Why do people take drugs?

NIMAN · 01-08-2017 11:56PM #1

After watching a news report tonight about some new drug that's apparently started killing Britons, after it took Prince and loads of other Americans, the question popped into my head, "why take drugs at all".

We have all seen more documentaries than we can remember showing how much damage they do, and I'm still waiting to hear the story of that person whose life got better through the use of hard drugs, so why bother starting? Are people that stupid that they think it's going to end well?

Fred Swanson · 01-08-2017 11:57PM

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Harry Palmr · 01-08-2017 11:57PM

Curious fools with little or no self control for the most part. lazy feckless wasters fueling murderous criminal empires

what? :mad:

Insect Overlord · 02-08-2017 12:00AM

To get to the other side.

Fr_Dougal · 02-08-2017 12:02AM

Because heroin tickles.

Tom Mann Centuria · 02-08-2017 12:03AM

NIMAN wrote: »

After watching a news report tonight about some new drug that's apparently started killing Britons, after it took Prince and loads of other Americans, the question popped into my head, "why take drugs at all".

We have all seen more documentaries than we can remember showing how much damage they do, and I'm still waiting to hear the story of that person whose life got better through the use of hard drugs, so why bother starting? Are people that stupid that they think it's going to end well?

I'm sure I've read of creative people becoming much more creative whilst on drugs, so they may feel their life is better as a result of taking drugs.

It's unlikely there are many feelgood stories regarding longterm taking drugs, but its even more unlikely we'd hear about them even if there were, since the standpoint of society is drugs are bad mkay.

Arghus · 02-08-2017 12:08AM

Because, sometimes, they can be fun.

IamtheWalrus · 02-08-2017 12:08AM

Based on nothing but a hunch, I believe anyone taking drugs regularly over the age of 30 is to handle poor mental health.

Same as anyone who is regularly drunk.

Shpudnik · 02-08-2017 12:10AM

I've never taken drugs but from what I told they seek to be an escape from problems.

batistuta9 · 02-08-2017 12:10AM

you have a good time on them. it's as simple as that

Atlantic Dawn · 02-08-2017 12:11AM

There's likely 2 types...
Type 1 - Someone looking for something with a little more kick than alcohol and will give anything a go once but eventually they get hooked and are dependant on it.
Type 2 - Hooked on anything to give a buzz, will try anything and if it's cheap will try it often.

02-08-2017 12:11AM

Because drugs (well, party drugs) can give you a pretty surreal experience of euphoria that is difficult to experience through legal means, or sex, or much less, through the likes of mindfulness.

It's hedonism, pure and simple. Delicious, enrapturing, joyous, dizzying hedonism

Agent Coulson · 02-08-2017 12:12AM

I blame Fine Gael.

begbysback · 02-08-2017 12:12AM

Because they're prescribed and the doctor told me to

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-08-2017 12:14AM

NIMAN wrote: »

After watching a news report tonight about some new drug that's apparently started killing Britons, after it took Prince and loads of other Americans, the question popped into my head, "why take drugs at all".

We have all seen more documentaries than we can remember showing how much damage they do, and I'm still waiting to hear the story of that person whose life got better through the use of hard drugs, so why bother starting? Are people that stupid that they think it's going to end well?

Well, whcih drugs, for a start?

Are you talking pharameutical drugs? To recover from illness.
Everyday drinking drugs like caffiene and alcohol? To create a specific mental state such as allertness or relaxation.
Psychedleics such as LSD or mushrooms? To obtain a more enlightened view of the world and your place within it. Also, awesome ****ing visuals.
Emphaty drugs such as MDMA or ecstacy? To find it easier to relate to people and as antidepressants; specifically in social settings. They're very good at tearing down barriers such as shyness or lack of confidence.

Answer your question...?

IamtheWalrus · 02-08-2017 12:19AM

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Well, whcih drugs, for a start?

Are you talking pharameutical drugs? To recover from illness.
Everyday drinking drugs like caffiene and alcohol? To create a specific mental state such as allertness or relaxation.
Psychedleics such as LSD or mushrooms? To obtain a more enlightened view of the world and your place within it. Also, awesome ****ing visuals.
Emphaty drugs such as MDMA or ecstacy? To find it easier to relate to people and as antidepressants; specifically in social settings. They're very good at tearing down barriers such as shyness or lack of confidence.

Answer your question...?

Bit of a pompous reply, no?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 02-08-2017 12:24AM

IamtheWalrus wrote: »

Bit of a pompous reply, no?

Maybe. But the question came across as being pompous, too. But it was asked and it was answered. I could go into a lot more detail, but to just ask about "drugs" is far too vague and a bit niave.

