One Pill, Two Pill, Three Pill, Four, Five Pill, Six Pill, Seven Pill, Floor." Turn to page 372 in The Concise Oxford Dictionary and there it is, sandwiched somewhere between 'economy' and 'ecstatic' - the word 'ecstasy'. The wordsmiths who laboured over definitions added this behind the seven-lettered word -1. An overwhelming feeling of joy and rapture. 2. A trancelike state. 3.Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a powerful stimulant and hallucinatory drug (MDMA). On the streets of our cities, kids and dealers label the drug 'E' or XTC, some call it euphoria or love doves. [continues 666 words]
Addicted: 1. Dependent on as a habit; unable to do without. (addicted to heroin, addicted to smoking). The Oxford Dictionary In early February the Medigas company went to the Ottawa home of a 56-year-old man and seized his oxygen tanks. They had reason to believe that the occupant of the home was smoking while taking oxygen and acted before a tragedy occurred. Wise, eh? What company wants to see anybody become a human torch, blow up an apartment building, and be served a liability suit into the bargain. Yet time and again people with chronic respiratory problems dependent on in-house oxygen therapy smoke while taking oxygen. Steve Armstrong, division chief of fire prevention in Ottawa says that smokers have been known to lay the oxygen tubes from their nostrils on their shoulder while taking their next puff. As a result we have about three or four deaths each year in Canada from such accidents. [continues 759 words]
