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RE: It would seem I am addicted, but don't necessarily feel like it.
10/2/2008 11:09:43 AM truesailor
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Jess55 is right about the prescription drugs being just as dangerous as street drugs. they're just as addictiong and not only could they lead to a street drug addiction but, this is a very new addiction. Doctors dont know exactly how to treat it and what to expect. There arent many treatment centers made specifically for this as there is narcotics and alcohol. Dont get caught up in a mess like this. It seems to me that you can find a way out of it pretty easy, you just need some more fun in your life. And thats manageable. Get away from all these drugs as soon as you can, dont give them a chance to take over you.
RE: 16 years and counting
10/2/2008 11:13:13 AM truesailor
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I think kids are a real miracle. Many addicts have changed their whole lives around just to make sure they give their kids a good life. And I think that is really amazing.
RE: Saying no
10/2/2008 11:23:25 AM truesailor
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I think its fine to just admit that you dont drink. I'm sure people will be like"what? comeon you have to" and things like that but after offering you a few times they'll stop. And they'll understand.
RE: Re: Telling other people
10/2/2008 11:25:45 AM truesailor
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ofcourse its going to be hard it always is. Whether your telling your family about a big decision youve made or admitting a drug addiction its going to be hard. But its something that needs to be done and everyone should get up the courage to do it. Its a big step towards sobriety.
RE: Sexy Clothes Will Damage Your Children
10/2/2008 11:49:25 AM truesailor
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It doesn't look right for kids to wear sexy clothes and clothes resemble a lot of a persons personality. If your child is wearing slutty clothes what if she grows up and behaves that way. children should just dress like children.
RE: Alcoholic mothers on the rise!
10/2/2008 11:56:11 AM truesailor
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I think a video should be shown to every newly pregnant woman about how alochol can damage her baby. Not just make it a little sick but have a life time disease. It's so sad to see some of these kids who could've lived a normal life instead have diseases given to them by their mothers selfishness. 
RE: Do the Drink Not the Drug
10/2/2008 12:00:00 PM truesailor
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I go to a hookah bar every once in a while with my friends. If I drink an energy drink and smoke hookah, even though tis just tobacco and not laced with anythign and is perfectly fine, I feel as if I'm drunk. I think its just big amount of caffeine in my body mixed with the lightheadedness that hooka gives you. But its better for me because I dont have to go drink and get drunk or do drugs to have fun. I'm safe, doing nothing wrong, and having jsut as much fun as all the others.

Woman gives 18-month-old beer
10/2/2008 12:02:36 PM truesailor
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So state police arrested this woman/prostitute/drug dealer who also filled her 18 month old daughter’s sippy cup with beer! Undercover cops came to this 21 year olds house to buy drugs from her and her husband. They saw her give the baby a sip of beer from a can and then fill up her sippy cup with it to get the toddler to sleep. The undercover agents bought heroin and marijuana at the home on three separate occasions, the mother also offered twice to have sex with them for $100.
Virginia Neel-Blaker was charged with prostitution, child abuse, distribution of marijuana and two counts of conspiracy to traffic heroin. Her husband James Blaker, 37, was charged with three counts of trafficking heroin, distribution of marijuana and two counts of conspiray to traffic heroin.
I really don’t think any drug dealer should have kids, that’s a completely selfish thing for them to do. Their minds aren’t stable and if it was like this case they’re making their kids alcoholics by the time they’re 5!
RE: Trafficking Chocolate
10/2/2008 12:05:42 PM truesailor
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I hope they win their case and get lots of money out of it!! Thats terrible!!  
RE: Stealing from God
10/2/2008 12:10:08 PM truesailor
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Thats seriously so bad though. I get scared to cuss in a church I cant imagine actually stealing from one. Hoe does he not feel guilty? And the church loses all that stuff too. It's not like they make a whole bunch of money! Maybe thats why his life was so terrible because he was stealing from church!!!!
RE: Goodmorning breakfast surprise!
10/2/2008 12:16:51 PM truesailor
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Worst Omelet-IHop Big Steak Omelet
    Calorie equivalent: More than seven glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts


 


Omgosh!! I would definately be able to eat that whole omelete and not think anything of it, but when someone tells me I dare you to eat seven glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts I wouldn't do it at all!!! But them being the same amount of calories! thats crazy!!!

