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Whanau against Drug and Alcohol abuse
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- Mauri Ora
- Me, Myself, and I
- This group is formed for all Whanau out there who want to fight the drug and alcohol abuse epidemic. We are not here to judge.
Ngaa Taonga,Ngaa Tamariki,
Koutou kua wheturangitia
I o tatou tupuna
Our children our treasure
You who have been adorned as stars
Of our ancestors
Good Web sites & contacts
www.fightagainstp.com
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.nz
Ph: 0800 229 6757
www.nsad.org.nz
www.sadd.org.nz
www.dare.org.nz
www.alac.org.nz
www.urge.co.nz
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CHRISTMAS Eve overdose of cocaine nearly saw Mike King literally crippled by his addiction.
A CHRISTMAS Eve overdose of cocaine nearly saw Mike King literally crippled by his addiction.
"I had a big bag of high-grade coke 'cause it was Christmas (2006)," he recalls.
"Friends came over and said let's go for a ride on the motorbikes. I went into my room, and thought I better have a quick chop before I go. I broke this block and it went everywhere. I lined it up and went bang, and snorted the lot. I did about a gram and a bit...an obscene amount of gear.
"I knew instantly, I'm really travelling too fast. I jumped on my bike. I went round a corner going too fast, ran out of road and rode into a strainer post at 120kmh, broke my back and damaged the carotid artery in my neck.
"I don't know how I got through the next few days, but I didn't go to the doctor until the New Year.
"They said, `You've broken your back, it was a couple of vertebrae up from the bottom of the back.' There's nothing we can do but just rest up."
Three weeks later, with the neck injury undetected, he flew to Melbourne to take part in a major poker tournament.
A clot from the carotid artery tear travelled to his brain and he suffered a massive stroke causing locked-in syndrome just like that portrayed in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
"I'm lying in this coma. I can't even move my eyes. If people talk to me, I can only answer them in my head. I've seen myself in the mirror. One side of my face had dropped, eye bulging, dribble coming out of my mouth. I'm yawning, constantly rocking backwards and forwards, no control over anything.
"I was thinking, `Why am I here?', it's all to do with karma and obviously you haven't done right in your life and this is the result. I've had all these opportunities to make a difference in people's lives, and I chose to go down this path of drugs, alcohol, fame, ego. I got this overwhelming sense of regret."
King's wife Rose rushed to the hospital to witness a medical miracle. A thrombolysing drug broke up the clot and just hours later her husband regained all movement.
But the joy was dulled by a phone call to say her cancer-stricken 75-year-old dad Toko Nathan had died.
King recalled: " I had told my father-in-law, `I'm going to Australia'.
"He grabbed a hold of me. He said, `No, you can't go'. He started crying, and I start crying too. I said, `Look I've got to go, you'll be here when I get back', and he said, `No, you can't go!'.
"I don't know if it's a Maori thing, and I'm not particularly religious, but I believe that the old boy took my place. So I came out of hospital and I went, `I'm going to change my life'."
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But his good intentions went out the window when he returned home.
"I remembered that I still had cocaine in the house, and as I drove down my driveway I could hear it calling me. I went into my bedroom, burst into tears, started chopping up. I remember snorting this gear, going, `You are the most pathetic weak person in the world, you've had a stroke, what the hell are you doing?"' http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-news/n...0 Comments 193 weeks
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Mike King's coccaine hell
EXCLUSIVE: “For a fi t and healthy person I had an insane amount of drugs to try to snort my way through but for a man who was still recovering from a major brain injury it was nothing short of suicide,’’ King told Sunday News in an exclusive interview.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/2838315/Mikes...
“I wanted out. Seven years of drug-induced torture was about to reach the ultimate climax in a sh*tty little hotel room in Hong Kong and I honestly did not care. At least here no one I loved would fi nd me. At least here I would get away clean.’’
King, 47, said the hotel-room nightmare was the culmination of 30 years of addiction which went hand-in-hand with and fed his mental illness, depression.
