Toil Sound System Free Party – 24th july 2004 Party this weekend!
Land owners permission!
Camping!
In a Wood!
Toilets!
Crakin' weather!
You Know it makes sense!
Check web site for details and directions!
http://www.toilsoundsystem.com
The hidden casualties of Thailand’s war on drugs Get-tough policy has kept HIV infection rates high, pushed addicts underground, far from help...
BANGKOK -- Bored and despairing in a Bangkok slum, Paisan Suwannawong made a slow but steady transition from smoking marijuana to smoking heroin 20 years ago. He was soon addicted, and one day when he was in withdrawal and could not afford to buy more to smoke, a friend offered to share a needle.
Through the next few years of addiction, he started to hear talk that there was some risk of contracting HIV from a shared needle. But Mr. Paisan, now 38, was in and out of police custody.
"I could not carry a needle around because if the police arrested me, the charge would be more serious," he told delegates to the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok last week. And so he continued to share. "When you are craving heroin, you don't think about anything else," he said. "You just want to inject." It took 13 years for him to kick the habit.
In a rehabilitation centre, he learned he had contracted HIV. He believes he got it during one of his two stints in prison, where he injected "almost every day" amid conditions so oppressive that even non-users were driven to start taking drugs.
But Mr. Paisan quickly found that there was little help for an HIV-positive drug addict. Although international AIDS experts have heaped praise on Thailand because of the country's remarkable success in lowering its infection rate -- the number of new infections declined by 80 per cent from 1990 to 2000, possibly the best turnaround in the world -- help for intravenous drug users has not been part of Thailand's response plan. In fact, it has been quite the opposite.
In early 2003, the government launched a harsh "war on drugs" that drove injection users underground and helped to keep infection levels among addicts at more than 40 per cent. (Research suggests there are anywhere between 100,000 and 250,000 injection-drug users in Thailand today.)
Human Rights Watch says that there have been more than 2,000 unexplained extrajudicial killings since the campaign against drugs began, and that thousands more people have been arbitrarily arrested. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said when he kicked off the crackdown that drug users would be considered "a security threat" and ordered his police to deal with them in a "ruthless" manner, according to a recent Human Rights Watch report on the issue.
Mr. Thaksin has since said that Bangkok's mind set has changed. "We now see drug users as patients who require our support and treatment," he said, promising to start harm-reduction efforts.
But it is unclear whether those efforts will include the provision of methadone or clean needles, key elements of a harm-reduction plan. There is still no needle exchange in Thailand, and drug use remains illegal. Those who are arrested are given a choice of prison or military-run "rehabilitation" centres.
Consequently, addicts hide and share needles, avoid being tested for HIV and are unable to get treatment when they develop full-blown AIDS. Just 1 per cent of Thai drug users receive any HIV prevention services, according to rights groups.
"It's amazing to me that you could do something so damaging as fast as they did it," said Susan Sherman, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who works with Thai drug users.
Thailand's combative position on drugs puts the country at odds with the top international bodies working to check the spread of AIDS, all of which have recognized that injection-drug users have to be specifically engaged since they are such a huge source of infection.
"The government talks about prevention -- sure, with men who go to sex workers. But it's not more than that. And if we weren't having an AIDS conference here, they wouldn't be scaling up treatment," said Mr. Paisan, who helped found the Thai Drug Users' Network in 2002. The plan was to document abuse and mistreatment of drug users by police, but has grown into a lobby effort for HIV-prevention services.
Mr. Paisan believes that the government's response illustrates a larger failure to understand the importance of needle-and-blood-borne HIV transmission. The addict-turned-activist said it is emblematic of Thailand's treatment of other marginalized groups, such as migrant labourers and sex workers, none of whom are perceived to be politically important.
"We live in a country dominated by corporate people . . . the public perception is that drug users, or men who have sex with men, or migrant workers, they are not important or influential," he said.
Earlier this year, Mr. Paisan's organization became one of only two non-governmental organizations in the world to be awarded a grant from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: $1.3-million (U.S.) that will be used for services such as needle exchange. His group took the step of applying on its own, the activist said, after the Thai government refused to consider services for drug users in its own application to the fund.
UNNATURAL ACTIVITY IN THE WOODS
24/07/04
PSYCHOSIS SOUND SYSTEM
we're back for some more
DIRTY PARTY ACTION
Main stack playing TechnoTrance till silly o'clock sunday afternoon
(PSYCHOSIS SOUND SYSTEM DJs)
Chilled area for all you cool cats
(TBC......)