RE: When Food is A Drug
10/2/2008 12:23:12 PM truesailor
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I researched this and saw this guy. He's not even fat at all!!! he has long hair and when they asked him when he'll ever stop eating big macs he said his wife said all this wll stop when she'l have to start putting it in a blender! I dont understand how he could not get sick of them though.
RE: my addiction
10/2/2008 12:28:45 PM truesailor
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I always eat chocoalte bars when I'm stressed out. So espeically during finals and midterms I'll go buy chocolate bar after chocolate bar and cookies and just so much of that yummy sweet junkfood! But i'll eat so much of it and at the end of the month my weight gain is so completely noticable.. I like your idea of having to walk an extra mile to get your soda, I should do that with my chocolate.
RE: Girls Selling Virginities
10/2/2008 1:06:15 PM truesailor
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Thats crazy! I would never do that! I wonder if they think about God while they do this.


you know what it kind of reminds me of. Have any of you ever seen that movie Geisha? Well the Geisha's would sell their virginities, I read the book and it was so gross because this guy that would always buy the Geishas virginity's would save the blood in a little vial!!

RE: Living With a Sex Addict??
10/2/2008 1:13:36 PM truesailor
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HustleTrees said: Even sex addicts have a sober date, but it's something that they define themselves.  It could be forbidding themselves to masturbate to pornography, view pornographic materials/movies, or having sex with strangers or prostitutes.  And if they're using the twelve step system, usually it's not appropriate to date anyone until you've been in recovery for a year.  But it is healthy to have a healthy sexual relationship with a partner after a sex addict has complete control of their recovery.


There was an episode in desperate housewives where a guy that Bree was dating was a former sex addict. She tried kissing him and he just kept backing away and told her about his addiction. she accepted it and accepted not havng sex with him, but I guess he was such a bad sex addict that he didn't even care whether it was a boy or a girl. So when Brees son tried breaking them up he made a move on the guy and the guy went for it. I think an addict must be completely completely recovered to where sex rarely crosses his mind for them to get into a relationship.


 