“Whenever life became too diffi cult, drugs would magically make that problem disappear. Drugs became my safety
net. For years this was my life until one day I woke up with the realisation that the solution to my problems had become
the problem.’’
Somehow King found the strength and courage to walk away from that hotel room and today will be 890 days drug and
alcohol-free. He has bravely bared his soul to launch the Mental Health Foundation-backed Your Story competition, starting today in Sunday News. For the next four weeks, we will be asking people to tell us their story about how they have battled or are battling addiction, depression or any other mental illness.
The cocaine chapter in Mike's story began after a stand-up comedy gig at Manukau in 1996.
"I talk about marijuana in my routines so after gigs lots of people would palm me off a joint.
"Some guy shook my hand and there was something in it, and I went, `Ooh, a joint'.
"I looked at it and it's a little bag of white powder. I went, `What the hell's that'. I was with an American...and he said, `Hey, let me show you what that is'. We went into the toilet and chopped it up, and bam, the most amazing feeling ever.
"I remember getting this hot flush and then vomiting. I splashed water on my face and my temperature came back down, and this overwhelming incredible feeling came over me."
While cocaine was scarce in his homeland, King travelled to a London awash with it the following year. A fan at one of his shows turned out to be a dealer and King "fell in love" with the drug.
After seven weeks he came home hooked.
Going to Las Vegas in 2000 to see the David Tua v Lennox Lewis fight, he found another city "swimming in it". He returned home to find cocaine had finally hit his homeland "big time...(and) it was great quality".
Sourcing the drug wasn't a problem. "You're in the entertainment game, and people want to be your friend. How do they be your friend? They give you sh*t. You want to be affable and you like what they're giving.
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"Before you know it, you're just in this perpetual cycle."
Cocaine initially lifted King out of despair from undiagnosed depression aggravated by long-term cannabis use.
"By that stage in my life, I'd been using marijuana for nearly 20 years, so I was constantly in these deep dark holes.
"With the depression, you end up with voices in your head...`You're useless, you're no good'. I'd do gigs where there'd be 1000 people in the audience, 999 of them are p*ssing themselves but all I'd see was one guy hating it. In my head while I was working, I'm going, `He knows you're a phoney'. "The go-fast drugs, the cocaine, I thought they were dragging me out of the hole."
Cocaine also initially made him feel in sync with everyone around him, satisfying the overwhelming need to be universally liked he had felt since a young boy.
"I was always one of those needy kids, looking for acceptance, and couldn't find that niche. So when I found comedy, I found something I was good at.
"And now I found cocaine, which allowed me to be the chameleon, to fit into all of these different groups of people. So it was like nirvana for me."
But the chemical "solution" was a short-lived0 Comments 193 weeks
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POEM AGAINST CHILD ABUSE
My name is Sarah
I am but three,
My eyes are swollen
I cannot see,
I must be stupid,
I must be bad,
What else could have made
My daddy so mad?
I wish I were better,
I wish I weren't ugly,
Then maybe my Mommy
Would still want to hug me.
I can't speak at all,
I can't do a wrong
Or else I'm locked up
All the day long.
When I awake I'm all alone
The house is dark
My folks aren't home.
When my Mommy does come
I'll try and be nice,
So maybe I'll get just
One whipping tonight.
Don't make a sound!
I just heard a car
My daddy is back
From Charlie's Bar.
I hear him curse
My name he calls
I press myself
Against the wall.
I try and hide
From his evil eyes
I'm so afraid now
I'm starting to cry.
He finds me weeping
He shouts ugly words,
He says its my fault
That he suffers at work.
He slaps me and hits me
And yells at me more,
I finally get free
And I run for the door.
He's already locked it
And I start to bawl,
He takes me and throws me
Against the hard wall.
I fall to the floor
With my bones nearly broken,
And my daddy continues
With more bad words spoken.
'I'm sorry!' I scream
But its now much too late
His face has been twisted
Into unimaginable hate.
The hurt and the pain
Again and again
Oh please God, have mercy!
Oh please let it end!
