Drug and Alcohol Education 

by Dwain Liebert-Tomavoko

The site is for drug and alcohol purposes. It aims to provide information about the different drugs used, including alcohol and the dangers it poses for using them, services and agencies available for treatment and counseling and links to other drug and alcohol websites for researching of more information.

History of drug use

“ The use of psychoactive substances has been a relatively common phenomenon since the dawn of civilization. Evidence for the use of many of today’s major illicit and licit drugs dates back several thousand years. Alcohol in the form of beer and wine, dates back at least 8000 years; tobacco use pre-dates the ‘discovery’ of the America’s by thousands of years; opium originated in Mesopotamia at least 7000 years ago, from where it quickly spread throughout Asia and the Mediterranean; cannabis seeds and by-products have been found in the earliest strata of human habitation, and the thousands of names by which it is known in hundreds of languages testify to its long history across the planet; there are references to hallucinogenic mushrooms in ancient Hindu texts; and archaeological evidence dates the use of peyote, a hallucinogen derived from cactus, to at least 7500 BC. In comparison coca, the use of which dates back to 600 AD, is a relative newcomer. There are, of course, many other plants with equally long a history of use, but it is the foregoing ones that continue to be the most widely used today”.

  From the text “Drug use in Australia: A harm minimization approach”

IF SOMEONE OVERDOSES

 IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ROUSE THEM BY

 ACT QUICKLY

-    Make sure airway is clear

-    Roll them on side

-    If breathing stopped, begin mouth to mouth or call for help

-    If no pulse call for help

-    Stay calm

-    Take responsibility to get help

 If you can: find out what drug/when/how much used.

If you have done first aid, update your skills regularly

This page was last updated on 05/16/04.