Bob is CONCERNED!!

[lonewolf]

If you would like to see where this new drug boom is headquartered, just go the Altoona Police Department.

[Chris]

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[evenaswedrum]

Definitely alot of drugs around. It's easier to find coke now then it is to get a bag of weed.
When there's an abundance of coke it only takes about 6 months for people to learn how easy it is to turn it into crack.
Soon everyone will be crackheads and then in about 5 years from now everyone's teeth will start rotting out of their mouths.
Sounds great, doesn't it?
I just wrote a song about the drug problem.
Called "hometown"

In a perfect world
i would ever be witness
to you all
its really nothing
tap the vein tap the vein
give it a purpose
i'll remember your name from reading a stone.

what fun you have
money spent burning
closed eyes
fists that are clenching
light the flame light the flame
give it a meaning
you helped us all by eliminating
yourself.

support habits by using you talents
relax and accept what is payment
for constant lack of moderation
something you haven't
everything's been takenSo rearrange teeth
created the room from decay
betrayed, the only one who loves you
yourself.
the only one who loves you... yourself.

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maybe a bit harsh...
I still believe legalization is the answer.
Alcoholics go to AA. Smokers buy the patch.
Cokeheads and the rest of the crew go to jail.
I get carded buying smokes. 16 years olds have an easier time buying
illegal drugs than the legal ones?
that's just stupid.
People have the choice to do any drugs but with smoking and drinking they are way more informed of the risks due to the fact that they're legal.
I know alot of nonsmokers/nondrinkers. I don't think legalizing other drugs would make them anymore user friendly, just more controlled.
Plus we could make more room in the prisons for real criminals, not people with addictions.

[bassist_25]

People have the choice to do any drugs but with smoking and drinking they are way more informed of the risks due to the fact that they're legal.

And let's not forget pharmaceutical companies that spend millions of dollars lobbying against pro-drug legalization. The war on drugs was a sham, is a sham, and will always be a sham.

People are addicted to a lot of things; it's just that some are legal and some are not. As Bill Maher says, "Ask your doctor if Jack Daniels is right for you."

[Chevelle7982]

EvenAsWeDrum, great lyrics man. I know from my own experiences, drugs can take alot away, not to mention the distorted thought process. Like EvenAsWeDrum, I too have written a song about drug use, however mine was written long before this post.

When I talk about the problems that make me take the pills,
my mind, it starts to break down and nobody knows just how I feel.
All the pain haunts the inside.
My throat begins to burn.
there's no time for me to hide.
I guess i never will learn.
I pour a glass of lonely water as the smoke pollutes the air.
these words for you I bother, like you really f#$%ing care.

It's WITHDRAWAL!!!
Just give me what I need.
This f@#$ing WITHDRAWAL is what makes my soul bleed.

The thoughts become so strong, yet the voices tell me no.
For a friend, they look at this wrong, but then welcome to the show.
You've never been there before, or, have you seen the story in my eyes.
I only wish to be a new born with a life of suh demise.
Well, who can help but to stare and gaze at such a helping hand.
The faces are lost in a haze.
The fuel intensifies my plan.

It's WITHDRAWAL!!!
Just give me what I need.
This f@#$ing WITHDRAWAL is what makes my heart plead.

As my body shakes, I reach for control.
Sober lies watch me quake.
I cry for all the bells that toll.

It's WITHDRAWAL!!!
Just give me what I need.
This f@#$ing WITHDRAWAL is what makes my soul bleed.
It's WITHDRAWAL!!!
Just give me what I need.
This f@#$ing WITHDRAWAL is what makes my heart plead.

[Zerohdefects]

Those of you who know me, I am Rob Lynn. My mother died from a heroine overdose, and my best friend, and singer of his and my band Project 13 died, also of a heroine overdose.

My mother had struggled with drug addiction all her life. She started with pills, and harder drugs came forth. She became a coke head in the 80s, when it was *cool* and had a habbit that was awful bad. She kicked the coke habbit, however, pills and such, she always did.

I watched the drug scene become alive in this area. Not because I do drugs, because I was around people who did. When it hits your home, you're left powerless to help. I watched people go from mainly eating pills to doing Oxy Conttin, and Liquid Morphine, to heroine.

