If You Want To Know What Drugs Do
February 5, 2010 at 9:00 pm
If you think that drugs is about having a quick line of coke in slick bar somewhere, wiping your runny nose as you down your vodka. Or dancing all night with your hands in the air, in love with strangers around you who tomorrow will not be your friends. Then read on.
I’ve recently completed a blog site for a community group in my local area. It’s called Sankalpa and they work with people who want to come off methadone and benzos. Methadone rehabilitation Dublin. Inner city areas are no longer riddled with smack (well not as much as they were in the 1980′s), but boy is it easy to get your hands on benzo’s… those horrible drugs that keep you sedated but alive. Imagine being successful coming off smack and then having to live in an area that’s coming down in opportunities for benzos?
Sankalpa work at changing people’s lives. They educate and promote nutrition, herbs, and juicing. They teach people how to cook real food and change habits of a lifetime to keep their bodies healthy. They use art therapy to help people bring out their stories about the why, the what for, and to face some of the memories that have been so long locked away. They provide training in computer skills, maths, art, ceramics… they help to place feet firmly back on the right road again.
There are so many inspiring stories coming out of Sankalpa (and the lots of other local groups around this country). It must be hard for them in this climate and the fact that they are not helping people from Haiti. Sankalpa is run by a team of really open and forward looking people. They’ve started a blog – it makes great reading… from recipes for smokers cough tea, tips on how to use lemon balm and other herbs, and interesting research in this area… but what really gets me are the real life stories.
Fair play to people like Des, David, Lynne and others who tell it like it is in all its ugly truth.
To all the people making a go of it at Sankalpa big RESPECT.
To anyone reading this who has skills in video editing, podcasting, photography… Sankalpa need you. They’ve great plans this year to produce lots of rich media. If you’d like to help in any way at all – you can!
Now for all you people out there who still think coke is cool, read David’s story. And next time you end up in some after hours house party, think about Des - sure you might have even partied in his house?
