Some musings on drug use
-Pros and cons of drug use.
Pros:
Gives an easy escape.
Brings revenue to people.
It's an easy way of having fun.
Gives an easy control mechanism.
They can bring out the best in people.
-Longer life
-More comfortable life
Cons:
Gives an easy escape. (But many are addictive).
Brings revenue to people. (Because many are addictive).
It's an easy way of having fun. (An illusion because many are addictive?).
Gives an easy control mechanism. (Because many are addictive).
They can bring out the worst in people.
-Stealing
-Brutality
-Stupidity (such as it's stupid to jump off a bridge)
-Lack of self control
-Etc.
-Differences between habitual, recreational, and other forms of drug use.
Habitual
If it's a habit, it's integrated into every seam of your life.
You cannot function correctly without it.
You may feel terrible without it.
You cannot be "yourself" without it.
In cases where it becomes entirely pervasive, it may cost a great deal of money
to fuel this.
It has an adverse affect on your life, whether it be the time it takes away
from day to day life, the money it takes away, or the personality change it
causes.
As it's a [b]Must[/b] have, you may go to great lengths to acquire it.
Recreational
Done for fun.
Kicks and giggles.
Experimenting with new experiences.
The problem occurs of course, when you find you can't have fun without it.
Social
Only do it in company. Perhaps it relaxes you, makes you feel more normal,
comfortable, easier to talk to people.
It's certainly an addiction if you find you cannot socialise without it. A
great deal more people are addicted to alcohol than realise it).
Another example is smoking, there is a social aspect to it which helps fortify
the addiction.
Medicinal
Is used to correct a problem. Be it to dull pain, regulate your heart beat, or
make you happy, it's something used to make the body feel normal.
Stop.
Ok. Here's a big (and often ignored) point.
If medicinal use is OK, to make the body better, then why shouldn't other uses
where the person cannot function correctly without?
Because the body functioned correctly before, and now it doesn't, so we're just
restoring the body to that base-line.
However, it's easy to point out this:
Well, if that's OK, then why isn't it OK for me to smoke weed to relax myself
back to that baseline?
Or:
If I'm feeling down, why can't I take an upper to bring me back to that
baseline?
My answer is simple. If there's a problem with the body, in general, if it's
not sorted, there will often be an adverse, and often irreversible consequence
ie. death.
If you leave it alone, chances are, it won't get better. Or it won't get better
as fast.
Whereas:
Your mood will get better.
Your confidence [i]can[/i] grow to make social settings easier.
Life [i]does[/i] have ups and downs. Deal with it. Otherwise next time will be
harder.
Learning to relax is a skill in itself. It's much cheaper to learn it than buy
it. And it lasts for life.
In a world full of so much natural beauty, you don't need to go out of your
mind to see some.
And lastly, if you have to do something to be accepted socially, the society
sucks and it makes you merely another drone.
Point is, cheating makes things harder. The more you cheat, the more you have
to cheat. If you don't learn to walk by yourself, you'll always fall.
These are life skills, by taking drugs to cheat your way to an end, then you
learn to use drugs. You don't learn how to be happy. You don't learn how to
socialise. You don't learn how to relax.
If you've ever played a computer game, and used cheats at the beginning, you'll
rapidly bore of the game. If you use cheats at every difficult point, you'll
never have any sense of achievement, as well as becoming bad at the game.
Life is the same and drugs are the cheat.
-Addiction: Psychological or physiological?
Both.
If a person cannot function physically without, then it's probably a physical
addiction, if they feel they cannot function without, then it's probably
Psychological.
The easiest test is the placebo test.
If you replace the drug with a placebo, and the person has withdrawal affects,
then they are probably physically addicted, as without the mind knowing the
drug's changed, the end result is unlikely to be psychosematically induced.
In general terms, the distinction between addiction and non-addiction is the
distinction between needs.
In levels of addiction, just ask yourself, which word describes your need?
Must, should, could, would, don't.
As in:
Must have it.
Should have it.
Could have it.
Would have it.
Don't have it.
Obviously, this describes addiction from greatest to least.
For instance, "I must have a smoke", "I should have a drink", "I could have
some weed", "I would eat a pie", "I don't give a damn".
But anything above could is certainly a problem, as that indicates a
dependency.
Also, it is a point that if you apply this to certain situations, then it
brings out circumstantial addictions such as socially. Apply the same list in a social situation, or a recreation situation etc.
