00:00According to anti-drug use activist Garth Sinclair, certain party drugs can dull alcohol's potency, often leading users to consume
00:11even more in an attempt to feel iniberated.
00:14He says the combination can severely impact the body's ability to function, increasing the risk of long-term mental and
00:23physiological damage, like rhabdomyolysis, which he explains.
00:28Because when people party, when young people party, they don't drink, they don't take in a lot of fluids. They
00:33drink more alcohol. So your body suffers from hypothermia.
00:37So which means now your body is battling blood pressure and your heart is pumping faster to regulate the blood
00:45flow.
00:46Once the muscle tissue gets into the bloodstream, it goes straight to the kidneys and that is what causes the
00:53nausea, the vomiting, the disorientation, people pass out and all of this.
00:57Sinclair also weighs in on the decriminalization of marijuana under the previous administration, noting that stronger regulatory frameworks and public
01:08education measures should have accompanied the legislative change.
01:12The first mistake was you're giving everybody in a household the opportunity to plant four trees. That was mad.
01:19It's better it had done one household for four trees, right? That would have been better.
01:24Now, if four people in your home decide they're going to plant marijuana, you have 16 fully grown marijuana trees
01:30in your yard. What are you going to do with it? You can't smoke all of that one time.
01:34So, obviously, people will get the bright idea. Well, look, mommy not working. Daddy not around. Maybe I could sell
01:42some drugs.
01:43He is now calling for a sustained and intentional national education campaign, beginning within the school system, adding that many
01:52young people under the age of 25 are currently receiving treatment at the St. Anne's Psychiatric Hospital as a result
02:00of early and prolonged substance abuse.
02:03Drug education in schools, put it on the curriculum, not just somebody going in school to lecture, a one off
02:09thing. You need it on the curriculum. So, the first period, maths, the second period, English, third period, drug education.
02:16It must be on the curriculum.
02:17Is there a model somewhere where that is happening?
02:19We have the model. But you mean if it is done in other jurisdictions? In other parts of jurisdictions?
02:24In the US and UK, they have these things.
02:26Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
02:30What are you guys whooshes?
02:31Hz Some of the things we do.
02:32Yes, you get to see.
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