chem1st Posted July 13, 2012 Share Posted July 13, 2012 Water is a gateway drug. 100% of heroin and crack addicts started using water FIRST. Do not give your children water. - Xbox and PS3 seem to be far more addictive than both alcohol and cannabis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 The difference lays in responsible use of alcohol because when you are intoxicated you are more susseptable to drug use. I think that's what the study proves. I don't think it even considered looking at such an effect. It's talking about the long term substance abuse habits of people and linking this to whether they started drinking at an age earlier than 21. It isn't looking at whether people who are drunk try drugs when in that state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 If you want your kids to stay away from drugs, then you might want to keep teenagers off alcohol because a new study says that long term drug abuse is likely to occur due to alcohol, not marijuana, use. The present study included data on more than 14,500 high-school students from 120 schools across U.S. The data was obtained from Monitoring the Future study. Researchers analyzed the data to find out what substances were being tried by students. They checked for use of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, LSD, amphetamines, tranquilizers and other narcotics. Alcohol was the first substance to be tried by students, the results showed. http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120711/10771/alcohol-addiction-marijuana-drugs.htm Kids will do what kids do, if you have children and know everything they do when they go out, you must be the only one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Kids will do what kids do, if you have children and know everything they do when they go out, you must be the only one. I'm not sure that's a good argument for complacency. In fact I'm sure it's not. Kids will push the boundaries that parents set, it's part of growing up, but that doesn't mean that the boundaries shouldn't be there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 I'm not sure that's a good argument for complacency. In fact I'm sure it's not. Kids will push the boundaries that parents set, it's part of growing up, but that doesn't mean that the boundaries shouldn't be there. If you have children , do you have them on a tight rein then. Did you do exactly what your parents told you to do ?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted July 14, 2012 Share Posted July 14, 2012 Do you have a point to make? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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