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"Don't call drug users Junkies" campaigners say
Daily Mail ^ | 10th January 2018 | Steve Doughty

Posted on 01/11/2018 2:37:46 PM PST by Ennis85

Users of cannabis, cocaine and heroin are victims of discrimination and should no longer be called druggies or junkies, an international drug legalisation pressure group declared yesterday.

It called for an end to negative language for drug users and their habits in order to ensure their human rights are respected.

As part of the drive to persuade people to think differently about drugs, the words addict and even drug user must be thrown out, a report from the Global Commission on Drug Policy said.

It urged newspapers and broadcasters to encourage more positive attitudes by calling a drug user a ‘person who uses drugs’.

Instead of calling someone addicted to heroin a junkie, they should be said to be someone who ‘has a heroin use disorder.’

A recreational drug user should be referred to as a ‘person with non-problematic drug use’ and a former addict should not be described as clean, it said.

Even the word addict itself should go, to be replaced by phrases such as ‘person with substance use disorder’, the report said.

The Commission, launched six years ago by financier George Soros with the aim of legalising drugs, has British members who include former Deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg and Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson.

Publication of its report, Countering Prejudices Against People Who Use Drugs, was Sir Richard’s second intervention in the drugs debate within a week.

Last Friday Sir Richard posted a message on the Virgin website calling restrictive moves on cannabis law by Donald Trump’s administration ‘a throwback to the worst days of the failed war on drugs.’

The Commission report said: ‘Commonly encountered terms such as junkie, drug abuser, and crack head are alienating, and designate people who use drugs as others – morally flawed and inferior individuals.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: addicts; crackheads; dopefiends; dopers; drugaddicts; drugculture; druggies; druglegalisation; drugs; juggalos; junkies; marijuana; newspeak; orwell; pc; pcgonewild; potheadedlycorrect; potheads
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To: Ennis85

Not even the ones who have “a nose like a vacuum cleaner”?


21 posted on 01/11/2018 2:51:46 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Ennis85

Bums ?


22 posted on 01/11/2018 2:52:03 PM PST by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp as)
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To: Ennis85

So “crack ho” becomes “sex worker with a substance use disorder.” That’s a mouthful.


23 posted on 01/11/2018 2:52:16 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Still have your John Keats autographed Grecian urn?


24 posted on 01/11/2018 2:52:44 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: GSWarrior

From Half Baked:(language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dzDb5v744


25 posted on 01/11/2018 2:52:51 PM PST by EEGator
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To: NorthMountain

What’s a Grecian urn?

Oh, so many drachmas a day.


26 posted on 01/11/2018 2:53:21 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

A junkie by any other name is still a junkie.


27 posted on 01/11/2018 2:54:32 PM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Ennis85

also, don’t call an Oprah with no father a bastard


28 posted on 01/11/2018 2:54:53 PM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Ennis85

George Shultz, Commissioner!


29 posted on 01/11/2018 2:55:06 PM PST by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: Ennis85
Commonly encountered terms such as junkie, drug abuser, and crack head are alienating, and designate people who use drugs as others – morally flawed and inferior individuals.

you can evade reality but you cannot avoid the negative consequences of evading reality

30 posted on 01/11/2018 2:55:13 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

What you did there.

I see it.


31 posted on 01/11/2018 2:55:25 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

A junkie person.
Non-gender specific.


32 posted on 01/11/2018 2:56:47 PM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: Leep

A junkx.


33 posted on 01/11/2018 2:57:39 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Ennis85
It urged newspapers and broadcasters to encourage more positive attitudes by calling a drug user a ‘person who uses drugs’.

What if you don't WANT people to have positive attitudes to drug use?

34 posted on 01/11/2018 2:57:51 PM PST by Vanders9
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To: Vanders9

A most honorable Junktor or Junktrix.


35 posted on 01/11/2018 2:58:57 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: freedomlover
". . . Dr Pepper and an old Moon Pie . . ."

You need to return to the fold, RC Cola with peanuts in it an a Moon Pie.

36 posted on 01/11/2018 3:00:50 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Ennis85

addicted = junkie


37 posted on 01/11/2018 3:10:19 PM PST by Parmy
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To: Ennis85

Major Tom is a Junkie!


38 posted on 01/11/2018 3:10:21 PM PST by Renegade
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To: Ennis85

By putting biochemicals that mimic normal brain chemistry, people have sabotaged the normal biochemical processes. This pseudo chemistry, by the way it destroys normal function, is junk to the brain.


39 posted on 01/11/2018 3:10:51 PM PST by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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To: Ennis85
Commonly encountered terms such as junkie, drug abuser, and crack head are alienating...

But being strung out in the hallway of some abandoned flophouse is not alienating?

-PJ

40 posted on 01/11/2018 3:11:48 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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