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How do people die because of drugs?

SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !

Reports show that the rate of suicide in France is one of the highest in the European Union. France has the highest rate of suicides amongst youth aged from 15 to 24. Suicide is the primary cause of death in this group. [...]
Extract of a letter of the French Prime Minister (Jean-Pierre Raffarin) to the Minister of Health (Christine Boutin) on April 17th 2003.

In 2008 our country still had the highest rate of suicide of people aged from 15 to 24 in the European Union!

Let us not forget that suicide is most of the time a consequence of drug taking, legal or illegal.

 

How do people die because of drugs?

 

SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE ! SUICIDE !


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Quiz

Are there pills to stop drugs ?

  • Yes
  • No

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Drugs are not a disease. The best way to stop them is not to take any. Heroin addicts who achieved withdraw admit that complete abstinence is the only solution. They say it themselves : it is more difficult to withdraw from Subutex (substitution drugs) than from heroin…

Are our physicians concerned by drug addiction ?

  • Yes
  • No

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Physicians are the first witnesses of drug addiction (See: News or Did you know sections)

Is consumption of cannabis traceable in the body one week after consuming ?

  • Yes
  • No

ouiThe half-life of an active substance is the time required by a healthy body, with no previous drug use, to eliminate 50% of the absorbed substance. In the case of cannabis, the half-life is 96 hours or 4 days. This means that within 4 days the body has eliminated 50% of the initial dose. 4 days later, there will be 25% of the product left… Within 28 days, cannabis will be totally eliminated from the body of a person who has not consumed it regularly. Traces of decayed THC may be found in a regular consumer’s body up to 40 days after the last take. According to Dr Chamayou’s thesis, 18 months are needed to be completely cleared of cannabis.

Does alcohol mixed with cannabis have harmful effects?

  • Yes
  • No

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 When you consume alcohol and cannabis simultaneously, these products mutually increase their effects. The current practice is to use alcohol and cannabis at the same time. Many young people nowadays use this common method to try to get “stoned”.

Would you lend your car to your child knowing that he/she cannot drive ?

  • Yes
  • No

non

No parent would lend his car to his child knowing he/she has not learnt to drive. It would also be unconscionable to let one’s teenager go out without having taught him/her what drugs are. Nowadays availability of these products is such that youth can procure them in all the places they frequent – educational establishments, parties, class dinners, rallies, sport clubs... Parents must inform themselves objectively and scientifically about the products so to educate their children on drugs and provide them with the arguments to refuse them. Let us remember that drug addiction doesn’t just happen to others!