Why Does Man Still Insist On Taking Drugs?

Why does man still insist on taking drugs?

                                 By John Totten

 

 After years of proven medical evidence and mass media attention man still gambles with taking drugs. Why?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(The following passage is taken from Wikipedia)

A drug, broadly speaking, is any substance that, when absorbed into the body of a living organism, alters normal bodily function.^[3] There is no single, precise definition, as there are different meanings in drug control law, government regulations, medicine, and colloquial usage.^[4]

In pharmacology, Dictionary.com defines a drug as “a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.”^[4] Drugs may be prescribed for a limited duration, or on a regular basis for chronic disorders.^[5]

Recreational drugs are chemical substances that affect the central nervous system, such as opioids or hallucinogens.^[5] They may be used for perceived beneficial effects on perception, consciousness, personality, and behavior.^[5][6] Some drugs can cause addiction and habituation.^[6]

Drugs are usually distinguished from endogenous biochemicals by being introduced from outside the organism.^{[citation needed]} For example, insulin is a hormone that is synthesized in the body; it is called a hormone when it is synthesized by the pancreas inside the body, but if it is introduced into the body from outside, it is called a drug.^{[citation needed]}

Many natural substances such as beers, wines, and some mushrooms, blur the line between food and drugs, as when ingested they affect the functioning of both mind and body.

(end of Wikipedia passage)

If you are a drug user can you please comment and outline your reasons for taking drugs?

• Teens

             The relationship between teens and drugs has been around for decades; however, this is not what you would call positive. Substance abusing (which is using drugs or alcohol in ways than can cause physical harm) is often associated with crime. But why do youths take drugs?

Youth take drugs for the following reasons: social disorganization, peer pressure, family factors, emotional, or rational choice. Social disorganization deals with drug abuse to poverty and disorganized urban environment. Drug use by youth minority group members has been tied to factors such as racial prejudice, low-esteem, social status, and stress produced from environment. The National Youth Survey found that drug use tends to be higher among urban youths.

Peer pressure is the most well-known reason for teens to partake in substance abuse. Some may argue that teen drug abuse is highly correlated with the behaviour of close friends especially when family supervision is weak. This relationship, in fact, is reciprocal: substance abusers seek out friends who engage in similar activities.

•  General

            Medicines Are Legal Drugs

If you’ve ever been sick and had to take medicine, you already know about one kind of drugs. Medicines are legal drugs, meaning doctors are allowed to prescribe them for patients, stores can sell them, and people are allowed to buy them. But it’s not legal, or safe, for people to use these medicines any way they want or to buy them from people who are selling them illegally.

Cigarettes and Alcohol

Cigarettes and alcohol are two other kinds of legal drugs. (In the United States, adults 18 and over can buy cigarettes and those 21 and over can buy alcohol.) But smoking and excessive drinking are not healthy for adults and off limits for kids.

Illegal Drugs

When people talk about the “drug problem,” they usually mean abusing legal drugs or using illegal drugs, such as marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, LSD, crystal meth and heroin. (Marijuana is generally an illegal drug, but some states allow doctors to prescribe it to adults for certain illnesses.)

 

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• Bad Experiences On Drugs

          LSD: Holy shit. The strangest substance on the planet. If you’re not a mentally strong person, don’t take this. It will change your personality and the way you look at the world. >It’s difficult to function at all on this drug and for that reason not many people use it consistently. Bad trips are very real and nearly impossible to escape without a hospital visit. It’s very, very possible to lose your mind. Every friend who was “really into acid” has had a bad trip at one point, it was usually their last.

        E(xtasy): Many debates about this one. It creates trackable physical changes in the brain. Too much of it will inevitably create a nearly inescapable depression.

      Alcohol: Yep. Had a friend involved in a car accident drunk. You don’t want to go through this. This drug’s danger is in it’s accessibility and the recursive effects; in that, it reduces your capacity for danger, so the drunker you get, the less of a problem you see with getting drunker

Pot: I’m told it’s not addictive, and it probably isn’t on the level of heroin… but… I’ve known a few people in my life unable to function without it. Gotta smoke before everything to make the experience better. Smoke before movies, smoke before eating, smoke before doing something that’s boring to make it more entertaining. Then they’re moody as hell when they don’t have it and only care about getting a hold of their dealer. It isn’t healthy. This drug’s greatest danger is in how “harmless” it appears to be. It probably is compared to other drugs, but consuming this all day is very, very bad for your life’s accomplishments.

            Lets just say i know a “guy” that took a lot of X all the time, he start off with 1 pill on the weekend, and then it became more pills lots more often.

It started to damage his kidneys , his personality was just nothing anymore. He began to hear voices, people talking to him that were not there (while not on the drugs)

Also, LSD , bad trip and almost killed himself while on it

(Above bad experiences taken from www.reddit.com )

So why does man still insist on taking drugs? Please comment.