Alcoholism in the Somali community.

[Waaqo of Punt]

@Lostbox

A couple of months ago, I went to a city in Australia called Adelaide and I was shocked to see not one, but two young (early 20’s) Somali guys begging in the city. I spoke to one and asked him, what is your story? He said, he is addicted to the drug Ice which has devastated his hood (projects in working class areas) and nearly everyone there uses it. I don’t think there are more than 100 Somalis in that city. What about Melbourne or Sydney? I rarely go out to where Somalis hang at night because it’s either a shisha place and I hate that shit, or a hip-hop, reggae music venues where we are the Irish drunkards. I don’t know, I guess, it starts as peer pressure stuff, then attracts problems with family and the police and they become full time binge drinkers who are self medicating their sorrows with alcohol. I heard Somali kids as young as 14 drink alcohol on the weekends in the local parks in Melbourne. As I said, some will succeed and others will fail. A free country to self destruct.

That shit's sad.