Day: March 10, 2015

My name is Gina and I’ve decided to ask the bank for a loan for my sisters treatment and her daughter,I’ve also decided go to rehab to help me beat my drug addiction and  get a job so I can provide for my niece( if i can’t raise enough money for my sisters treatment then i can at least take care of family I have left right?), I wasn’t in the right mind to make big decisions back then, it was drug induced actions .the money that  project prevention provided didn’t help me much. only as a temptation to buy more crack and for what ,the potential life of my child, my niece’s potential cousin gone and no chance for another. After that I promised never to put myself or anyone I love into that kind of situation again and to never go to project prevention for half-ass answers either.

Project prevention in my personal opinion are overrated. They only focus on preventing drug addicts from consieving any children. Which is a Nobel cause but can be so more effective if they gave a crap about the people on drugs instead of taking advantage of them. Project prevention pays drug addicted women up to £300/$500 after they are sterilised, which will most likely lead to them buying more drugs and after that money’s gone they will do anything to reach their next high, even resorting to selling drug themselves on impressionable teenagers, which can lead to more unwanted pregnancies to eventually more abortions and sterilising for money to get more drugs and a cycle is created. This is off the top of my head but how about spending time, effort and money(because they clearly have so much to pay a lot of druggies to get sterilised) to help them beat their addictions which would fix and stabilise their lives( including mental health). And Hopefully these people will become responsible, productive members of society and if they also happen to become parents well your job in preventing drug affected children is done. Just by giving drug addicted women a little help it can instantly help the young.

My name is Gina I am 18 and I believe life is no longer worth living. Last month my bastard of a father abandoned me, my 20 year old sister and her two year old daughter, this is only the beginning. Recently my sister was diagnosed with cancer and would die within three weeks if not treated, unfortunately for us ever sense dad left we’ve barley been able to survive. There’s no one who could help us. Knowing I was going to left alone raising a child when i can’t be responsible for myself, I just needed a way to escape so… I took some heroin and it was glorious but I couldn’t stop there so tried so … I tried heroin and I became addicted ,but I couldn’t stop there so I also took some cocaine, crack, angle dust and magic mushrooms. Five days later I found out I was pregnant, my heart skipped a beat while me entire body filled with fear. I couldn’t bring a child into this world knowing its horrible future so I had an abortion and got myself sterilized.

From a performance about addicted women and project prevention. I have seen and participated in a few, the one most recent is about a woman who’s addiction costs her, her child which leads to a debatable suicide at the end. One creative technique we used was having other people say horrible things that could’ve been said to her in her past and repeat it to show the woman slipping into madness and then judgemental thoughts are said in response to her  foolish decisions to regain sanity but fails.

For staging it was made clear who Focus should be on by having the drug addicted woman in front except for when she gets herself sterilise hidden away from the audience, to signify project preventions shady ness. The performance slightly taps on the possibility that project prevention is only a short term solution not in any way trying to help the people dangerously addicted to drugs to insure the child be happy with the one who are supposed to look after them.

The group could’ve brought more attention to the actual programme that claims to help and care for children who are  involved with drugs.