This is a huge waste of time.
Last year, I phoned in the Melanson Live talk host. < the good old days of freedom of speech >
The guest was an R.C.M.P. officer talking about the D.A.R.E. program.
I asked the officer if they talked about Ritalin to the classes?
They didn’t and they can’t because in my view it would degrade the kids who are on Ritalin in the classrooms.
So the major problem in the schools and the universities are prescription drug but Bernard Lord don’t care.
The drugging and the killing of our childen will continue till October 15th, 2007.
The prescription drug problems in the schools are at a all time high and the officers who promotes the D.A.R.E. program can’t talk about it!!!!
Here's the story in the telegraph Journal.
NB Telegraph-Journal | Saint John
As published on page B7 on November 30, 2005
DRUG AWARENESS PROGRAM GRADS
Click to zoom (Peter Walsh/Telegraph-Journal)
More than 500 Grade 5 students graduated from the DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program on Tuesday. The drug awareness program, which consists of an hour a week instruction for 10 weeks, is sponsored by Saint John schools and city police. Here, Jamie LeBlanc, 11, of Champlain Heights School, receives his certificate from Const. Paul Shepard of the Saint John Police Force. In the background is David Hosford, who also attends Champlain Heights. More than 6,500 children have graduated from the program over 15 years.
9 comments:
I think any program is good to try and keep our young people from getting into Drugs Charles.
I hear what you're saying loud and clear, Prescription Medications are Drugs as well,as we all know.
And as I am the first one to admit Charles, I could write a book on what I don't know about the Ritalin Issue, I think the Police Officers may possibly have some type of Criteria as to what they can talk about, and possibly maybe What they cannot talk about . I don't know.
But to just issue and shove some medications down our Chidrens throats isn't right.
From the research you have done Charles, what appears to be the most positive form of treatment, to combat the Ritalin Drug ??
Charles has written extensively on this issue, we KNOW that health workers have a huge procedure for determining whether a child has ADD. This in itself is suspect, but even THAT procedure is not being followed in NB. From comments made here we are pretty sure that the medication is paid for by New Brunswickers, but the province won't foot the bill for a correct diagnosis, which ranges from $1400 up.
Ironically, marijuana studies have shown that pot has FAR LESS impact on the brain. Ironic that they only preach against SOME drugs, certainly not the natural plants that god provided for us free of charge.
To be fair, it's a cop's job to tell kids what's LEGAL. If we adopt our Mr. Spinks motto of granting equal time to all sides of every issue then people like Charles should be an active part of the school children and presenting the drug facts he has posted here (and most are links to studies, not just his opinions).
But of course first you need the study so that people like the above reader KNOW what's going on, in fact so that all the people know what's going on.
I'm with you Mike. There should be equal time in the classroom for differeing opinions. Evolution and intellugent design for example or Planned Parenthood which is now now in the classrooms of Fredericton teaching sexuality education but where is NB Right to Life?
Anyway, I disagree with Charles on this one. DARE is an important program with proven results especially in rural NB where councils would give up other police services before losing their DARE programs. Yep, marijuana is better than heroin or dilaudid but it's still not good for you. It clouds judgement and anytime you put smoke in your lungs of any kind you increase your risk of lung cancer. Some kids will still try drugs and get addicted to them but that doesn't mean you don't try. Kudos to DARE.
Charlie your way off here buddy. The program is great, you must be on something if you think that drug education is a waiste of time. Your comment is totaly ridiclous. I have never heard of kids buying ridlin to get high with on weekends at partys ect. There is a major problem with prescription drugs, but your solution is to stop the program completly? Use your head!
The DARE program is great! I think they should re-do it in grade 9 also though.
I know many who consistantly buy Ritalin to use as study aids in the university system. You (3:40pm) may have some valid points regarding the recreational use of Ritalin however it is used potentially as much or more than recreational drugs during certain times of the year specifically during exams and midterm testing. I personally know of peopel who buy these drugs to use during reading sessions because they feel it makes them focus more. The side effects are unknown however they get moodier during the periods in between use.
It was bought to my attention that there's a huge front page story on the Brunswickan about this very issue....I'm trying to get it to post it in here...stay tune
I too agree the D.A.R.E Program is the right way to go and it definitly should stay the cource.
But I do have a problem with the belief that some kids that are currently on Ritalin and abusing the drug beyond it's intended purpose.
I had met a young native man at the Liberal Biennial Meeting in October of this year.
He began conversating with me outside in the parking lot of the hotel while having a smokebreak and Charlie came out and joined our talk for a moment then left.
This young guy asked me to tell him a little more about Charlie.
So I began telling him that Charlie is a Political activist and his biggest concern is the use of Ritalin to the children of New Brunswick without proper diagnoses for it's use.
After telling him this, he began to tell me of when he was younger in school.
It had been suggested to his Mother that he be put on Ritalin which he was.
He said he liked it so much especially the feeling of being high and or numb is how he discribed it.
He said he knew of other natives who were taking it too but didn't really want it.
So he would go around and see who would give theirs to him and he would take about a half dozen or so as often as he could get them.
He went on to tell me that there are many people he knows that did it that way too and that this still goes on with the new group of kids today.
I think he told me he was from the Campbellton area or near the Miramichi.
I know it was in the Norhern part of the province.
I wonder if any of these kids on Ritalin are eledgible to pass the D.A.R.E. Program for awareness of other drugs of concern?
Or if they are taught any differently about how drugs can be a major problem for them if they don't keep their wits about them.
As the facts show that they are obviously at a much greater risk of being drug users as they grow up as has been the case with many youngsters who have been exposed to Prescription drugs at a young age according to research.
DARE even teaches about caffeine as a drug. Basically the message is that anything which is not food or air and goes in your body is a drug. Obviously the kids who are paying even the remotest bit of attention realize Ritalin is a drug.
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