SOUTH EAST UK
partyline numbers will no longer be posted on the internet,
buy use your loaf, seek and ye shall find...........
http://cheekyhalf.net
Parties in/Around Prague ?? Hello All !! :-)
My girlfriend & I are getting married 20th Aug & going to Prague for our honeymoon..
(23/08/04 - for 8-10 days ?)
If anyone knows of parties gong on in the area... drop us a line
If you're in Prague, maybe we'll see you there....
Cheers (include pay parties, if they're good )
PLUR
Dave the Hat
Something big is kicking off near Sheffiled on the August bank holiday! This FATMOON is going to be a really exciting party!
Something big is kicking off near Sheffiled on the August bank holiday!
...so keep the Saturday 28th of August free for some Full Power Psychedelic partying with FATMOON fullmoon freeparties ...and many others!!
further details to follow
check the web site or ring
07814369133
for more info or if you want to get involved....
best wishes see you soon
love Cheryl Fatmoon x
No ADs just Temazepam! I always thought my bad quality sleep was causing and certainly not helping my depression. Since my GP put my on Temazepam I have stopped taking ADs particularly Mirtazapine and Effexor 4 weeks ago. I feel great better than on the ADs. Myself once more. A full 8-9 hours sleep is great. Now it is summertime and we only get a 6-7 hour night. So thats plenty of daylight. When winter comes? That might be a different story, I am moving to South Africa next year to avoid SAD which is a trigger for my major depression.
My only concern is tranq addiction. I have got 100 Diazepam 10mg pills hanging around for a rainy day.
july 24: disco agents/gracie chavez All house. All night. Featuring Disco Agents, Gracie Chavez
Calendar: Events
let_love_prevail
07-24-2004
Joing us Saturday, July 24 for a night of the finest house music around presented by the Disco Agents along with the fabulous sounds of Gracie Chavez.
All house. All night.
Gracie is definately going places. As of right now she is one of the best local talents when it comes to house. Disco Agents are right up there next to Ms. Chavez. They have so kindly decided to come together for July 24th even though they each are busy with their own agenda. We are truly greatful!
Doors will be open at nine pm.
This is Strictly 21+. Sorry kids, establishment rule.
Th' damage: $8 @the door
Drink Specials will be going on from 9 pm until last call.
Beer: $2 domestics, $2.5o imports
*** fyi: there are 39 different types of beer****
Liquor: $3. - $3.5o per drink
Food: ranges from $1.25 - $4.5o (tacos, quesadillas, burgers)
If you need a break from dancing there are pool tables(the kind you activate with quarters), dartboards, and of course the bar.
Absolutely no standing on the dance floor. There is plenty of places to sit and enjoy.
To all my struggling house music lovers: I will personally mail you a discounted price if $8 is to much. Just send me an email, subject reading: july 24th (or else it gets tossed out with my junk mail), include a home address and I'll send you a discounted pass. No problemo.
See ya' there!
xoxoxo,
LLP
6603 Westcott
houston, tx
off I-10 near 610
where is the rave around chichester hello im looking 4 a rave around chichester brighton porsmooth 4 to night could be nice to give me a hand coz i really miss party since i left france
thanx
Anyone gonna try and blag in to the GLADE Tryin desperatly to get to the glade festival,got no ticket but gonna try and blag in on sunday.Does anyone know what the security is like.
Any one else goin down?
Pams House UK This post is for a kick-ass party yet to come!
For any of you that live in the UK, go to this!
Saturday 24th July
Pams House return to Club M Newmarket (East Anglia region)
featuring the Queen of HardHouse LISA LASHES & Pams Guests
Funky Room feat Jamie Hales & guests
Advance Tickets 01603 667945
for more info go to www.pamshouse.com
I've been a regular to Pam's House for the past 2 years, and i LOVE every single party.
Pam's organises roughly one party a month, and everyone that goes there loves it, so why dont U give it a try? :)
Later on this year, they are also going to organise a MENTAL festival that any self-respecting Dance lover should go to!
Lots and lots on offer!!!!!!
pm me for more info!
Yorkshire area hiya
Is there anything on in next couple of weeks in the yorkshire area? pref west yorks?
Friends going to pretensious clubs and I do not like it. Gone to parties in Wales and London but would like to know what was going on closer to home?
Hope to hear from you soon.
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