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On the danger of narcotics and the privileges of life without them |
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Narcomany is an illness, characterized by insuperable inclination to narcotics, leading to heavy disturbances of physical and psychic functions. From dictionaries |
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Of how to avoid the use of narcotics |
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Why people use narcotics? |
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The spreading of narcotic anticulture as the infection of modern Russia. | ||
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The desire of the youngsters to try narcotics arises in the background and under the influence of spreading into the society narcotic anticulture, spiritual and material. Spiritual narcotic anticulture is a sly social atmosphere: formally the society, majority of people are against the narcotics, but in fact very many now either indifferently relate to this calamity, or startle social opinion with their ambiguous and playful relationship to narcotics (musicians, singers, artists, writers, cinema people) or are even benevolently related to the use of soft narcotics and propagate them. Material narcotic anticulture is this development of narcotic market, narcobusiness, that is, the possibility of potential consumers to get narcotics easily (in discoteques, near the schools or even in the schools etc.) |
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The government itself recently has very sluggishly reacted on the distribution of narcotic anticulture (narcomanic epidemies). Only in these days the president of Russia led a special session of the Security soviet, dedicated to this problem. It was recognized that the narcotic infection has become a threat to national security of Russia. At the moment there are three million narcomans in the country (according to the expert assessment). This figure was presented by the minister of internal affairs B. Grizlov, speaking 20011017 at the session of the Federal Duma. | ||
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Young people must know, that from wherever the desire to try narcotics comes, it is to great extend the effect of narcotic anticulture. Young people sometimes do not recognize this. They think that the desire to try narcotics is exclusively their own choice. Still 20 years ago in our society there were practically no narcotics. The young people had no material possibility and no desire to use narcotics. Now the situation has abruptly changed. A strong narcotic anticulture has come into existence. It is the consequence of the fact that our Russian society became (after 1985-1991) open and yet did not succeed in getting immunity against the expansion of internal and foreign narcotic anticulture, striking some of the countries in the world. | ||
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(How far as the social atmosphere influences on the behavior of the young people, can be estimated according to the fact: the change in relationship of young people to the call into army. Now many young people relate negatively to the service in army and under all kinds of pretexts try to deny it. The colleges are overfilled with that kind of young people (studying in college gives the freedom of the service in the army). But more than 60 years ago, before the German attack on our country, there was a genuine boom of applications to army, young people tried to get in. Even not completely healthy tried all kinds of intricacies to deceive medical commission and to serve in the army (F247). And how is it now? – Medical commission is tried to deceive in order to get rid of army). | ||
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I am obliged to state: favorable conditions for the distribution of narcotic anticulture are created in the modern society. | ||
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From where comes the desire to try narcotics and how it can be fought against? |
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Sometimes young people get this idea of the unconscious or conscious endeavor to get grown-up quicker, to be the master of own life, to get rid of various kinds of caretaking (by parents, school etc.). | ||
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The priciple ’try everything’ does not know exceptions – therefore it is hard, childish, stupid. Young people, living to the grown-up age, do not any more follow this principle. Grown-up people excellently keep in mind that far from all ‘experiments’ are not accessible and justified, that the free choice has internal limitations. | ||
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1) A young person often asks his friends the pressing question: ‘But can you do it easily?’ This word ‘easily’ is for a young mind has for the young a genuinely magic power. They do not want to seem weak and therefore they are ready to commit thoughtless and dangerous acts, on which they never woud commit in a situation of being alone, ‘without witnesses (for example jump from a high level to the water, start to smoke, drink alcohol, be rude, steal, do violence, beat somebody etc.) | ![]()
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(My experience of the ’weak’: in the youth, when in my environment people of my age or older started smoking, I heard of them the suggestion that I should do the same followed by the sacramental phrase: ‘anyway, you are a man!’ (or: ‘you must be a man’!). On this I answered: yes, man is who starts snoking – it is undoubtedly a sign of grown-up people, but: an even more man is who knows this and despite it does not start smoking. Refraining from the temptation to start smoking, it is a demonstration of power, and not the weakness and fear.) | ![]()
