Lindsay Sandiford
Like a fight against terrorism to ensure that everyone is safe from unexpected attacks by extreme and violent Muslim radicals, the same way worldwide, governments are fighting against drugs to ensure good health for its citizens.
The drug menace, destruction and its drastic effect on people have dented and inflated the medical cost of many countries in which citizens have been plagued by illegal usage of drugs. America could be one of the countries in the world with an expensive health care system.
I felt very bad after reading Lindsay Sandiford’s arrest, for allegedly smuggling cocaine worth £1.6 million into Bali, one of the Islands that make up Indonesia.
What at all pushed the 56-year-old woman to involved herself in such a situation, knowing perfectly well that when caught she wouldn’t easily get out of this? At her ripe age, this is the time Lindsay should have a nice happy life but not this kind.
In Asia, drug-related crime is considered very serious and one could even face a death penalty. “People who sell drugs are wicked, greedy and have no regard for human lives.
Therefore, when they are caught, we have no sympathy for them”. This was said by a prison warder being interviewed in a Thailand jail. “They will rot here to death”. He concluded.
The television crew showed a section of the jail that had many foreign inmates, including Africans, mostly from Nigeria. With this kind of treatment to arrested drug couriers, I wouldn’t know how Lindsay Sandiford would survive in these brutal conditions in an Asian jail.
She covered her face as she was brought out to face the media at a press conference in Kuta, a holiday town on the Indonesian island. Has she regretted now or simply covering her face from the media?
Her humiliation increased when she was pictured sitting at a table surrounded by packages wrapped up in brown tape as a customs official cut them open with a knife, after being stopped with the 4.7kg haul in a suitcase as she arrived in Bali on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand on May 19, according to Indonesian customs official Made Wijaya
The British government doesn’t condone or encourage its nationals involved in drug trafficking, yet its foreign mission there must negotiate with the Bali government for Lindsay to be deported to face trial on British soil.
Britain has the power to do that because it cares about its nationals. But would Lindsay’s arrest serve as a deterrent to those that wanted a to be a millionaire overnight?
A gambler is always a gambler. He only quits gambling when he is poor. But as soon as something comes into his pocket, you will see him once again around the gambling table.
Drug trafficking is a lucrative business, until the arrival of Jesus Christ, probably, thousands would be incarcerated for drug-related offenses.
A pregnant drug addict
A drug-addicted pregnant woman has no conscience, sympathy, and remorse for the child she is carrying in her womb. All that she cares about is more drugs to satisfy her demand. The more they take it, the more they want it, talking about hard drugs like crack and cocaine.
Due to the constant taking of drugs which in turn take its toll on them, the possibility of damaging her fetus cannot be prevented. Some infants are born with deformed hearts, digestive systems, lungs, and limbs. Others develop serious or strange sicknesses as they grow.
A drug-addicted woman has no time for herself and her baby. Drugs induce them to neglect their babies. The common idea to feed her baby is not worthy and when they do, the children are inadequately fed.
A pregnant drug-addicted woman is always penniless. They sell whatever they have to raise money for drugs and many times, they abuse themselves more by selling their bodies. Some of these acts take place in front of the children.
It hurts to see an innocent baby going through such an ordeal because of the acts of an irresponsible mother. If they know that time is not available to take care of a child, why do they give birth to babies, without prevention?
In the past, many have suggested that such mothers should face punishment. As a matter of fact, neither punishment nor treatment for mothers can improve things. There are many drug addicts that were helped to get off drugs but later went into it again.
The only solution is the babies have to be taken from them. If there is any law which allows an addicted mother to have her child, that law must be abolished. Drug addicted mothers should be banned not to see their children.
Giving birth to a child without seeing them could hunt a mother for the rest of her life than one living in a haunted house. That could teach them a lesson in a very hard way. Even though some may not care about such actions, this is one important solution to reduce the birth rate of these irresponsible women.
Drug addicted mothers threaten the well-being of their children. If a mother can't take care of herself how can she take care of her child? Instead of trusting these children to the care of mothers who are killing the children softly, the children should rather be protected. Save the children.
Once alcohol takes control over you, it's hard to break free
Alcohol is now known to be equally dangerous to cocaine and other dangerous drugs that affect the health of the abusers but the fight against it is much relaxed or slow.
A group of doctors in America believes that before the government loses or wins the campaign against cigarettes, cocaine, and other dangerous drugs, without considering alcohol much, it would have claimed millions of lives.
During my youth, I witnessed the effect of alcohol on some of my teachers during lessons in the classroom. When it’s eating time, we had nothing to talk about but the stinking or stench of alcohol we smelled on a particular teacher.
I could also remember my mother on many occasions counseling an alcoholic living in our neighborhood. When my mother didn’t see him any longer passing in front of our house to buy the strong, locally prepared drink, she thought he had gotten the message.
Unknowingly, the man changed his route to avoid my mother seeing him. Eventually, the man succumbed to illness and died. The postmortem revealed that he died from excessive drinking.
In America, medical statistics have it that nearly 14 million over 18 are alcoholics. Another 1.3 million suffer from alcohol dependencies. Overall, almost 8% of adults have problems with alcohol, costing the economy an estimated $100 billion a year in health care costs and loss of productivity. Fatal road accidents worldwide are also related to alcohol.
Indy Mehigan, 17, a transformed alcoholic, once terrorized the streets of Lowestoft, Suffolk, in Britain. According to her, “I was just 12 when I first swigged vodka with my giggling mates in the school toilets. A few years later, I had turned into a violent, drunken youth who thought of nothing but smashing someone’s face."
"Then a friend told me about Positive Futures, a youth project in Lowestoft that helps teenagers with addiction and other problems. With their help, I left the gang and started a college course, and I’m now retaking my GCSEs.
I’m also doing a course where I can mentor other kids. These days, when I see gangs of youths, I’m the one who crosses the street. But I also feel sorry because they are wrecking their lives.” She said. (Culled from Daily Mirror, Saturday, February 23, 2008, edition)
This is the confession of a young girl who has been in the abyss of alcohol drinking, but now is out of it and piously and consciously stepping out to help others. As a nation, people have to understand the crisis in alcohol abuse for several reasons.
Drinkers may find it legal, pleasurable, and even beneficial, but at the end of it all, when hooked, let’s us view its disastrous effect on humans and on the roads. Besides the deaths alcohol has caused, it has also contributed to many broken homes, painful divorces, separations, and juvenile crime. .,
Alcohol is not just a closet problem but a full-blown health crisis that is crippling our nation as well as families. Kick it early or don’t go for it at all.
