Say No to Drugs

Look at me in my bad self. Uuu...I'm a crumbling canyon wall and I'm taking you with me. Well not today, pal. Uh huh..uh huh...uh huh...uh huh..! (Kuzco, The Emperor's New Groove)

Afternoon, dude. What a bright sunny day.

Celebrating 62nd Indonesian Indepence Day Anniversary my office conduct some events. What we have this morning were two lectures about work ethos and drugs elucidation. Some time in the middle the committee drew doorprizes (and I didn't get it...and maybe never will. I'm so not in the space of such luck. Two people in my division got TVs, man).

The first elicidation was just so so. The power point was not so interesting and a bit hard to read in such distance, specially with the gloomy background and font choice. But, the second one, the drug information was nice. There were some illustrations and fragments of people using different drugs, kind of drugs, maps of drug trade, the effects and cause of drug problems, ect.

I like that presentation because I get some new information. Perhaps you have known about some of the stuffs I'm talking about, but maybe some others haven't, so information won't cost you anything, right?


Drugs - in Indonesian term is NARKOBA consist of 3 element: NARkotika, psiKOtropika, BAhan aditif lainnya. Most of them come from overseas (except GANJA which naturally grow in Indonesia - NAD). Our country right now has become very potential market target and even in recent finding has become a site for production.

It is said that the users in Indonesia reach more than 3 million people, and most of them from age 15 - 25 years old. Oh yeah, we can picture that we're dealing with a very serious problem since those users are our next generation. The drugs have reached younger ones; low, middle and high class society; respected or ordinary people; career women or housewives; a celebrity or a bump; all kind of people you can mention. We are all on the verge of being "paralyzed" by drugs.

A point that we have to be aware of is that drug matters improve as technology progress. The users themselves also create new innovation to get to the level they want. The latest issue there are some cases of some teenagers who are addicted to "home made" drug (latex from sukun leaf and papaya, dried nutmeg). Whoa...creative yet destructive, huh?

Some people misuse medicine or nature products and turn to addict. This reminds me of a Korean TV series "Jewel in The Palace", which in one of the episode told that in medical world poisonous and medicinal herbs or ingredients shouldn't be distinguished clearly because at one moment the poison could become medicine and otherwise. Yeah, it's like the saying, it's not the gun but the man behind the gun. The nature provides enormous potential and products, how wise we use it that's the question.

Hm...such a serious talk. I think I end it now before I become starving..