DRUGS

"Military science" is an obligatory class for every college student who carries a Jordanian nationality studying at any Jordanian university, private & public.

It basically introduces the system of the Jordanian armed forces, its devisions and departments alongside some crucial national concepts.
Why am I writing this blog entry? Because I had a very interesting lecture today in this class, about drugs.

It was basic education on drugs, introduced by a lieutenant from the devision of fighting drugs ( sorry, I don't know the actual name of the department in English ). The lecturer was amazing; amazing skills, great talk and astonishing use of humor-for-a-purpose. Although there were times where humor was not suitable, so it wasn't used.

Now, I've never really went deep on researching about drugs, brcase they're not wide-spread in Jordan, thank God, yet today's talk really affected me. Although the known cases were only 1200 cases, it remains sad. There's no industry for planting drugs here, again, thank God, yet some people, as everywhere else, succeed in smugling some in.

We were breifed ( briefed?spell check plz) about heroine, cocaine and marijuana. Prices, what people do to get these stuff, also how many doses would make you an addict, what happens if u don't get ur dose in time and such info.
It SHOCKS what people do in favor of a poision that kills them. Amazing how many sabotage and insult their own intellegence and how many many people who had very bright futures lying front of them wipe them all away for the sake of getting a moment of extasy that'll sooner or later end their life along with their long-dead future...unless they do something about it.

In Islam, drugs, along with alcohol, as u all may know, are forbidden. For one simple sane reason: they kill you, and if not, they milk you to zero. In our culture, drugs are unacceptable, for the reasons before.

Some stories told today brought tears in my eyes alongsode the 500 other sutdents in the auditorium, for other stories, we laughed our heads off, not mocking the victims, only because of the sillyness of parents who don't even have a clue on what their son's favorite color is.
In a story told today, 3 guys overdosed and dies, 3 young guys not more than 22 years old. One guy's parents were like "we are so shocked that our son was addicted! We didn't know were he gets the money for drugs! Afterall, we only assigned 150$ as his daily allowence!!"

As drugs are not welcome in this culture, the department welcomes any addict who wants to lose their addiction, dealed with very secretly to avoid social scandal for that person. Many has succeeded in going back to normal life and leading careers, while others recovered for a while, then slipped back into addiction.

I'd like to hear your comments on this, any follow up questions u'd like to ask or any ideas u'd love to add =)