With the current problems. And meth?
I’ve been done with school for a hot minute now but here (Netherlands) they started in the last years at elementary school, around age 11. And then some more later in highschool roughly age 14.
Elementary was taught by a cop. Mostly sensible stuff and the risks. Nothing weird but like “weed isn’t physically addictive but it can be mentally addictive, also you’re probably smoking it and that ain’t great.” or how xtc is not that dangerous on its own but often there’s junk mixed in. They also told us you can get your xtc tested by the government, anonymously. And yeah you actually don’t get in trouble believe it or not.
I think it worked because they made it so unexciting that most people I know stay away from anything but weed and even then lots of people try it and never do it again.
Dear God, XTC is really addictive - you can feel your senses working overtime!
MDMA is not addictive. Some bullshit bunk your source added to it might be though. Solution: don’t buy bunk from randos.
It was just a dumb joke - Dear God and Senses Working Overtime are songs by the very addictive band XTC.
Oh, they just put “War on drugs” banner and that’s it.
This is what I hate about my country. They only want to be seen like they’re working, instead of actually working.
It’s all aesthetic but no substantial
Generally they don’t really mention it outside special occasions, and then it’s just generally “drugs bad, don’t do drugs”.
I feel like pure demonization is such an easy path to distrust and abuse. For the longest time I didn’t know the difference between even weed and other drugs, just that it was “bad”, weed might as well have been crack. I sure as shit didn’t know the harder drugs make you feel unimaginably good and that this in specific was the danger.
I actually had a bad LSD trip that went worse than it should have due to this demonization, I couldn’t stop thinking of all the times I was told or overheard as a kid that such drugs drive you insane. I knew beforehand what I was doing and what that would entail, but it didn’t matter once I had jumped in, the paranoia from years of growing up hearing such things won.
For sure raise awareness, for sure drive home the notion that certain drugs will fuck your life up, but they need to seriously sit down and explain the nuances between all of them, they need to explain risks and dangers (the real ones, not the propagandist talking points) as well as the effects, they need to compare them to alcohol, tobacco, coffee, hell even food since even that is addictive. People will try stuff, they better try stuff with an informed perspective and know which ones are too much to consider.
They mostly taught me about drug classifications and effects. Not really anything in-depth about addiction
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