The people responsible for the drug starting in this area, oh I could name you so many, that should have been shot. You know who else helped? The salvation army. I hate to say anything bad about an orginization that does good, however to save space for the post, I'll just say they brought alot of filth from other cities.

A lady whom lived in the Kaufman apartments in Downtown Altoona Pa, supplied LOTS of people with drugs they did not need.

Kicking the habbit, it's hard. You have the people you used to do drugs with always trying to get you back into it. The DT's Wd's everything. What the hell can you do? It's hard to quit. I think it's awful, society condemns you, and you don't even want to come out of the rut, when you do try, oh god, I could go on for hours about this.

Anyway, she died one day, and it was a very sad day.

My friend, singer, brother not by blood, but I guess in like soul or spirit, or whatever the fuck it would be called, and he got into drugs from his mother getting him into them, in reality, my mother did drugs with his mother, so I guess it could be my fault I became his friend, that he died, christ, I could go on about this forever.

Friendship becomes hard, when you're fighting over drugs.

The drug scene is much worse, and I hate to say it, but it's not going to get better, for a long time.

[esa]

I know what it's like to lose family and friends. I remember sitting in seventh grade and hearing that ______ died. Why? Because he was underage drinking. Polished off a bottle of Jack, a lot of Jose, and who else know with a group of friends. Died because everyone left him...choked on his own vomit. Not to mention the alcohol poisoning that would have got him if suffocation didn't first.

I've seen too many others o.d. on coke, stolen Rx pills... Seen a classmate be able to put a pencil between his nostrils because the cartilage was so badly eaten away by the coke. Had a few people in college that got AIDS by sharing a dirty needle (oh come on, we all know that the heat from the lighter kills *all* the germs! ::rolls eyes:: ) and shared STD's because sex is good after a good buzz on, nothing ever *really* happens. Cars wrapped around telephone poles and lost races to semi's. Rapes. Deaths. Jail time.

I haven't hit the 30 year mark in my life and I've already seen so much death and destruction in it. Immortality is supposed to be something that belongs to the young. God is it a killer when the eyes of children are wide opened...

I drink and I smoke. Hopefully I'll be able to kick the latter of the two (just that one too because the former is so much fun!). My parents were supportive about not doing drugs. So was my family. I was never afraid to ask them questions. Those that I know that do coke or pot are very cool about me asking questions...and are very cool about me saying, "Nah, don't want any..but thanks." It's nice that I'm not pressed into anything like that. And a boyfriend that right off the bat told me he'd kick my ass if he ever found out I did that shyte. I work with younger kids and none of them are ever afraid to ask me anything. I won't lie to them or anything but I won't be totally blunt (no pun intended) either. Education and Innocence are two fine lines. I think that's a big thing. Kids need to know they aren't pressured into that stuff.. it won't do them any good...and it's "cool" not to do that too. Something about good role models and a lack there of anymore...

I fight like hell with my father a lot. A lot. We're too much alike. But my Daddy is still my hero. Kids need that... would that stop some of the problem? I wonder.

I'm sorry to hear about your Mother and your "Brother". I truly am. And to all those who are hurting for their lost friends...

[facingwest]

I just got in from playing at The Foxburg and saw a patron there in tears because one of her best friends died today from heroin. She went out to get her mind off everything and you could see the hurt in her eyes. Drugs aren't anything to mess with and it really sux when someone has to lose their life over anything and especially a substance. In my teenage years, I helped one of my best friends through a night of hell because of drugs. Throughout the course of the night, he mixed so many drugs together and then got drunk to boot. There I am holding him up to puke into a bucket because he couldn't hold himself up. He made me promise him that I wouldn't take him to the hospital because of the embarassment. If it would've gotten too out of control, I would've even if he would've gotten mad me because he'd at least see another day to be mad. Thank God I didn't have to and through hours of watching him shake and keeping him awake, he made it through. The only thing I could do to keep his attention during was to play my guitar, which he asked me to. I'll never forget that night, and I never want to go through it again. I dispise drugs with a passion because of that and I'm glad I didn't lose one of my friends because of it. I pray to God that the people are using such wicked substances pull through without having to lose their lives or hurt others, including themselves, in the process. In all the years I've been playing, I've been offered so many things and turned them all down. That night will stick in my mind and haunt me the rest of my life.