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2) Second means to defend from ’weak’: I tried to avoid the acquaintance of such people, who can make such questions or decidedly detached from them. (I took the idea of life according to the proverb: ‘with whom you assocate, of them you also learn’.) It is not necessary to be afraid to separate from those friends and acquaintances who have a bad influence on you. I have done this several times and as a result I am alive, sound and safe. On the other hand I know of many cases where young people have suffered from having contact with bad society. You shoud know that the heroic narcoman has no brakes: he may kill for 5 dollars. And not of evil thoughts, but simply in order toi get money for buying of a portion of narcotics. Out of the syndrome of abstention narcoman experiences terrible pain, his reason stirs up and he is ready in that condition to get his portion by any means, even by murder. | ![]()
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I know personally some cases of loss of life or killing of young people connected with narcotics. Here some of these:
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All these cases of death or killing have in common that the victims turned out to be very young people and they were associated with narcomans. The conclusion here is one: to keep distance from narcomans, and if you learn that your friend takes narcotics, then decidedly and immediately break with him. My opinion: from narcoman must be run like from tsunami! Particularly this concerns of young people. With the help of their narcoman friends they unlikely can get stuck and be transferred to ‘history’, turn out to be completely victims of narcomans. | ||
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Young narcomans (yet not being at the end and wanting to live normal life) can make a question: but how must they be in order to turn back to normal life? Live in vacuum, be in contact only with same kind of people? To those I say: recognize that you are sick people (narcomans), that you can infect (entice to narcomania) other and therefore do not have any moral right to contact with anybody but medical personnel. You have only one way out: to be cured. Narcoman seeking contact with normal persons is for them as dangerous as a person infected by typhus or plague… | ||
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3) In contact it is only important to detach from the acquaintance with bad people, and search the acquaintance with good and strong people. (Again according to the proverb: ‘with whom you are friends, of them you learn’). Such rule and condition of life exists, based on experience: get in contact with strong and good persons, and you will self be stronger and better. A.V. Suvorov in his ‘Science of winning’ formulated genially a very important principle of self-education: ‘Take to you the model of a hero, observe him, go after his footsteps; catch him, overtake him, happy you’. | ||
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4) There are, of course, cases when man with whom you are in contact, may be sometimes good and sometimes bad, and strong and weak. Then already thinking is needed, weighed on scale: what is more in this person: bad or good, and on what side he more influences you: bad or good. | ||
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Special case is our idols. Because also among them there are narcomans. Certainly, the brightest example is Vladimir Vysotsky. True he did not start to take narcotics on his own will, but on medical indications, being cured from other illness and got infected five years before his death. He died, as is known, of ‘sharp heart inadequacy, which developed in the background of abstinency syndrome’ (the diagnose of doctors). Some of you or your narcoman acquaintances may refer to famous narcoman activists and say: here you see: even such great people, why not then us… | ![]()
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Here one ‘small’ circumstance does not count: famous narcoman people started to use narcotics being already in mature age, when they had reached already the top their creative form, that is, they became famous talents before the use of narcotics. If Vysotsky had started to use narcotics in the age of 15-17 years, he would never have been what he was. | ||
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You must remember: narcotics kill always – kill young, not giving them time to develop to talents and genial people, destroy the talent in the time of blossoming out, as it happened to Vladimir Vysotsky. (Separate cases of exception not taking into account, they being so rare that counting on them can only a stupid person). | ![]()
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Some start using narcotics out of dullness, of grayness of ordinary life. Young people want to bright, strong impressions and they search them. If they do not find, they go to any trick up to taking of narcotics. | ||
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When there is too little keef (enjoyment) in the normal life the it is searched outside the normal life. Enjoyment, joy must be thought of, searched continuously in the normal life. Believe me, normal joy and enjoyment exist much more than abnormal. In this matter I have already long time had a maxim: | ![]()