And he finally stops
And heads for the door,
While I lay there motionless
Sprawled on the floor.
My name is Sarah
And I am but three,
Tonight my daddy
Murdered me.
Please pass this poem on as a Blue Ribbon Against Child Abuse because,
as crazy as it might sound, it might just indirectly change a life....0 Comments 193 weeks
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What do you think about random drug testing in schools?
- I think it is not a good idea.
- Good idea, they drug test atheletes & in work places.
- Not sure
- Won't work
- Needs to be done
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Why have you joined this group?
- To fight the Drug & Alcohol abuse epidemic.
- To share your story.
- You have Whanau you want to support.
- Had enough of babies getting killed from abuse.
- All the above.
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Are abusers hurtful because they use alcohol or other drugs?
- Only when they are really drunk.
- No
- When they are provoked.
- All the time.
- They have abuse problems when they are sober too.
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Mikayla Frew7/9/09vinilla seed oil(cooking stuff helps your back hard out.) moderation if your not gunna stop
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6/29/09
Gabrielle Thompson
Kia 0ra Kautau He uri au no te Awa o Whanganui... I grew up in a circle of violence hence my aid (shelter & protection) harboured in alcohol & drugs, hence married into the same circle. However, Times have changed, families eventually grow from past demons, where I once was. Nevertheless! Families do their all to overpower me with their violence, but a scare to them, I stand no nonsense, life is too precious for demonic excuses to be domineered by their spirits of darkness. Call in peoples, visit my page, I am into a Non Violent Community, Schools, Families & Nation. Drug Free & in control of alcohol that no longer rules me. If I'm to drink its a once in a life time, and with manner
Love & Bless You All...
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Chooky Karaka8/26/08The original pic says it all eh..
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Sueanne TePuni7/17/08As far as the kahui twins man that was just so sad man un called 4 im a memba of stop child abuse and i tell u wat hurts most on thea is i see most all but 1 or 2 r Maori children i cryed so hard the storys that happen to them wats wrong wid our pple man they cant keep blaming others 4 their own actions Maoris need to stop the drug alcohol and Child abuse man its sickenin hard no more excusses stop hurtin our loved 1s cause ur fustrated. My mana and wairua hav left me long tym ago and im stil serchin to get it bak due to all 3 of the abuses my parents put me threw but instead of hating and hurtin im moving on and serching 4 peace so my children and thea children dont hav to c and go threw wat i did any way lots of love to u and go hard....
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Sueanne TePuni7/17/08Kia ora te whanau Ko Hikurangi te maunga Ko Waiapu te awa Ko NgatiPorau te iwi Well wea to start i am a mother of 3 and am only 26 i grew up round alcohol that bad every tym my whanau drunk i feared wat was gana hapen hu was gana get hurt till the day i pick up alcohol and man wat do u think hapen i become like them that bad no1 liked me i started at 12 full on drinkin till i was 24 shockin it was my children that woke me up they feared 4 my safety and couldnt stand watchin me speow i felt hurt and outa control well its been 2 yrs nealy and i ant touched a drop and i dont even miss it all im tryin 2 say is its a cycle that gose on and no1 is willin 2 break it well it will go on and on.My life is much happyer now sobbers as and c ing my whanau stil drinking hurts like hell cause they still the same and the worst is even if u tell them it hurts they just dont care anuf 2 stop well im glad i cared enuf to stop cause realy they the only1s who care and love me hard out and i luv them.
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Taame6/28/08morena naa uri oo te motu, kei te tohe au ki naa uri e mahi kore take nei i naa whaanau i kahununu, kia tuupato koutou....
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Whanau against Drug and Alcohol abuse5/4/08Kia Ora for your honest oppinion and the courage to share.
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Whanau against Drug and Alcohol abuse4/18/08Tena koe ehoa, Not sure what you mean?? Yes I agree some of us can drink in moderation and some of us can not talk about the experience of what others have gone through and good to hear your oppinion. I lived with an alcoholic father for years and violent husband. I chose not to over indulge and turned my back on drugs. Those who join this group join to fight the epidemic that it has brought our people and talking and bringing it out in the open is a choice too. It takes courage to speak out. Kia ora wahine toa. Mauri Ora kare.
