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Drugs have a strong hold on one who is addicted. Often nothing else matters. However, it's important to remember that the only thing stronger than drug addiction is your willpower. If you make the decision to quit doing drugs you can, as long as you realize the process that needs to take place. Quitting drugs is a team effort weather it be a team of people you know or are just meeting for the first time. Making the decision to quit is the hardest part. Instructions 1 Make the decision to quit doing drugs. The hardest yet most essential step is to make the decision on your own. Drug users never truly quit until they make a firm decision. Once you have realized that you will be better off without drugs in your life, support your decision by letting everyone know of the change your will be making. Tell family, friends and most important the people you associate with while doing drugs. Be ready for the support some will offer as well as the bad attitude some will surely give. Stay strong in your decision after talking with everyone. 2 Get professional help. The chances of someone successfully quitting drugs without rehab or some sort of help is nearly nil. You may want to consider checking yourself into a drub rehabilitation clinic. To find more information about a clinic near you, call the Drug Rehab Hotline. In addition, you can attend a local 12-step program where you will attend meetings once a week with others going through the same life change as you. Often drug counselors can be helpful. They offer you one-on-one time with somebody who can help create changes in your life that will help you to achieve your goal. 3 Change your social environment. Almost every drug user associates with a group of friends that also do drugs. These may be the only friends that you have. As hard as it may be, you need to realize how hazardous it is to your decision to quit to continual to hang around people that do drugs. Never expect yourself as a drug user to be strong enough to be in the presence of drugs. If they are real friends they will understand and support your decision, if they aren't then unfortunately new friends may be in order. 4 Create a follow-up system. It is important to stay on path even after you completed rehab or counseling. Once you are drug user, the ability to use again is always in your system. Your will to stop doing drugs has to have a stronger hold on you than drugs do. Many times rehabilitation centers offer sober living environments after you successfully go through rehab. Sober living homes are basically a normal living environment with roommates except with a few more restrictions. You can live your life normally but you and the people living with your create a check system for each other. If sober living doesn't interest you, you can create a check system with somebody you trust. Let them help you create rules and boundaries. Allow them to question you and demand that you abide by the rules you both set. 5 Monitor your time. Keeping busy with little down time to falter will greatly increase your chances of staying sober. Work a steady job and maybe even join a few activities you enjoy. Do things that make you happy that don't disturb your sober living. Keep the change in your life real and make no excuses for yourself. Read more: http://bardrugs.blogspot.com/2011/05/heroin.html Read More......

Coca leaves have been chewed by South American Indians for many thousands of years to induce a mild and long-lasting euphoria. Anthropologists have speculated that the word coca derives from the pre-Incan Tiwanaku word khoka - meaning "the plant". The Aymara word q'oka means "food for travellers and workers".
The Incas in particular venerated coca. They used coca in magical ceremonies and initiation rites; for divination and fertility rituals; and to heal their physical and psychic woes. Two of the Inca emperors named their wives after the leaf - the honoured consorts were given the plant's sacred title, Mama Coca. The only object ever carried by the Inca emperor himself was a coca pouch. He wore it around his neck close to his heart.

In the Inca period, the elite regarded the sacred leaf as far too good for ordinary Indians. The invading Spanish conquistadores were more practical - and cynical. Intially coca use and cultivation was denounced, especially by the Catholic Church, for its destructive influence on the native populations. Coca was banned as an agent of idolatry and sorcery, "strengthening the wicked in their delusions, and asserted by every competent judge to possess no true virtues; but, on the contrary, to cause the deaths of innumerable Indians, while it ruins the health of the few who survive."


But the invaders were impressed at coca's efficacy as a stimulant: "The herb is so nutritious and invigorating that the Indians labour whole days without anything else." The Spanish needed native labour in their silver-mines. Work in the mines was extremely arduous; and taking coca reduces appetite and increases physical stamina. Hence there was a great surge in coca-use and the number of coqueros (coca-chewers).


Pope Paul III (r. Oct. 13, 1534 - Nov. 10, 1549) stated in his encyclical entitled "Sublimus Die" that Indians were not to be robbed of their freedom. He wrote "Notwithstanding whatever may have been or may be said to the contrary, the said Indians [of the New World] and all other people who may later be discovered by Christians, are by no means to be deprived of their liberty or the possession of their property, even though they be outside the faith of Jesus Christ; and that they may and should, freely and legitimately, enjoy their liberty and the possession of their property; nor should they be in any way enslaved..." Read More......

Coca can be harvested four times a year. Traditionally, chewing the sacred leaf promotes contact with the spirit world. Chewing or smoking coca leaves invigorates the user, allowing him to absorb the plant's magical powers and protect body and spirit alike. Ancient Peruvians used coca as a local anaesthetic before trepanning - the hazardous surgical technique of drilling a hole in the skull to relieve various physical and psychic woes.
In traditional Indian cultures, Mama Coca was accounted a benevolent deity. She was regarded as a sacred goddess who could bless humans with her power. Before the coca harvest, the harvester would sleep with a woman to ensure that Mama Coca would be in a favourable mood. Typically, a decoction of coca and saliva was rubbed onto the male organ to prolong erotic ecstasy.

Tales of the aphrodisiacal properties of cocaine eventually reached the Old World too. In his journal of 1794, Hipolito Unanue writes of "coqueros, 80 years of age and over, and yet capable of such prowess as young men in the prime of life would be proud of."


Later authorities made no less extravagant claims. In Der Kokainismus (1926), Swiss psychiatrist Hans Maier records: "After a night of sexual prowesses, compared to which the seven labours of Hercules were a mere nothing, I fell asleep, only to be immediately awakened by the renewed demands of my insatiable partner. I was able to verify on myself the degree to which cocaine renders women incapable of achieving sexual relation. Orgasm follows orgasm, each one further increasing the intensity of the desire. The most sexually potent man must eventually give up the hope of satisfying such a woman. There was nothing to do but flee in self-preservation."

Such purple prose may mislead the unwary. Cocaine is not an aphrodisiac if taken in large quantities over prolonged periods. Indeed chronic cocaine use may suppress erotic behaviour altogether. This is because taking pure cocaine is typically more pleasurable than having sex. Captive animals given the opportunity to enjoy unlimited quantities of both will initially be more sexual active. But they end up focusing entirely on the cocaine. This pattern of behaviour is also the common experience of humans who pass from casual recreational use of the drug to become cocaine addicts. Read More......