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‘Enjoyments in life are many, so many that for one man even thousand years are not enough to try them all. Therefore who wants to live reasonably, must choose out of the whole mass of enjoyment such which are useful for him, for the entire life.’ | ||
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Here is one recipee: love more, do not feel restrained, do not be ashamed of love, go and meet with it! Love is the sun of life, the most powerful engine and factor of life, thanks to which and other its sides and it as a whole, idea and meaning, enrichment is obtained, painted in rich colors. | ![]()
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Without love, without pleasures of love man is deprived a significant part of positive emotions. He may become such a misanthrope, psychopat, rapidly wither, decrepit, get old etc. | ||
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Insufficiencies of love, they are not only insufficiencies of positive emotions. There is not a holy place. Positive emotinons are mixed with negative. The latter are born either by depression, oppressed condition, dullness (emptiness of life), or irritation, exasperation, aggression. Many, very many problems arise from the lack of love. Man often also does not notice this. For instance, big part of conflicts with people is called by absence or insufficiency of love in the human life. A man not loving or loving too little is in the best case cold and indifferent with people, and in worst irritable and malicious. Or he has health problems. Insufficiency of love is an anomaly. And anomaly influences the state of health adversively. | ![]()
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In the life there must be a certain sum of love. It is approximately one half of life. Man must continuously be tuned to the wave of life, well disposed towards it, aspire it, do anything to get it existing, continue, develop. Not a day of life must be lost for life. | ||
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Love is a natural defender against narcotics. If it serves evil, then it is a to it belonging circumstance. In most cases it is normal, that is, such that it should be or take place for most men and women. The love itself, inside itself, is a whole world, delightful and very beautiful! | ||
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When many sufferings, pains (bad time at school, in the family, not wery well with health, nutrition, bad friends, acquaintances, neighbors). | ||
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With one word, man often begins to use narcotics, when he gathers too many problems for himself, he solves his problems, as by splitting the Gordion’s knot, with one blow: taking refuge to narcotic keef. | ||
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In order that the suffering would not seize man from the neck, he must in advance either remove and minimize their causes or harden himself, occupy, particularly with some kind of sport, physical culture, that is, begin to suffer, go and meet the suffering, not fe afraid of it. Learn to be a little masochist, this is not bad. (I already long time occupy myself with running of long distances, I am running minimum 10 km at a time. Every time this is a test, a suffering. Experiencing a manageable not very strong suffering, I this way make myself accustomed against the disturbing effect of strong suffering.) | ||
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A common reason of the beginning to use narcotics is unhappy circumstances at home, particularly alienation from parents. Young people sometimes is ‘on bad foot’ with father or mother and begins to use narcotics. | ||
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It happens, that family is externally in order, having sufficiency, but in spite of that the young person starts to use narcotics. From what comes this? | ||
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Here there can be many different reasons. Two basic fundamental: the despotism of father or mother, or on the contrary, their connivance. Either the child grows embittered, behaving badly towards parents, or spoiled, used to be satisfied in all his caprices. | ![]()
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In the relationships with children an exactingness and keenness must be observed. This is alfa and omega of education. | ||
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Still one fundamental thing: the busyness of parents, their alienation from the matters and problems of their children. Parents must try as much as possible create situations, in which they participate together with their children in some business (visiting exhibitions, concerts, theatres, going to nature, turism, sport, work on cottage, craftwork at home, hobbies etc.). It is important in this, that the participation of parents with children in these situations be mutually pleasant, unobligatory, natural, and not an obligation, not an act on checklist. | ![]()
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It must be kept in mind that in the modern society the role of parents in the education and instruction of children is relatively smaller than before. Strong began to influence School, street, friends, means of mass information, computer, books… Therefore parents must maximally use those few possibilities to common life at home, which still exist. I mean above all, common life at home, those spiritual and corporeal relationships, which exist originally in the family. Unfortunately gradually with the growth of children these spiritual and corporeal relationships almost totally vanish. Parents and children start to be ashamed of each other and hide fromm each other their problems and matters. The result is their alienation from each other. | ||
