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Abuse and today
Mick told us "she was running
for the shelter of mother's little
helper".
Couldn't think of a more sad sight
Only way of coping through the night
My own experience limited
To tea bags in the attic
Nothing was really static
Just gave me a headache
Smoking tea bags just didn't take
Now we know some of the mystics
Look for a spiritual awareness
Herb part of the routine
But for someone not of age
What does taking drugs really mean
Stunted growth maybe?
We can gave warnings all day long
Not much a deterrent
But pointing a finger and saying "wrong"
Doesn't seem to be working
Creates more wonder lust
Another plan is must
And what about the hypocrisy
When stats are released
Deaths involving drunk driving
A most legal addictive beast
So we tell youth they can't smoke
While adults may have legal fixes...
I have no idea how I would handle
Substance abuse if I had kids
One thing for sure
There wouldn't be a lid
On being truthful about it all
Follow the path my parents laid
With sports, music, and my studies
Never saw drugs as an aid
But in my observations in the classroom
I really do find many more absent parents
Can we really be so blind
To people not acting like adults
Expected to nurture these babes
Become society's problems
Oh calamity that is made
for the shelter of mother's little
helper".
Couldn't think of a more sad sight
Only way of coping through the night
My own experience limited
To tea bags in the attic
Nothing was really static
Just gave me a headache
Smoking tea bags just didn't take
Now we know some of the mystics
Look for a spiritual awareness
Herb part of the routine
But for someone not of age
What does taking drugs really mean
Stunted growth maybe?
We can gave warnings all day long
Not much a deterrent
But pointing a finger and saying "wrong"
Doesn't seem to be working
Creates more wonder lust
Another plan is must
And what about the hypocrisy
When stats are released
Deaths involving drunk driving
A most legal addictive beast
So we tell youth they can't smoke
While adults may have legal fixes...
I have no idea how I would handle
Substance abuse if I had kids
One thing for sure
There wouldn't be a lid
On being truthful about it all
Follow the path my parents laid
With sports, music, and my studies
Never saw drugs as an aid
But in my observations in the classroom
I really do find many more absent parents
Can we really be so blind
To people not acting like adults
Expected to nurture these babes
Become society's problems
Oh calamity that is made
Published 2nd May 2012
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2nd May 2012 10:17pm
There is so much truth to this. I don't think many people realize just how much all of this stuff effects others. Especially the drunk driving. I've seen myself what some drugs and stuff do to people. Then political leaders and society tries to fix things by saying what's "legal or not." When it's only illegal for certain ages, it doesn't really help when older people use them, or they use it as a cure for emotions. Great poem.
2nd May 2012 11:40pm
Thank you; so intriguing to look at how different nations handle the same type of issues. I was also thinking about how a young person can go into the military but isn't suppose to be able to drink until 21. My first college roommate was from Germany. He was hardly an alcoholic, especially being a graduate student in physics, and yet he had his first taste of alcohol from his parents when he was 13. Mind you I don't claim to have the answers but I just don't think the US is being very smart.
3rd May 2012 1:39am
You're very welcome. I respect your opinion and totally agree. I'm only 15, and I have no intentions of getting into that kind of stuff. I guess it just really depends on the person, or how they were raised though. I think it's a weird trade-off of the military and drinking comparison, too. Some of these laws need to be re-looked at. Two words: Common sense. :/ Sometimes it seems like people just need to open their eyes.
3rd May 2012 5:39am
Well some laws are simply archaic. For example, until Carol Moseley Braun challenged the US Senate dress code, all female senators HAD to wear dresses on the senate floor. And that was 1993!
2nd May 2012 10:24pm
there are no more village to aid in the nurturing and raising of children any more that I can see. And yes, absent parents just acting like children themselves what do they expect of the children. I'm with you on this one, we need to find another way.
2nd May 2012 11:43pm
So on point on with your comments. I never did have much interest in drinking in my youth but I can tell you that if I was inebriated anywhere near my house, I was sure to hear about from neighbors before my parents ever got home! As it was I was too busy playing sports after school or playing guitar.
Anonymous
2nd May 2012 10:54pm
Prohibition failed horribly...just watch the documentaries on TV or read up on it. The Seagrams Corporation, now quite respectable was started by people who both made whiskey and shipped it to the states using the longest unprotected border in the world....Made in Canada...smuggled into the USA...that was the GOOD STUFF...the RICH people GOT...the poor people drank anything and it KILLED THEM just like imitation MARYJANE is KILLING TEENAGERS right now
I am against the non-medical use of drugs because it causes problems for the patients....There is such a drug problem in Michigan in the last month ALL PRESCRIPTIONS MUST BE FAXED FROM THE DOCTORS OFFICE TO THE PHARMACY....so the patient cannot shop for the best price and also PAIN DOCTORS are monitored
because Michigan is in the TRACK system where EVERY PRESCRIPTION OBTAINED FROM A PHARMACY especially for a controlled substance is traced from doctor to patient....so CANCER PATIENTS can be UNDERTREATED because no doctor wants to be seen as OVERPRESCRIBING narcotic pain killers which SHOULD BE FOR PEOPLE IN HORRIBLE PAIN...