It helps analyse and see where the addictions are.
Pros:
Gives an easy escape.
Brings revenue to people.
It's an easy way of having fun.
Gives an easy control mechanism.
They can bring out the best in people.
-Longer life
-More comfortable life
Cons:
Gives an easy escape. (But many are addictive).
Brings revenue to people. (Because many are addictive).
It's an easy way of having fun. (An illusion because many are addictive?).
Gives an easy control mechanism. (Because many are addictive).
They can bring out the worst in people.
-Stealing
-Brutality
-Stupidity (such as it's stupid to jump off a bridge)
-Lack of self control
-Etc.
-Differences between habitual, recreational, and other forms of drug use.
Habitual
If it's a habit, it's integrated into every seam of your life.
You cannot function correctly without it.
You may feel terrible without it.
You cannot be "yourself" without it.
In cases where it becomes entirely pervasive, it may cost a great deal of money
to fuel this.
It has an adverse affect on your life, whether it be the time it takes away
from day to day life, the money it takes away, or the personality change it
causes.
As it's a [b]Must[/b] have, you may go to great lengths to acquire it.
Recreational
Done for fun.
Kicks and giggles.
Experimenting with new experiences.
The problem occurs of course, when you find you can't have fun without it.
Social
Only do it in company. Perhaps it relaxes you, makes you feel more normal,
comfortable, easier to talk to people.
It's certainly an addiction if you find you cannot socialise without it. A
great deal more people are addicted to alcohol than realise it).
Another example is smoking, there is a social aspect to it which helps fortify
the addiction.
Medicinal
Is used to correct a problem. Be it to dull pain, regulate your heart beat, or
make you happy, it's something used to make the body feel normal.
Stop.
Ok. Here's a big (and often ignored) point.
If medicinal use is OK, to make the body better, then why shouldn't other uses
where the person cannot function correctly without?
Because the body functioned correctly before, and now it doesn't, so we're just
restoring the body to that base-line.
However, it's easy to point out this:
Well, if that's OK, then why isn't it OK for me to smoke weed to relax myself
back to that baseline?
Or:
If I'm feeling down, why can't I take an upper to bring me back to that
baseline?
My answer is simple. If there's a problem with the body, in general, if it's
not sorted, there will often be an adverse, and often irreversible consequence
ie. death.
If you leave it alone, chances are, it won't get better. Or it won't get better
as fast.
Whereas:
Your mood will get better.
Your confidence [i]can[/i] grow to make social settings easier.
Life [i]does[/i] have ups and downs. Deal with it. Otherwise next time will be
harder.
Learning to relax is a skill in itself. It's much cheaper to learn it than buy
it. And it lasts for life.
In a world full of so much natural beauty, you don't need to go out of your
mind to see some.
And lastly, if you have to do something to be accepted socially, the society
sucks and it makes you merely another drone.
Point is, cheating makes things harder. The more you cheat, the more you have
to cheat. If you don't learn to walk by yourself, you'll always fall.
These are life skills, by taking drugs to cheat your way to an end, then you
learn to use drugs. You don't learn how to be happy. You don't learn how to
socialise. You don't learn how to relax.
If you've ever played a computer game, and used cheats at the beginning, you'll
rapidly bore of the game. If you use cheats at every difficult point, you'll
never have any sense of achievement, as well as becoming bad at the game.
Life is the same and drugs are the cheat.
-Addiction: Psychological or physiological?
Both.
If a person cannot function physically without, then it's probably a physical
addiction, if they feel they cannot function without, then it's probably
Psychological.
The easiest test is the placebo test.
If you replace the drug with a placebo, and the person has withdrawal affects,
then they are probably physically addicted, as without the mind knowing the
drug's changed, the end result is unlikely to be psychosematically induced.
In general terms, the distinction between addiction and non-addiction is the
distinction between needs.
In levels of addiction, just ask yourself, which word describes your need?
Must, should, could, would, don't.
As in:
Must have it.
Should have it.
Could have it.
Would have it.
Don't have it.
Obviously, this describes addiction from greatest to least.
For instance, "I must have a smoke", "I should have a drink", "I could have
some weed", "I would eat a pie", "I don't give a damn".
But anything above could is certainly a problem, as that indicates a
dependency.
Also, it is a point that if you apply this to certain situations, then it
brings out circumstantial addictions such as socially. Apply the same list in a social situation, or a recreation situation etc.
It helps analyse and see where the addictions are.