ACT to get on the Ice bandwagon

Any ‘nickname’ for a drug generally isn’t made up by the media, rather found in the community it is used in. I’m sure ‘ice’ is a term it’s users adopted, much like Horse, H, Scag, Hammer, Horse or Vitamin H for heroin.

VG, personal experience and drug evils aside, I just don’t think the media should be using the confusing and inaccurate name “ice” when it’s really crystal meth. People (like the poster after me) don’t realise meth and ice are one and the same.

I also believe the name ‘ice’ is used by the media because it sounds scary, and is designed to get an emotive response from the reader. If they started calling heroin ‘junk’ or ‘hammer’ wouldn’t you agree that would be provocative?

My comment was only about what the media call the drug. Your response successfully made you look like a hero and me like a pedestrian too, by the way.

Is this sort of like a wine tasting with free samples.

I want to tell her about my experiences.

excuse the spelling.
was meant to read “drug induced psychosis or even..”

violent drunks cause more problems(number wise)
But the drug induced physcosis or event just the ice addicts going psycho is far more severe,

the last time this dozy backbencher raised a peep was when her boosters landed on riotact proposing her as a replacement for some labor hack leadership position in the assembly.

VG, do you work in law enforcement, or public health? Either way, how do the numbers of injuries caused by violent meth takers stack up with those caused by violent drunks? (That’s not a rhetorical question, by the way, I am actually curious.)

You’ve got it in one Thumper.

While not suggesting that ice/meth is not a huge problem, the need for the ACT study is driven by the “other states have done it so the ACT should too” syndrome.

Why limit it to this particular drug ? After all, many other illegal drugs can have severe side effects….