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Years ago the devastating effects of drugs were little known and many people perceived their use as a bit of harmless recreational fun.
However, as the life threatening/changing effects drugs have has been public knowledge for many decades it can be taken as read that those who start taking drugs are mindlessly reckless and totally devoid of any common sense and should therefore be left to wallow in the quagmire of of their self imposed mental and physical agony without pity or state assistance.
These weak minded lotus eaters should be left to perish just as mother nature's natural selection process intended.
However, as the life threatening/changing effects drugs has been public knowledge for many decades it can be taken as read that those who start taking drugs are mindlessly reckless and totally devoid of any common sense and should therefore be left to wallow in the quagmire of of their self imposed mental and physical agony without pity or state assistance.
Not all drugs are life threatening or life changing. Plenty of illegal drugs have marginal risk of negative social, psychological and physical effects. For example, natural cannabis strains with low THC content and higher CBD content have been used as relaxation medicines for thousands of years in myriad cultures. Only since the development of high THC, purpose-bred strains has this plant become synonymous with psychosis.
Likewise, not all legal drugs are harmless. Tobacco and alcohol -- two drugs which we know are highly addictive and destructive -- are legal. Not everybody who has a drink and ends up with a drinking problem are "mindless and reckless". Many people only discover the depths of their addictive personality after they have naïvely partaken in a culture where binge-drinking is somewhat a rite of passage. Likewise, most smokers have parents for smokers: it is often learned behaviour.
I should also point out that a lot of people who get into drugs don't get into drugs because they are devoid of common sense or because they are mindless: it is often because of peer pressure in socioeconomically deprived areas of society, where drugs offer an easy escape from a myriad of problems that come hand-in-hand with impoverishment.
The criminalisation of drug possession and the various three strikes laws in the US also make it the case that a person who has a problem with illegal substances becomes a criminal instead of a person with a medical issue. We treat alcoholism as a medical problem; we treat a gambling addiction as a mental health issue: why not other drugs or forms of addiction?
These weak minded lotus eaters should be left to perish just as mother nature's natural selection process intended
Social darwinism is only one small step from eugenics, and it fails to account for the plethora of social factors that play into addiction. What you're essentially saying is "addictive personality is a genetic weakness and mother nature should weed these people out of the gene pool". Well actually, addiction generally has only a minor genetic component. There is a higher risk of addiction in some people because their neurochemical reward pathways are dulled; they require more stimulation to get the same satisfaction from reward as less addictive people. But that only explains risk. It doesn't factor in the various social experiences that have had a psychologically and neurologically negative impact serious enough to lead to said addiction.
A person can be at heightened risk of Crohn's disease but able to stymy its onset by making good diet choices, the same way a person can be at heightened risk of addiction but able to stymy its onset by making a choice to refrain from addictive substances. The issue is that by the time a potential addict finds out they are more likely to be addicted: it's already too late.
It should, therefore, be treated as a health issue if we really want to eliminate its destructive effects on society. We can't just leave people to descend into chaos and death because they happen to have neurological wiring that makes them more susceptible to addictive substances. It's like saying we should leave cancer patients to die because their genetics put them at significantly higher risk of cancer.
You FACTLESS DUMMY who BLAME'S your WIFE for living in a PERVERTED STATE. Does she also need to be blamed for YOU not knowing the COST of CRAZY BERNIE'S INSANE health insurance costs ???????????
Depends on the precise situation. If you're addicted, it could be because you were unaware that it was an addictive medication, but it could also be because you're stupid. So my answer is both.
If you are addicted and want to get better, go to a detox facility and stop supporting political positions that allow drugs to flow across the border.
Depends on the precise situation. If you're addicted, it could be because you were prescribed an addictive medication, but it could also be because you're stupid.
So, since they were never "prescribed addictive medications", we can thus infer that you believe Charles Dickens, Sigmund Freud, Vincent van Gogh, Ulysses S. Grant, Winston Churchill and Tchaikovsky were all stupid.
Well, if there really is a lexicon of 756 genders and infinite identities, his claim of us wanting to hump our mom's must be wrong, seeing my mother self identified as a cabbage, and I identify as a planetary system.
Ulysses S. Grant
No. I don't think a Christian, Conservative Republican trying to free slaves from Democrats is stupid.
Winston Churchill
You tell us Nom. By your standards he's be an Islamophobic Socialism hater like Donald Trump.
Tchaikovsky
Nah. A guy who intentionally left Communist Russia to live in the Capitalism driven West is not stupid.
Vincent van Gogh
Disturbed would be a better word, seeing he killed himself at a young age due to years of mental illness and poverty.
Charles Dickens
A lot of Christians are brilliant people, including him.
No. I don't think a Christian, Conservative Republican trying to free slaves from Democrats is stupid.
Then you are contradicting yourself, because Ulysses S. Grant was a known alcoholic.
