Native addiction

One of the biggest issues on reservations today is alcohol and drugs---our youth are dying young--the average age for men to die is 45 and women is about 47---as a nation of people I feel it was never intented for us to use alcohol--the Great Spirit created us to be pure but it didn't stay that way after the whites visited---alcohol was used to depress the people and finally into addiction--we sold our souls to the bottle---I know I did and I also know my body did not react like most of the drunks I hung out with---I was a violent drunk who heard voice and saw things--I scared people away even the dunks I was with were afaird of me------------hum ya think we are different?? what do you think??? Doc

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Permalink Reply by Doc on July 19, 2010 at 6:42pm

George
I understand the thorey--but I believe it is this simple--Europens has been introduced to alcohol for 1,000's of years--where we here have only been introduced for 250+ years---now watch a Europen use LSD and they go nuts--why because the same applies--only 300 years--give me LSD (back in the 60's) and I waited and very little happened---we have had hallucingtics (I know I can't spell worth beans) for 1,000 of years---We become amune from generation to generation---make sence???? any way that is my theory and I am sticking to it LOL Seeker