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Summer 2009

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Wendell Smith
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Nehemiah wins Centre for Social Justice Award

Nehemiah has won The Maxie Richards Award at the Centre for Social Justice Awards 2008, for excellence in addiction treatment.

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Num Question Answer
1 A regular coffee-drinker (say 6 or 7 cups a day) will suffer no ill effects if they give it up.
2 If you usually drink five or six cups of coffee a day, and you decide to stop completely, you may get headaches, sweating, shaking, anxiety, vomiting, etc.
3 It is possible to become addicted to over-the-counter pep pills such as Pro-Plus.
4 Once a person has smoked their first cigarette, they become hooked for life.
5 More people die as a result of taking heroin, than die as a result of smoking cigarettes.
6 North American Indians used tobacco to produce visions.
7 Research shows that 70% of all violent crimes involve alcohol.
8 Alcoholics are usually dossers, tramps and down and outs.
9 Someone who is used to four or five pints every night and then decides to stop drinking could suffer severely from headaches, sweating, shaking, anxiety, sleeplessness, vomiting, etc.
10 It is mostly men who become alcoholics.
11 It is illegal to drink alcohol in some countries of the world
12 When tranquillisers were first introduced, the manufacturers recommended that they be supplied only for a maximum of 8 weeks.
13 People taking tranquillisers like Valium and Librium for a long time become dependent on them and need to carry on taking them all the time.
14 It’s perfectly OK to mix alcohol and tranquillisers.
15 If you are worried about something, and you take tranquillisers, the problem goes away.
16 It is safe to drive a motorbike or car when under the influence of cannabis
17 Cannabis is usually injected by users.
18 Fatal overdose of cannabis happens quite often.
19 Using cannabis is illegal and expensive.
20 Withdrawal from regular cannabis use can cause aches and pains, vomiting, shaking, anxiety and physical damage.
21 Cannabis plays an important part in some of the world
22 Opium has never been much used in this country
23 Morphine is made from opium.
24 Morphine is used only by addicts.
25 Heroin is only addictive if it is injected. It is O.K. to smoke it or snort it.
26 As heroin was found to be addictive, chemists invented synthetic substitutes that are not addictive.
27 If a regular heroin user stops taking it, he/she will die.
28 The national economy of some countries depends entirely on the export of illegal drugs.
29 Women who take LSD give birth to handicapped babies.
30 LSD has been used in the treatment of the mentally ill.
31 LSD causes hallucinations that can sometimes be frightening.
32 Sniffing butane gas is more dangerous than sniffing glue.
33 Once you start glue sniffing, you get stuck on it.
34 The best way to stop glue sniffing would be to ban it.
35 Glue sniffing is against the law.
36 Cocaine is highly physically addictive.
37 Cocaine is a stimulant.
38 Once you have used Crack you are addicted for life.