Drug abusers ruin it for very sick people
The war on drugs...started in 1970 has not worked...if anything there is more drug use now than in the 70s......
Throwing people into jail for drug offences does nothing...they need GOOD AND EXTENSIVE rehab...which is lacking ...there are greater needs for rehab than people think...so the only way to deal with drug abuse is realize that it is a bad way of coping and self-medicating...
Instead....EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE should be taught in school along with IQs...reading and writing and arithmetic...How to cope is a SKILL SET and if your parents did not have it....
I know my parents made mountains out of molehills every day...guess what...so do I...you do as you see your parents doing...If Daddy drinks and mother gets the current mothers little helper - PROZAC - then we are in effect saying...HAVE PROBLEM - TAKE A DRUG
This is not saying that mother may not be really depressed and NEED an antidepressant...but every era has had its medicinal support systems
.....alcohol...mentioned in the bible...and for sure used before....mary jane was used all over, opium dens in China and opium crops in Afghanistan now....coca leaves in the andes which Indigenous people chew to deal with the cold and the hunger....betel nuts in Africa...and the Middle East....
Education, coping skills, stable families, stable societies...all will contribute to a DROP IN SELF-MEDICATION.....
Oh..I really liked your poem
I will now get down off of my soapbox
Kitty
I am against the non-medical use of drugs because it causes problems for the patients....There is such a drug problem in Michigan in the last month ALL PRESCRIPTIONS MUST BE FAXED FROM THE DOCTORS OFFICE TO THE PHARMACY....so the patient cannot shop for the best price and also PAIN DOCTORS are monitored
because Michigan is in the TRACK system where EVERY PRESCRIPTION OBTAINED FROM A PHARMACY especially for a controlled substance is traced from doctor to patient....so CANCER PATIENTS can be UNDERTREATED because no doctor wants to be seen as OVERPRESCRIBING narcotic pain killers which SHOULD BE FOR PEOPLE IN HORRIBLE PAIN...
Drug abusers ruin it for very sick people
The war on drugs...started in 1970 has not worked...if anything there is more drug use now than in the 70s......
Throwing people into jail for drug offences does nothing...they need GOOD AND EXTENSIVE rehab...which is lacking ...there are greater needs for rehab than people think...so the only way to deal with drug abuse is realize that it is a bad way of coping and self-medicating...
Instead....EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE should be taught in school along with IQs...reading and writing and arithmetic...How to cope is a SKILL SET and if your parents did not have it....
I know my parents made mountains out of molehills every day...guess what...so do I...you do as you see your parents doing...If Daddy drinks and mother gets the current mothers little helper - PROZAC - then we are in effect saying...HAVE PROBLEM - TAKE A DRUG
This is not saying that mother may not be really depressed and NEED an antidepressant...but every era has had its medicinal support systems
.....alcohol...mentioned in the bible...and for sure used before....mary jane was used all over, opium dens in China and opium crops in Afghanistan now....coca leaves in the andes which Indigenous people chew to deal with the cold and the hunger....betel nuts in Africa...and the Middle East....
Education, coping skills, stable families, stable societies...all will contribute to a DROP IN SELF-MEDICATION.....
Oh..I really liked your poem
I will now get down off of my soapbox
Kitty
3rd May 2012 2:34am
With the education you present I was expecting to see a blurb about a certain president's father who made tons of money during Prohibition! :)
What I recall from traveling with my dad while he evaluated health care systems in Europe was how different the people's attitudes were compared to the US. I don't think there can ever be one approach that works for everyone, just as one method of school instruction doesn't fit every student. I think we can say however that Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No", had very limited success. I feel a bit more optimistic about DARE but unfortunately my city's program is in danger of being axed in an effort to eliminate 6 police officers from the department. (Youth services are always the first to slash since most teens aren't old enough to vote)
What I recall from traveling with my dad while he evaluated health care systems in Europe was how different the people's attitudes were compared to the US. I don't think there can ever be one approach that works for everyone, just as one method of school instruction doesn't fit every student. I think we can say however that Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No", had very limited success. I feel a bit more optimistic about DARE but unfortunately my city's program is in danger of being axed in an effort to eliminate 6 police officers from the department. (Youth services are always the first to slash since most teens aren't old enough to vote)
