August 17th, 2009 at 02:56pm
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When you shop for children’s toys, it is important to make sure that you know which toys are safe to buy for your kids and which ones are dangerous. Many toys in stores have been recalled but the stores continue to shelf them. If you have not been keeping up with the news and the toy recall list, then you could purchase some nice toys that your children will love but these toys might contain some harmful materials. You need to be very careful when buying toddlers toys or things for babies especially because even a small amount of dangerous substance present in toys can be very harmful to them.
It is a disturbing fact that hazardous toys continue to be sold in stores nationwide, despite multiple laws that are supposed to protect kids from hazardous toys. Toy safety is a major problem that parents worry about daily. While most of the toys on store shelves are considered safe, there continues to be a significant number of toys that pose a range of safety hazards to small children. Therefore, parents and child care providers need to exercise care in order to avoid injuries or deaths resulting from toy related issues. With more information, the scope of unsafe toys has been widened to include toys that were considered safe such as those labeled as phthalate-free. Bear in mind that even some products labeled phthalate-free may contain the dangerous chemical.
Although toy manufacturers should quickly recall unsafe products and provide parents the necessary information they need to allow them to purchase toys that are safe for their children, some of them just do not. You will have heard of many toy recalls on TV but there are many more toy recalls that you may not be aware of. Therefore, parents do not know that they are unsafe to use or buy. The government agency charged with keeping toys safe called The Consumer Product Safety Commission have published alerts and information on toy safety but there are still many manufacturers that ignoring warnings and still sell toys laden with toxic materials such as phthalates. The Consumer Product Safety Commission cannot do much about existing toys that are already out on the shelves.
If you think that you have a toxic, toxic and dangerous toy or any product that is unsafe, you need report the incident to the CPSC by calling a toll-free Consumer Hotline at 800-638-2772 (TTY 800-638-8270).
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August 16th, 2009 at 08:40pm
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When I was a sophomore in high school, I registered for a drug abuse class. At that age, I did not realize that alcohol abuse in reality was a sub division of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse, I read a lot about Alcoholic Anonymous, their meetings, how their programs have twelve steps, and how successful the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery program has been for people throughout the world. I also learned quite a bit about alcohol treatment and the different alcohol rehab centers that are commonly available to people who engage in hazardous drinking.
Some of the damaging outcomes related to alcoholism and alcohol abuse that I learned about in this class unquestionably scared me. The ruined lives and countless difficulties experienced by most alcohol dependent individuals made me feel like I never wanted to drink alcohol when I became old enough. That is, I did not want to face the wreckage and devastation that alcohol dependent people almost always experience.
Ponder upon this for a moment. What fifteen-year-old person wants to face premature death due to his or her drinking behavior? What teenager wants to become so out-of-control regarding his or her drinking that drinking alcohol becomes the object of one’s life? What adolescent wants to go to one of the local alcoholic rehabilitation centers to deal with alcohol-related issues before he or she becomes twenty-one?
What adolescent wants to encounter alcohol withdrawal symptoms when he or she tries to quit drinking? Why would a person engage in drinking to such an extent that it would cause problems in every area of his or her life? Drinking later in life after a person has a career, a family, and develops personal responsibilities makes sense. But why would a young person want to sacrifice his or her education, employment, finances, and relationships for a life that centers on hazardous drinking?
These issues were so meaningful that I discussed some of them in class during the school year. What was totally incredible to me was the number of students who basically didn’t care about the negative outcomes of excessive drinking that I discussed. It was almost as if they couldn’t be troubled with reality and how these outcomes can demolish their lives. For the first time in my life I started to comprehend something that my grandfather used to emphasize throughout my youth: you can lead a horse to water but you can’t force it to drink.
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