Well the occasional turns into a regulated habit eventually..especially if friends are at the influencing part.
And the "only once" turns into all the time if it was done for a fast fix on the happy time all the time-train.
I'm sure you're not looking for the health hazards here because you probably know more than I do on that
You're looking more for the should we really interfere into someone's personal choices like that?
Had it been a one time thing then dippity doo da dip everything's fine and dandy. But it isn't.
If the person has money for the first time,they won't have money for all the other times where the addiction must have gotten worse resulting in needing even more.
That could lead to lying,stealing,almost non existing family relationships and even killing because a person would actually go that far just to feed the addiction so you can say byebye to any form of sound judgement at that point.
It could also lead to reckless driving(more innocent car crash victims),unsafe sex(STDs)
Wave goodbye to society from there.
(Okay...maybe super exaggerating here but it could happen on the bigger picture scale eventually)
Assuming that I wanted to try drugs,it is my body.It is also my responsibility.I am responsible for taking proper care of it especially that many people suffer from painful diseases and here I am ruining my good health.
(Trying to stay away from the religious "A person's body is a gift given to them" idea here and focusing purely on the responsibility part)
An addict also hurts those who care most about them as well...it stops being personal here.It starts being selfish.Bad selfish.
Also....addicts are not happy.Maybe "happy" in the moment yes,but eventually everything catches up to them.Relationship problems,financial problems,health problems in addition to the feeling of guilt if they ever wanted to stop and failed.Drug use could be also followed by depression.That leads to even more drugs.
It's bad all over...no matter how you see it.
No one content would resort to drugs to get happier...natural happy is just better so something must be wrong.Even if things seem perfect to other people something must be wrong deep down.
Maybe they got tricked into using even if things were going fine for them....but they will get unhappy due to the reasons aforementioned.
About the drug addicts,people should get a life and stop looking down on them...especially if they are trying to change or actually did change.Those who did not change need help not things worsened.
I am in no position to judge someone as weak minded.There could be deeper reasons that I am not aware of that dragged them to it and yes living conditions could contribute to drug abuse.I said contribute not force because maybe someone different with similar conditions does not necessarily resort to drugs.It's about how people perceive things and deal with them.(The deeper reasons could very well affect that)
Everything has a reason...they're using for a reason.Fix that before pointing fingers at them.This particularly is addressed to family,friends,surroundings,professionals,schools, and the authorities.
Also everyone makes mistakes so people should get off of their high horses for once.
Long post again ..but anyway thank you for the new threads every now and then
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