygen being produced in the Amazon Rainforest. Over half of the world’s estimated 10 million species of plants, animals and insects live in the tropical rainforests and more than 25 percent of the active ingredients found in modern cancer-fighting drugs come from organisms found only in the rainforest. Twenty percent of the globe’s fresh water is found in the Amazon Basin.
That is the good news. The bad news is that man is systematically destroying it, through, amongst other things, production of illicit drugs which is causing mass de-forestation, pollution of waterways, erosion and global climate change.
It is estimated that plantations in the Peruvian Amazon have increased sevenfold during the last 15 years, with coca plants being the largest crop under cultivation to meet the increasing demand for cocaine in Europe and the USA.
Over the past twenty years, approximately 5.9 million acres of rain forest have been lost to drug production fields in the Andean regions of Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. To make just one gram of cocaine requires almost 300 grams of dried coca leaves.
To produce a 2.5 acre crop of coca plants, approximately 10 acres of forest must be cleared or burned (how’s that for a carbon footprint), causing air pollution, loss of habitat to thousands of plant and animal species, and soil erosion. The award-winning scientist and expert in biodiversity, Dr Edward O. Wilson, estimates that 50,000 animal and plant species per year are being lost to deforestation.
Deforestation aside, the chemical byproducts of cocaine production have resulted in a staggering estimated 14,800 tons of chemical waste being disposed of in the Amazon River Basin every year. According to one study of cocaine production in Bolivia undertaken by the US Drug Enforcement Administration, just one kilo of cocaine base required three litres of concentrated sulfuric acid, ten kilos of lime, up to 80 litres of kerosene, 200 grams of potassium permanganate and one litre of concentrated ammonia.
Annually, according to Peruvian forest engineer Marc J. Dourojeanni, coca growers dump 15 million gallons of kerosene, 8 million gallons of sulphuric acid, 1.6 million gallons of acetone, 1.6 million gallons of the solvent toluene, 16,000 tons of lime and 3,200 tons of carbide into the valley’s watershed.
In addition to this hazardous chemical waste, herbicide spraying to destroy coca fields in the war against drugs is having the undesired effect of driving growers and traffickers out of their usual territory and further into the jungle into National Park areas to escape authorities and set up more plantations without detection. Even worse, indigenous leaders claim that local farmers and their families are dying or becoming sick as a result of polluted water sources.
It is projected that the rainforest could be all but destroyed within forty years and in spite of the appalling human costs from production through to consumer, the demand for cocaine in Europe and the US continues to increase. In conclusion, whilst those who are using drugs often perceive an immediate present benefit from drug-taking, ultimately the cost will be borne in future by our children’s children - a very high price to pay for living in the moment.
Friday, 11 April 2008
Home Drug Tests
Home Drug Tests
Home drug tests can be a lifeline to parents who feel their child or teenager may be taking drugs but who are frightened initially to seek help. The internet now provides parents with a means of obtaining information and advice about drug use anonymously, and this anonymity can be preserved a stage further by using home drug testing to ascertain whether or not their child requires professional help.
In the NHS report ‘Statistics of Drug Misuse and Young People: England 2006’, 19 percent (one in five) of secondary school children claimed to have taken drugs within the last year in 2005. 4 percent of 11 year old children had sniffed a volatile substance and 1 percent had tried cannabis. In children aged 15, 27 percent had taken cannabis.
A disturbing 4 percent of secondary school children in 2005 admitted to having used a Class A drug in the last year (cocaine, crack, ecstasy, amphetamines when injected, heroin, LSD, magic mushrooms and methadone). 12 percent claimed to have used cannabis, currently a Class C drug.
With these statistics in mind, it is only natural for parents to be concerned about their son or daughter taking drugs, and the negative impact of this on their lives, from poor school performance, social / behavioural problems and severe health risks to the simple and frightening fact that they are breaking the law.
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 states that it is an offence to unlawfully possess or supply a controlled drug, even if the drug is supplied free of charge rather than the traditional ‘dealing’ whereby drugs are exchanged for money.
The penalties for dealing in a Class A drug can incur a sentence in prison of up to life. Possessing a Class A drug such as cocaine, ecstasy or heroin is up to seven years imprisonment or an unlimited fine, or both. Dealing in a Class C drug such as cannabis currently carries a penalty of up to 14 years or an unlimited fine, or both. Possessing Cannabis can result in a prison sentence of up to two years or an unlimited fine, or both.
Results from an ICM Research poll which previously appeared in the News of the World on Sunday demonstrated that 82% of parents and 66% of children support drug testing in schools and of the 1,000 parents surveyed, 96% said they would want to know if their son or daughter was taking drugs. Unfortunately, few schools are yet signed up to testing pupils and many young people remain vulnerable to exposure to drugs with no formal programme to identify problems.
Home drug testing can offer parents the opportunity to test their child in the privacy of their own home as an initial step to determining if their child is at risk. The simple knowledge that a testing programme is in place at home can be an effective deterrent for recreational drugs use, plain old curiosity or peer pressure to share drugs handed out amongst friends.
A negative home drugs test result will bring peace of mind to anxious parents and if a home drugs test is positive, parents are forewarned and forearmed with the information to seek confidential, professional help from a doctor or a drug treatment centre.
In the NHS report ‘Statistics of Drug Misuse and Young People: England 2006’, 19 percent (one in five) of secondary school children claimed to have taken drugs within the last year in 2005. 4 percent of 11 year old children had sniffed a volatile substance and 1 percent had tried cannabis. In children aged 15, 27 percent had taken cannabis.
A disturbing 4 percent of secondary school children in 2005 admitted to having used a Class A drug in the last year (cocaine, crack, ecstasy, amphetamines when injected, heroin, LSD, magic mushrooms and methadone). 12 percent claimed to have used cannabis, currently a Class C drug.
With these statistics in mind, it is only natural for parents to be concerned about their son or daughter taking drugs, and the negative impact of this on their lives, from poor school performance, social / behavioural problems and severe health risks to the simple and frightening fact that they are breaking the law.
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 states that it is an offence to unlawfully possess or supply a controlled drug, even if the drug is supplied free of charge rather than the traditional ‘dealing’ whereby drugs are exchanged for money.
The penalties for dealing in a Class A drug can incur a sentence in prison of up to life. Possessing a Class A drug such as cocaine, ecstasy or heroin is up to seven years imprisonment or an unlimited fine, or both. Dealing in a Class C drug such as cannabis currently carries a penalty of up to 14 years or an unlimited fine, or both. Possessing Cannabis can result in a prison sentence of up to two years or an unlimited fine, or both.
Results from an ICM Research poll which previously appeared in the News of the World on Sunday demonstrated that 82% of parents and 66% of children support drug testing in schools and of the 1,000 parents surveyed, 96% said they would want to know if their son or daughter was taking drugs. Unfortunately, few schools are yet signed up to testing pupils and many young people remain vulnerable to exposure to drugs with no formal programme to identify problems.
Home drug testing can offer parents the opportunity to test their child in the privacy of their own home as an initial step to determining if their child is at risk. The simple knowledge that a testing programme is in place at home can be an effective deterrent for recreational drugs use, plain old curiosity or peer pressure to share drugs handed out amongst friends.
A negative home drugs test result will bring peace of mind to anxious parents and if a home drugs test is positive, parents are forewarned and forearmed with the information to seek confidential, professional help from a doctor or a drug treatment centre.
Wednesday, 27 February 2008
Should parents drug test their children?
Should parents drug test their children? Christopher Evans of http://www.drug-aware.com was interviewed live on BBC Three Counties Radio to find out. Is home drug testing for teens / teenagers a good idea?
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