Study Finds Alcohol, Not Marijuana, Is the Biggest Gateway Drug For Teens 459
An anonymous reader writes with news of a study out of the University of Florida which found that alcohol is the biggest "gateway" drug, the use of which increases the likelihood of other drug use. Quoting:
"In the sample of students, alcohol also represented the most commonly used substance, with 72.2 percent of students reporting alcohol consumption at some point in their lifetime. Comparatively, 45 percent of students reported using tobacco, and 43.3 percent cited marijuana use. In addition, the drug use documented found that substance use typically begins with the most socially acceptable drugs, such as alcohol and cigarettes, then proceeds to marijuana use and finally to other illegal, harder drugs. Moreover, the study showed that students who used alcohol exhibited a significantly greater likelihood — up to 16 times — of licit and illicit substance use."
Not how the board game works. (Score:4, Funny)
duh (Score:4, Funny)
I was drunk first time I ever smoked.
Which reminds me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Makes sense (Score:3, Funny)
the gapeway to addiction
Is that like being addicted to goatse? If so, then no thank you!
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Don't even get me started about the day the squirrel went berserk.
I remember it well.
We were in the First Self-Righteous Church, in the sleepy little town of Pascagoula...
Re:duh (Score:5, Funny)
Sobriety, the gateway drug to all the others!
Re:duh (Score:5, Funny)
Well, believe me, I won't make that mistake again.
Re:Wow (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Makes sense (Score:5, Funny)
Goatse addiction-now that's an illness that I hope nobody else has to go through.
A couple years ago some of my "friends told me about this nasty website called goatse. They told me to never go there because no amount of brain bleach will make you unsee it. So I avoided it. Whenever I saw a suspicious link I left it alone so as to keep my mind pure. Yet all this time I spent wondering how something could be so disgusting that it would be unforgettable.
One day I broke. I was bored. There was nothing on TV. My favorite message boards were dead. I was about to go insane from the lack of anything to do. Then the thought popped into my head "why not go look at goatse; it can't be THAT bad." Initially I resisted. My friends had warned me well, but eventually I broke. I slowly typed goatse.cx into my browser bar trembling with fear and anticipation. When the page loaded I was horrified. It was even worse than my friends said. I found myself retching because it was so repulsive. Yet I could not tear my eyes away There was something hypnotizing about that distended rectum with hands gripping the sides.
Soon I was spending hours a day on that site doing nothing but staring into that gaping maw. I could not figure out why, but I was hooked on it. The hole had me transfixed. Before long I started adorning my possessions with goatse paraphernalia. While I hid it initially from my friends and family, once I started doing that they knew. Slowly they started to drift away from me one by one. Eventually the only person I saw was my roommate, and that was rarely. After some time I walked back to my computer to gaze at the spread buttocks for several hours when I found my roommate blocking access to my computer. He looked me squarely in the eyes and said "You've got a problem." Initially I protested, but deep down I knew he was right, so after a heated discussion I deleted all the images off my hard drive, peeled the stickers off the lid of my laptop and took the posters down from the walls.
I've been goatse-free for three years now and I do not want to revisit that part of my life ever again.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Funny)
The "Elephant in the room" is caffeine. Why is society not prepared to deal with this menace, that makes drugs socially acceptable from an early age?
99% of heroin addicts admit to having used caffeine in some form before they were sixteen.