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The parents must teach children to things that the school and college do not do: the healthy view of life, love, understanding how to overcome difficulties, independence. For this they must settle with children the limits of sincere and open relationships, as it is possible between the most close people. Parents must be and become trusted to all matters and problems of their children. | ||
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Take for instance the sphere of relationships between man and woman. Parents, on purpose, avoid this theme and as a result leave their children alone with their problems. Children want to love and be loved; hormones already work in them (sometimes from early years); feelings tear them. But parents are in a way outside. Even more, in this period of increased interest of children in love matters and love relationships it is practically prohibited in the family. This is nonsense. Who if not parents, the closest people to children in spiritual and corporal relation, must (delicately, tactfully) participate in the love experience of children: not occupy themselves directly with their sex life, this is forbidden by moral, but reason openly all questions of sexual behavior and be bodily close, bodily together: wash together, do massage, playfully fight, caress, strip, occupy with physical culture and sports?! | ||
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Young people after the age of 15 years are already grown enough in order to discuss on equal level with parents. If they are not in good relationships with the family, the they must carefully think the strategy of behavior with the parents, not try to shed them from the shoulders, but also not keep them too closely attached with them. | ||
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It is very important to learn to reason, lead interesting discussion, discuss reasoning, think loud. | ||
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The habit must be learnt fo speak direct, firmly, without parasite words and of the essence of the question. | ||
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The art of oral discussion is very well helped by reading of poems of classical poets, good prosa aloud, keeping of diary, making notes of thoughts, poems, contents of books etc., discussion with friends, acquaintances, close people on different themes: films watched, books read, songs heard, music presentations, different occurrences in the world… With other words, as it is possible to speak and listen more, listen and speak, present questions (to oneself and to others), trying to answer the questions of others. Direct attention on own dictation, intonation, listen good speaking, learn from good speakers, speaking fluently and sticking in facts. | ![]()
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With one word, one must develop the speech and thinking. When you learn to speak well, then half of your problems are already solved. In any discussion, even in the most unpleasant, you will participate without the fear of showing stupidity or being funny. | ||
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I remember my speeches from the youth with my brothers and sisters, and with friends. Often I experienced pleasure of these discussion and pleasure and satisfaction of my own speech. This love to discussion in youth brought me in the end to that I with pleasure read lectures to students, write books (now already 20 books published!), with one word, I found myself, my idea of life. | ||
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Young people sometimes begin to use narcotics, not because that he experiences desire to try them, but because he listens the propositions and persuasion of friends, acquaintances, that is, shows elementary weakness of will. | ![]()
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What is such will? – Will is the property of man to manage his behavior. | ||
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I long ago developed for myself formulas of behavior, along which I try lead my life:
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Overcoming destructive dependence |
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In addition to narcotic there is still at least two destructive dependencies: alcoholic dependence and game dependence (roulette etc.). Narcotic, unconditionally, is the most dangerous and destructive dependence. From these destructive dependencies it is possible to get rid in two ways (or in one of them). | ![]()
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First way: strengthening of will with the help of special kind of activity (for example long distance running and, regular use of physical exercise, sport, meditation, suggestion and self-suggestion). | ![]()
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Second way: search and use of meaningfull constructive form of activity. Because destructive dependence usually arises in the background of depression or (temporary/constant) absence of serious meaningfull activities, as a result of what is caused by boredom, emptiness of life. Counterpositioning to unhealthy enthusiasm and passion the healthy enthusiasm and passion is here the second way (according to the proverb: ‘Rolling stones gather no moss’). | ![]()
