Oz drug culture---so open?
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how many know oz now so open to drugs.
Be prepared if u are going to Oz to live ,study,retire....
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23487226-5006301,00.html
1.can the learned one tell me if these are extreme cases in Oz.
no need tell me SG no.we can read SG reports.
Graham Cornes blasts footy's disturbing drug culture
April 05, 2008 01:20am
THE scene could not have been more obvious or more stark. The well known media/entertainment figure was bent over the bench in the men's toilet, inhaling a white powder.
Two people were with him, waiting expectantly. One was a current AFL footballer, the other a senior SANFL footballer. Their only regard for privacy was the separation the toilet provided from the other guests.
The other setting was much more blatant; perhaps desperate is a better word. Three figures beside the Torrens Lake, metres off the path that is used each day by thousands of walkers, joggers, commuters, hunched over the improvised paraphernalia that is used to inject the poison into their systems.
At first glance they could have been uni students, but on closer examination there was a hardness and a grime etched into the street-weary faces that betrayed their circumstances. The needle, the spoon and the flame, as cliched as that sounds, left no doubt about what they were doing.
The latter of those two incidents, I witnessed personally. The other was described to me by a friend, whose judgment and media-honed powers of observation I would trust.
The circumstances of the participants seem so vastly different, but are they really? Is the junkie who shoots up in broad daylight beside a major pedestrian and cyclist thoroughfare that much different to the celebrity who snorts for recreation? The only thing that separates them is income and the degree of desperation.
What is most disturbing about the incident that involved the media figure and the two footballers is that it happened within the last month, in this current football season.
My friend went to great pains to point out that he didn't see either of the footballers inhale or ingest the substance, but it seemed obvious they were waiting their turns. But anyway, how could an AFL footballer be so dumb and an SANFL footballer so disrespectful as to put themselves in that situation?
Wayne Carey shocked us all with his frankness and the depth of his self-destructive indulgences. He evoked many different emotions, but overwhelmingly the sentiment of those watching was of sympathy, even pity. The men shook their heads that such a powerful man could be reduced to this, and the women, other than the cold-hearted shrews, wanted to mother him.
However, for all his frankness, there remained a lingering doubt about when he actually started to use cocaine. Was it really after he finished playing football? We know too many AFL footballers have tested positive for illicit drugs.
We know Ben Cousins has ingested and inhaled the poison during the latter half of his career. We know habitual users can be in a constant state of denial, so it's very hard not to be cynical about the veracity of such statements.
Besides, there were always rumours. While rumours don't necessarily equate to the facts, rumours in recent years have been enough for at least one of the Adelaide teams to seriously address them with its playing group.
Of course, as the Ben Cousins saga played out, the club was even more compelled to counsel and monitor its playing group. However, if all clubs have adopted a similar drug education program, it is obviously not working at all of them.
Perhaps there will always be the individuals who don't want to listen and don't want the help until they are caught, but then it's too late. It's a pity those feelings of remorse and contrition can't be felt before the drug-users are caught.
The SANFL situation is different only because of the differing levels of professionalism and the SANFL's more limited resources.
The SANFL tests for performance-enhancing substances under the WADA code. Like most sporting associations it does not test for illicit drugs. If those drugs show up under the Australian Sports Anti-drug Agency testing, it is reported to the SANFL but no sanctions apply.
At nearly $900 per individual test, illicit drug testing is too expensive for secondary leagues and minor sports to fund. And indeed, why should sport be made to carry the major cost of what is primarily society's problem?
So some SANFL players exploit the system. There are reports of certain venues frequented by local footballers where a drug culture is rife. I know of at least one SANFL player who contemplated leaving his club because of the drug habits of some of his team-mates.
However, that is all apocryphal. It's as serious an issue for the SANFL as it is for the AFL, the other major football codes and any of the Olympic Sports, but it simply does not have the resources to enforce the ideal.
The AFL player and the SANFL veteran involved in the disturbing escapade described above, both need a good kick up the backside. More than that, they need to be exposed publicly.
Unfortunately, most of us are too sympathetic and considerate towards them and their clubs to do that. It's a pity they weren't as considerate.
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Ask PAP to boycott Australia for their drugs leh. Boh lan ah
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The Spotlight fallacy is committed when a person uncritically assumes that all members or cases of a certain class or type are like those that receive the most attention or coverage in the media. This line of “reasoning” has the following form:
1. Xs with quality Q receive a great deal of attention or coverage in the media. 2. Therefore all Xs have quality Q.
This line of reasoning is fallacious since the mere fact that someone or something attracts the most attention or coverage in the media does not mean that it automatically represents the whole population. For example, suppose a mass murderer from Old Town, Maine, received a great deal of attention in the media. It would hardly follow that everyone from the town is a mass murderer.
The Spotlight fallacy derives its name from the fact that receiving a great deal of attention or coverage is often referred to as being in the spotlight. It is similar to Hasty Generalization, Biased Sample and Misleading Vividness because the error being made involves generalizing about a population based on an inadequate or flawed sample. The Spotlight Fallacy is a very common fallacy. This fallacy most often occurs when people assume that those who receive the most media attention actually represent the groups they belong to. For example, some people began to believe that all those who oppose abortion are willing to gun down doctors in cold blood simply because those incidents received a great deal of media attention. Since the news media typically cover people or events that are unusual or exceptional, it is somewhat odd for people to believe that such people or events are representative.
Examples
- I wouldn't like to go to America because of all the gun crime; we see it on the news all the time.
- Muslims are always in the news blowing other people up; so all Muslims are terrorists.
- Doctor: Why don't patients make some effort to look after themselves? My surgery is full of people who eat, drink, smoke and don't get any exercise. Of course he may have many more patients who do look after themselves and don't often turn up in his surgery; there's also the possibility that the patients who do look after themselves will be less likely to turn up in his surgery because of the fact that they take care of themselves and are healthier than those who don't.
- Why do young people all take drugs and go around mugging old ladies? You read about it in the paper all the time!
- Child: When I grow up I want to be a singer. Have you seen how much money those pop-stars make?!
- lionnoisy: don't you know that it is my job to cut and paste media articles, and then repeat it as if that is the actual picture of things on the ground?
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there are well over 50,000 singaporeans here in australia
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/10/topics/313591
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Aust 'Drug Culture' is open......
S'pore's one is 'Closed'
At the end..... still the same. All have a drug user problem.
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Australia got the good sh|t.
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the hemps in Melbs are lovely...and i swear i saw a few white dudes who keeps sniffing their hands at Zouk -___-