RE: New Cigarette Warnings
10/2/2008 1:27:12 PM truesailor
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I went to Jordan for the summer and like 95% of the country smokes. They smoke everywhere in doors outdoors, even in elevators. And theres imported ciggarets and middle eastern ones. On the middle eastern ones it has a pic of healthy lungs, then one of bad lungs and has smoking kills on it. Or a picture of a guy that has one of those air things, and a whole phrase of how smoking kills. And in the bathrooms where the airdryer is theres a little video that plays of a cartoon character and how he smokes and then he tries to get away from it and cigg boxes keep falling down on him and hes getting hurt by cigarettes. I think thats really good that they do that and it could've stopped lots of smokers. The country tries really hard to get its citizens to stop smoking but its really hard.
RE: Marijuana may be legal SOON!
10/2/2008 1:29:13 PM truesailor
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Right now if a cop catches you with weed and you have a medical card, how can a cop tell whether its real or not? I'm sure many people could just get a fake one.
RE: Heather Locklear Arrested for Presciption Drugs
10/2/2008 1:34:36 PM truesailor
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I think its so sad when anyone goes through addiction lke this especially when they have a family. But tis probably especially hard for celebrities because not only do they havetheir families and all of that to worry about but they also have the tabloids printing out their business everywhere. That just makes it more and more hard for them to stay clean.
Troy and Alana Pack foundation
10/2/2008 1:37:01 PM truesailor
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After loosing his 7 and 10-year old children by a driver who was under the influence of perscription drugs obtained from multiple doctors. Bob Pack created the Troy and Alana Pack foundation. He’s been working with Attorney General Brown and what they’re trying to do is provide doctors and pharmacies with real-time internet access to patient prescription drug histories. Health professionals would have computer access to the drug histories of patients which replaces the current outdated system that required mailing or faxing written requests for information.
Addicts go doctor shopping all the time. An example of one is Frankie Greer, 53, he visited 183 doctos and 47 pharmacies to feed a prescription drug habit that included some of the most dangerous painkillerss in lehtal combinations. Over a one year period he got prescribed over 4,830 hydrocodone tablets, 2,210 oxycodone tablets, 156 oxycontin and a variety of addictive painkillers. And there are many other abusers such as this. Even I can name a few. 
This not only keeps feeding more and more addicts but also costing the state millions, and causing serious public safety consequences. I think it would be really great if they develop a system like this. It’s needed.
RE: Re: Smokers in Movies
10/2/2008 2:39:22 PM truesailor
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natallya said: Didn't they start putting warning clips before videos that include smoking now or something like that? I think there might be a similar post to this in the smoking section that I read. I'm not really sure though if that clip will make people look at smoking in the movies a different way or stop the subliminal messaging.
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Having smoking in a movie iesn't really a subliminal message though. Those are illegal. Did they start putting warning clips before videos that include smoking? The last movie I saw that had a smoker in it was My Bestfriends Girl, they didn't put up anything though. I dont think if they did either that it would matter much. Its just the image of the "cool" celebrity smoking that could bring out the wrong idea to kids and teenagers.

RE: How long can you go without watching TV?
10/2/2008 2:41:05 PM truesailor
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I dont really watch TV, even when I'm home. But there are just 2 shows that I'll schedule my whoe week around for. I cant miss my desperate housewives or Greys anatomy.
RE: so unhygienic
10/2/2008 2:47:25 PM truesailor
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We were talking in my polictial science class and the government is now having the teachers teach their elementary classes for how to stay clean. The proper way to brush your teeth and wash your body, how often all of that. and teachrs in elementary school are complaining because they are still expected to teach everything in their curriculum, and its kind of hard to take so much time teaching them to do things such as staying clean because their parents cant teach them, and also teach english history, math science, and p.e. but I think this is wrong, the parents should be the ones teaching their children to not be stinky
RE: Re: My Ex-Boyfriend
10/2/2008 5:03:49 PM truesailor
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Wow your story is really one of the craziest that I've ever heard! But what I dont get is how anyone even an addict could be that selfish! I wonder if he ever thinks about how much he hurt you and how messed up of him that was. I'm really sorry you had to go through that, maybe that happened for a reason to make you realise that you deserve a million times better. And sometimes it takes big things to show us that.
insomnia is bad for kids
10/2/2008 5:04:35 PM truesailor
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I was reading an article that talked about how insomnia in adolescents can have some big effects when they get older. They increase the risk of developing mental health problems and also increase te seerity of these problems. Results indicated that adolescents who had symptoms of insomnia were 2.3 times more likely to develop depression in early adulthood. They were also much more likely to use alcohol, cannabis, and non-cannabis drugs, and was more likely to suffer from depression, suicide thoughts, and suicide attempts.
This has me kind of worried because my little sister suffers from insomnia and she always has. She’s 10 years old and barely ever sleeps. I fall asleep around 10:00 pm, but if I wake up to use the bathroom I pass by her room and her light is still on. She can never sleep early. She’s such a good and happy kid. Her grades are spectacular she doesn’t even get a B, and she wont ever do anything that’s wrong, she cries when I do. I cant ever imagine her being depressed or caught up with drugs and just thinking about it really bothers me.



 

RE: my hero
10/2/2008 5:14:16 PM truesailor
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My little sister wants to be exactly like me and I dont want that. I've made so many mistakes I dont wanna see her throw her life away like I did. I wanna prevent her from it. Somehow she's apart of my motivation to stay good.

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