I’m a critical care RN of 28 years and still practicing in the great state of Virginia. I have a burning hatred of the ruin of what the drug culture has done to countless lives! Yeah...smarter more careful folks sometimes get around the laws of averages and never let the drugs control them...but there are many more who have been caught up in drug addiction,(pot was usually the first drug...though some could argue tobacco) who have ultimately wasted their lives and have died young! Alcohol seems to get a free pass but it I think alcohol is much more destructive to far more folks than even pot is. “Wine is a mocker, and strong drink a brawler” according to Proverbs and I’ve spent many a 12 hour shift trying to detox alcoholic and drug abusers safely as they went thru DT’s, “the shakes”, da joneses” or what ever else you want to call it.
When you’ve faced down an naked angry psychotic patient bloodied from the urinary catheter he’s managed to pull out of himself while waving his private parts (spurting blood) around yelling....”yeah come and get some”...then one starts to come to certain hardened conclusions as to what the drug and alcohol culture is really all about!
It will read:
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Section 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all the territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited.
Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission here to the States by the Congress.
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What say you? Support it, or reject it?
With all due respect, you've been immersed in the worst of the worst addicts for 28 years. It is not exactly representative of what the "drug and alcohol culture" is about. If I go through life having a glass of red wine with my prime rib on Friday nights, I may be part of the "drug and alcohol culture" but I'm probably not going to wind up in your facility.
What are you complaining about! I pay for this sort of treatment from escorts!
I looked up some images of the human brain on Yahoo and came across one that belonged to a VERY heavy drinker. It was so bad that I recoiled in horror when I saw it. It looked like it had been dropped on the floor and kicked around or punted like a football. It was discolored and the veins were purple.
I’ve never really understood the appeal of alcohol. I used to have a drink now and then but I stopped because of the meds I take.
These college students who get drunk to the point of passing out are really asking for it.