I'll ignore the rest of your infantile ramblings because -- let's be honest -- I'm never going to find a point in there am I? Not even if I read them backwards, forwards, and then translate them into Cantonese.
As always, to excuse the truth of how irresponsible it is to become addicted to anything, Liberals try to equate those who get addicted on medicine, with the dead beats we are talking about.
Liberals REFUSE to hold people accountable for their mindlessly stupid choices in life, so they blame Doctors. ROFLOL
Who doesn't know some people get addicted to pain killers?
WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUPER STUPID you should address the problems your STATE has and ask this question that you typed - If you're an addict, is it because you're DUMB, or because you're ADDICTED?
What you got to say LITTLE BASEMENT BOY ?????????????
It depends on the reason you became an addict. Becoming addicted to pain medicine prescribed by a doctor trying to help versus just wanting to try cocaine, are two different scenario's.
You don't become addicted for trying it.. It's NOT like one hit, and you're hooked..
So you have to be dumb a few times over.
I'm including tobacco too.. That's one of the most serious of addictions..
Because it’s so unhealthy.
It's the hardest to break
Because it’s behind every counter. Let’s not pretend nicotine is on par with heroin.
and it WILL kill you
When you’re old. Because it’s a bad health choice.
No one is going to tail spin in a downward spiral of cigarette and dip use that they spent every last dime on and took out loans from sharks just to get their fix which they accidentally overdose on only to be found by their 8 year old.
Being "dumb" doesn't have anything to do with it. Some of the greatest, most creative minds in history have suffered from addiction. It's dumb to conflate addiction with being stupid.
Because it’s so unhealthy.
Lol. No Amarel, it is one of the most serious addictions because nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known to man.
Because it’s behind every counter. Let’s not pretend nicotine is on par with heroin.
Nicotine is MORE addictive than heroin.
When you’re old. Because it’s a bad health choice.
Smoking kills young people too.
Congratulations buddy. As per usual, everything you have written is retarded.
You are debating addiction you raging imbecile, not "seriousness". Why don't you explain to us which drugs you think are funny and which ones you think are serious.
Every current source puts nicotine somewhere between 3rd and 5th with heroine at #1. Except for that one very recent article in The NY Times from 1987. Have you considered offering heroine for smoking cessation based on your cutting edge 1987 scientific journal article? You’d seem like the smartest guy there!
Your cartoon site about how smoking kills the young lists middle age people as examples. That’s because smoking kills people about 10 years sooner than non-smokers. Not exactly spring chickens you dim fuck.
Your a true fucking moron. Not only because you literally believe that smoking is more addictive than heroine, which is comically stupid enough, but because of how you choose your opinions. You don’t take in facts to form positions, you take in opinions of people you hate (me) and then disagree with with them. You constantly find yourself arguing for the stupidest shit. You are composed of ignorant disagreement.
For everyone else’s sake, take up smoking. Then quite with heroin. It’ll be fine.
This site is a blog. Absolutely typical that you would accuse me of using "cartoon sites" (i.e. blogs) and then source another blog with a different opinion. Nicotine has been medically PROVEN to be at least as addictive as heroin. See:-
Research has shown that nicotine is just as addictive as heroin.
4. Heroin. Powerful analgesics, taken regularly, are difficult for many (but not most) people to quit.
3. Cigarettes. In ratings by cocaine and alcohol addicts, smoking is regularly cited as the more difficult drug to quit, generally on par with or more difficult than heroin.
You truly are an idiotic creature everything you say is constantly corrected by site members which sends you into a childish rage , take your corrrections like a man you may learn something.
Yesterday like the troll you are you supported the position that smoking causes thyroid cancer until I demonstrated that in fact it may decrease thyroid cancer and as usual that shut you up.
Withdrawal from smoking is nothing compared to withdrawal from smack or coke , withdrawal is very mild in comparison.
Here you go again Smoking is actually at number 5 in the U S and I do think this source would be regarded as pretty accurate
If Amarel is an idiot, your that shit between my nuts
You're.
Why is it that fascists never know how to spell words? Explain that to me. Do you consider yourselves to be above obtaining basic communication skills?
If tobacco addicts couldn't get their drug, they'd take to the streets..
I smoked myself long enough to know that statement is nonsense . Most people if told by a doctor they have first stage cancer stop stone cold , I know this for a fact because I have worked in two cancer hospitals , a drug addict or alcoholic couldn’t give a fuck what a doctor told them he /she had it’s all about the next fix
There are little or no side effects with giving up smoking it’s all psychological
Having a mild form of mental retardation has to do with all of your posts. Want to tell us about your disability Nom?
I'll tell you about Freudian projection if you like. Here:-
Freud considered that, in projection, thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings that cannot be accepted as one's own are dealt with by being placed in the outside world and attributed to someone else.
It's dumb to conflate addiction with being stupid.
Still fucking up the English language, eh buddy? Dumb means you can't speak. Pretty simple English Nom. I'm sorry you were born slow. Nothing I can do for you buddy.
