Drug Abuse Help Thread

[Corey]

[size=1]I'd like to start up a drug abuse help/prevention/information thread here on the OB.
From what I know of the people here, there aren't a lot of addicts, but I'm sure there are some.

I wanted, 1), to get clearance for this before I posted it and, 2), to ask if there is any feature available to implement an anonymous posting option, or allow 'Guest' posts in the thread. I'd like to keep it anonymous for the people that don't want their problems to be publically known. For the 'Guest' posts, they could log out from their normal OB username and post as a Guest, signing their name or anything else.[/size]

[James]

[font=franklin gothic medium]I'm not aware of any anonymous posting option, unfortunately. At least, not anything that we carry with us right now (though there might be hacks available for it).

This type of thing is very touchy, because OtakuBoards is designed to be an entertainment destination. We do have our serious discussions, but something like this possibly goes beyond people simply offering their opinion and experiences.

What I'm really trying to say is that it's one thing to ask people their opinion and advice on a subject (be it drugs or something else). But it's another thing for us to attempt to provide serious/official advice to people who might be abusing drugs. If you were to create a thread about this subject, I'd rather it was more purely about opinions and experiences - but it might be useful to provide links to drug abuse assistance services or something like that. My feeling is that it's better to direct people to properly-trained sources of assistance.[/font]

[Corey]

[size=1]Understandable.
I am glad that I asked before I went on with the topic.
Thanks James.[/size]