Parents, Speak to Your Children About Drugs

YOU have no doubt read much about the dangers of drugs.

How Can I Break Free From Drugs?

Each year an alarming number of young people die from taking drugs.

In a country where we enjoy the benefits of a “free” National Health Service and where many people are living on pills, such tragedies are stark reminders of the dangers of drugs.

A recent survey by the popular motorists’ magazine Drive revealed that one British motorist in seven drives under the influence of drugs.

Why They Turn to Drugs

THERE are no simple answers to why people turn to drugs.

Can the War on Drugs Be Won?

WINNING the war on drugs is a laudable goal, but it is no easy task.

In the United States, some $10 billion a year is spent for drugs to relieve various ailments.

And the use of prescription drugs is predicted to keep on increasing at the rate of 9.5 percent a year.

“DRUGS are like sledgehammers,” points out Dr. Eric Nestler.

“Crack cocaine, for example, has been known to kill people the first time they used it,” explains the book Drugs in America.

However, I was out after thirty days, and was soon back in business “pushing” (selling) drugs.

I needed the money to support my own drug habit, which included all sorts of drugs, particularly LSD.

How Dangerous Really Are Drugs?

ALL drugs are potentially dangerous.

He then prescribed a three-day course of injections for malaria, paracetamol (acetaminophen) to stop the headache, two drugs to ease what may have been a stomach ulcer, tranquilizers for her anxiety, and finally, for good measure, a course of multivitamins.

She left happy, confident that the drugs would solve her problems.

How Can I Say No to Drugs?

“No matter what anyone else does,” Joe continued, “let’s never fool around with drugs.”

How Illicit Drugs Affect Your Life

LIKE the dry rot that eats away the wooden beams of a house, drugs can corrode the whole structure of society.

As more and more young people experiment with drugs, the question of how to recover from drug abuse takes on greater importance.

We publish it to help those who are struggling to break free from drugs.

In addition to continuing developments of new medical techniques, a large number of drugs have been discovered.

In a recent year, some 7,200 drugs and drug combinations were on the market.

Why Say No to Drugs?

Mike and Ann are reaping the consequences of a decision they made when they were quite young​—to experiment with drugs.​—Galatians 6:7.

Today far too many youths have taken to dangerous drugs and narcotics.

The drugs offered by “friends” at school may also represent a step toward personal destruction.

The challenge many parents have had to face on the increasing use of drugs by their children is shown by a teen-age son who protests: “Alcohol and coffee are the choice of your generation; drugs are the choice of my generation.

Perhaps our story can help others who are enslaved to drugs, but who want to free themselves and live useful lives.

When I think back to when we were teen-agers on drugs, I am appalled at some of the lurid things that infected our existence, for that is what it was, merely an existence.

YOU personally may not misuse drugs.

A driver “high” on drugs may ram into you on the highway.

In this quest I became involved in drugs and sex worship.

“Sure I tried drugs​—every one on the market.

Drugs​—Dangerous and Deadly

DRUGS​—substances that affect the senses—​have a history that goes back to the earliest days of mankind.

Drugs: How Dangerous Really Are They?

What is happening in regard to drugs has experts shaking their heads in disbelief.

In an attempt to find answers I began taking psychedelic drugs, to open my mind and gain insight.

After taking the drugs, I would be drawn to a mirror where I peered for long periods of time into the pupils of my eyes.

Drugs​—Is There Any Hope?

Drugs are big business.