You’re right about fishing being more dangerous than raving (I look at emergency service websites loads to see what cops are up to and you read about all the drownings and rescues etc) – but when people go fishing they can take precautions when going out such as wearing buoyancy aids, making sure the Coastguard knows where they are if they are at sea, and not using carbon fibre rods where there are power cables about on inland waterways….
we can do the same to look after ourselves, which is what this site is all about really..
Its the teenage/early 20 years which are the danger zones. You actually think you are indestructible (I used to think that) and peer pressure easily makes you cane more and more.
There is a real bingeing culture as well with both alcohol and drugs in the UK, some of the quantities I see teenagers consume nowadays shock me…. and now drugs are cheaper and more available than they ever were.
luckily I was one of the first people to obtain harm reduction info via the Internet (in 1991, before it was officially released to the normal population!)
Doing so got me in 2300 hectares of shit at college (they were very angry that I was using their resources to store “pro-drugs” info (although much of what I had was balanced stuff which advocated moderation)) but probably saved me from worse consequences (even so I overdid things in the old skool days).
The real dangers though aren’t so much from overdosing – but the more subtle problems like family and personal relationships breaking down or friends falling out with each other over drug use, spending money you haven’t got on drugs and turning to crime, or getting into a relationship where it is just lust and drugs rather than love and ending up having kids before you can look after them.
way too many people I know fucked themselves up and burnt themselves out too quickly. Out of a posse of about 20 of us from my estate who first went raving in 1991/2 about 3 are dead, various others on giro in unstable relationships with kids to look after that they can’t afford, or addicted to crack/smack or using needles. Many have been in and out of HMP and mental institutes for various reasons.
Thats a hell of a lot of screwed up people and disrupted families, (not to mention the cost to the NHS and other taxpayer funded authorities) – not surprising society doesn’t like raves all that much!
somehow I have managed to end up with a relatively decent job, and stable lifestyle whilst still finnding the time to party – in some ways it was luck and a supportive family (very important) but a lot is up to yourself and how you live your life….