GerryDerpy · 02-08-2017 12:25AM

I have never thought about a single worry while on drugs.

DontThankMe · 02-08-2017 12:25AM

Drugs are great.

Why do not take drugs OP?

Jim Bob Scratcher · 02-08-2017 12:30AM

Because they have to pay for RTE or otherwise face prison.

YourSuperior · 02-08-2017 12:32AM

Often, for some people happiness is beyond reach. In daily life fulfilment is not found so escaping it is the next best thing. For all this talk of progress, societies cannot admit the normal unhappiness of life. So there must be a war on those seeking an artificial happiness in drugs. And it won't ever end - this pleasure seeking. It's a war the authoritarians keep losing.

KKkitty · 02-08-2017 12:33AM

When I was younger I did drugs. I wasn't in a good mental state at the time and drank too much and if I was offered them I took them. I used them because I wasn't happy and the drugs gave me a euphoria I hadn't experienced before so I used them more than I should.

The Backwards Man · 02-08-2017 12:35AM

Townies trying to replicate the primeval euphoria of getting the turf home or the spuds gathered.

There's a reason you never see bogmen chewing yokes

Robsweezie · 02-08-2017 12:35AM

never taken them...i can only guess.

escapism. job pissing you off. bills piling up. family/marriage problems giving you hassle. broke up with your partner. coke, heroin, lsd etc are a temporary release, like drink. nothing really matters when you're pissed, does it? the point is too get completely out of your mind because there's so much going on inside it. too feel nothing, or feel everything.

id agree that it used to drown out mental health problems. i think for a depressive, drink and drugs would be a crutch, and even when its not necessarily depression, sometimes its all about filling a void in their life. if they cant get it from exercise, food or something else, it'll be drugs. we all have our vices, no?

2forjoy · 02-08-2017 12:38AM

Like 25 years ago I started smoking cos most of my friends in school were smoking . It was cool at the time
Drugs nowadays are similar . Its a social thingy .

02-08-2017 12:40AM

YourSuperior wrote: »

Often, for some people happiness is beyond reach. In daily life fulfilment is not found so escaping it is the next best thing. For all this talk of progress, societies cannot admit the normal unhappiness of life. So there must be a war on those seeking an artificial happiness in drugs. And it won't ever end - this pleasure seeking. It's a war the authoritarian's keep losing.

I think that's a good point, the only thing I'd be wary of is correlating drug-taking with escapism.

I don't want to escape from my life. I'm a happy, well adjusted 30-year-old who loves his mum and smiles at babies on the bus. It has nothing to do with unhappiness, it's just that psychedelic and euphoric drugs are a ladder to a new experience of the world that is otherwise unattainable.

For sure, plenty of people who use recreational drugs are suffering in some way. This probably applies to opiates in particular.

But many people just really bloody enjoy them, without needing to fill gaps in our lives.

Django99 · 02-08-2017 12:42AM

Mainly because they realease chemicals like dopamine and seretonin into the brain which are the chemicals that make a person feel happy and feel pleasure/euphoria.

The majority of recreational drug users do so with little enough impact on their lives, for short periods or very occasionally. Even harder drugs like heroin, cocaine etc a lot of people actually use these and still have perfectly normal lives, you just don't see it because, well, they lead perfectly normal lives.

Most of the negative issues regarding drugs arise from their prohibition, and even the problems which aren't caused by prohibition are made much worse because of it.

donegaLroad · 02-08-2017 12:49AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg

YourSuperior · 02-08-2017 12:53AM

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

I think that's a good point, the only thing I'd be wary of is correlating drug-taking with escapism.

I don't want to escape from my life. I'm a happy, well adjusted 30-year-old who loves his mum and smiles at babies on the bus. It has nothing to do with unhappiness, it's just that psychedelic and euphoric drugs are a ladder to a new experience of the world that is otherwise unattainable.

For sure, plenty of people who use recreational drugs are suffering in some way. This probably applies to opiates in particular.

But many people just really bloody enjoy them, without needing to fill gaps in our lives.

I just wonder sometimes about the psychotic, frantic clampdown on drugs like cannabis. It's a farce. Sure, folks can use them for many reasons, I'm just reminded about places like the Philippines, or just poverty generally and the harder stuff.

Will I Am Not · 02-08-2017 12:54AM

Why do people drink, go bungee jumping, parachute, meditate, get on a rollercoaster?

We all like to feel different to what we feel every minute of every day if we don't do anything else.

Junkyard Tom · 02-08-2017 01:00AM

The problem with heroin is that it's very moreish.
Harry Hill.

Why do people take drugs?

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