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4/17/08
KElly Zappia
hey hope all is good in ur world .. page is looking well nice keep up the great work n good to see all the surrport ur getting god bless kelly
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Whanau against Drug and Alcohol abuse4/14/08Thanks heaps to the gentleman below for the skin. I like your group. Need one for the young ones on bebo too. They need protection from preditors.
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3/22/08
Nay Nay
Hey Zapps just read your poem down below. Awesome babe I am so proud of you day in and day out you are truely an inspiration to not only myself but to the days ahead. I love you and tresure you bro.
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3/15/08
KElly Zappia
am Crystal Meth. This was written by a young girl who was in jail for drug charges, And was addicted to meth. She wrote this while in jail. As you will soon read, she fully grasped the horrors of the drug, as she tells in this simple, yet Profound poem. She was released from jail, but, true to her story, the drug owned her. They found her dead not long after, with the needle still in her arm. Please keep praying. This thing is worse than any of us realize... I destroy homes, I tear families apart, I take your children, and that's just the start. I'm more costly than diamonds, more precious than gold, The sorrow I bring is a sight to behold. If you need me, remember I'm easily found, I live all around you - in schools and in town I live with the rich, I live with the poor, I live down the street, and maybe next door. I'm made in a lab, but not like you think, I can be made under the kitchen sink. In your child's closet, and even in the woods,
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Whanau against Drug and Alcohol abuse3/6/08Kia Ora everyone, The Hope group below is excellent. Take time to read it.
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Andrea3/5/08Hey
Umm im not really sure if the question on OYETTS was directed at me but ill answer anyways hehe.. Im from Taranaki... in New Zealand
... Take care xoxo Andrea
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Whanau against Drug and Alcohol abuse1/25/08Thanks again for your comments. Research does show that some drugs, especially narcotics, cause disturbances in the brain to induce violence. We have evidence in NZ with Child abuse and Murders from those who have smoked "P" There is also evidence that Cannabis causes psychosis. I have questioned a number of people who have had their Mental Health Challenged, as I have, and they all said they had smoked Cannabis. Not sure if they had experienced any violence, I didn't ask, but their has been evidence to the fact. And of course Cannabis is much stronger these days and sometimes laced with "p". I wish you well.
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Citrusmod1/12/08Opportunities at school are limited for British children Granted - Basic mathematics, and English need to be taught, but you should think by the time a kid turns 13yrs old they can communicate properly and count adequately (I know there r exceptions) College in schools from the age of 13yrs old would benefit society as a whole... Eg.. Kid enjoys and excels in cabinet making - then surely would the main focus not be better attending to these needs of the children... Rather than ramming Pythagoras theorem down their throat.. Throw in a few lessons a week consisting of life skills eg Once u get a job/economizing, banks,budgeting what money you may have when you do start working.. Then alls fair and well-for the Academics that enjoy getting stuck in to a good old book or 2 open up classes which focus on their ambitions and routes they would like to follow.. These are just examples but i believe a better Britain would be a restructuring of our Education system.. Thanx4reading
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Citrusmod1/12/08done your blog..... I am very interested how the Human brain works regardless of self medication or alcoholism.. I have had drug problems in the past but was never violent, drugs do not bring on violence; although i will say binge drinking can... If you care to read my comments on your blog you will find my, and i stress only my opinion on this matter.. It is a very good issue to be addressing, and if our British Government would address these problems where they start (normally - but not all of the time) childhood, we would live in a much more sociable society.. Children are classless... 1. when a kid is bad they r sent to the back of the classroom Alternative - bring them to the front of the room talk politely to them, n at least try to find the cause 2. Our education system is designed to fail us - every1 can't be lawyers Alternative - by about 13 yrs old kids know what they are good at..Why don't we introduce the college system for these kids earlier.























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