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The second way is possible only on the condition that the person possesses enough will power. In the opposite case, he must from the beginning (or parallelly from the beginning) go on the second way (strengthening of will). | ||
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On the use of the so called weak (soft) narcotics |
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But the main thing is included in the following. If a person has begun to use narcotics, even if also weak, then this is a signal of the fact that he is already incapable to make own life interesting, clear, satisfactory without chemical ‘bones’, that is, without that something woud help in his brain immediately with the help of chemical substances. The user of narcotics is essentially a spiritual invalid. | ![]()
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STATEMENT OF NARCOLOG. In some countries some political activists are for the legalization of cannabis (hemp), more exactly its derivatives hashis and marijuana. These activists confirm that the produced marijuana – weak narcotics causes only moderate intoxication. | ![]()
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The concept of ‘weak’ narcotics is not accepted by medicine, nor by international laws. In 1961 cannabis was included into the Integrated convention of UN as narcotic substances, according to which all nonmedical use of the listed substances is prohibited. This convention is ratified by 148 coutries. Of the fact that cannabis causes different type of intoxication than for instance heroin or amfetamin, in no way follows that it is less harmful, sooner it is harmful in differen way. Cannabis strikes not so much the body, as the mind. This is especially disastrous for young people. The natural process of puberty ripening (becoming grown-up – L.B.) ceases or is braked, so that 25-30 year old users of cannabis (of them who smoke regularly) behave like children and teenagers, when it is question of responsibility for their own future, fulfilling of learning excercises, punctuality, works or fulfilling of parental obligations. Separate cases of normal behavior of hashis and marijuana smokers not considered. Because there are also alcoholists who every day go to work, and inveterate smokers of tobacco, who live to the deep olderdoom. In the case of cannabis the problem is, however, that mental abilities continually weaken. He simply becomes more and more stupid. And there is no insurance against that. | ![]()
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The smoking of Cannabis impairs also heart and lungs, the immunologic defence system, reproductive system (childbearing system) and disturbs the development of fetus. | ||
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Some smokers experience dramatic conditions, called ‘cannabis psychose’. This psychos is followed by general confusion, excitement and perversion of reality perception. Great part of of them who endure this sharp psychose, are never more cured. The intoxicating substance of cannabis TGC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol), is better dissolved in fat than in water (differing from other narcotics), and therefore is much longer conserved in the organism. It is enough to smoke only one time a week to have continuously some of this poison in the organism. | ||
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As also all narcotics, Cannabis develops dependence, and is capable of easily (and possibly also irreversibly) leading to misuse of other substances. In Germany more than half of those who turn for help because of the dependence of cannabis, misuse also heroin, and about 40 per cent also cocaine. | ||
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Smokers of Cannabis may be rather aggressive towards themselves and others. A research of 658 death cases connected with narcotics in Stockholm in 1986-1993 showed that in 52 bodies there was in the organism no other narcotics than TGC. The circumstances of death in this group carried expressly dramatic character: murder, suicide (in some cases jumping from great height under psychose) and road and transport accidents. It was shown that some of the killings were committed expressly during the time when the criminals were under the influence of cannabis. | ||
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F247Quite recently of this related in an interview in TV program aca-demician I. Spassky, president of NPO ‘Rubin’. ) Incontact it is only important to detach from the acquaintance with bad people, and search the acquaintance with good and strong people. (Again according to the proverb: ‘with whom you are friends, of them you learn’). Such rule and condition of life exists, based on experience: get in contact with strong and good persons, and you will self be stronger and better. comon reason of the beginning to use narcotics is unhappy circumstances at home, particularly alienation from parents. Young people sometimes is ‘on bad foot’ with father or mother and begins to use narcotics. F248To this may be added the following. Alcohol is produced by the whole organism of man and not in quality of waste, but to be used by organism, that is, small doses of alcohol is not not only harmful, but useful for the human organism. |
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