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Eacape from reality. Weak mindedness.
Debate Score:25
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What, in your opinion are the 3 top reasons why people take drugs.

My guess is that those who are too cowardly to face the realities of real life, which can be hash at times, without a crutch have to turn to drugs.
It seems to me that as they puff, swallow or inject whatever mind-altering/reality numbing substance they're hooked on they appear to retreat into their cosy, little safe world of cloud-cuckoo-land in which everything is sweet and wholesome and where they are only passive spectators enjoying a free ride as people with backbone keep the wheels of industry, along with all other vital elements of everyday life, turning.

Eacape from reality.

Side Score: 15
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Weak mindedness.

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There may have been a justifiable argument around the 50s-60s and maybe even the early 70s when the horrors of drugs were not thoroughly understood that junkies were no more than the sad victims of widespread ignorance.

However, from the late 70s and 80s onward everyone, except those who were living on the moon, were fully aware of the life-ruining consequences of drug taking, but still they, and they alone, made the decision to jump on the nearest trusty steed and ride like blue blazes down the to hell.

Why should medical resources be wasted on treating these useless, sub-humans while others, such as sick children who had no input into their malady are consigned to an early grave?

Side: Eacape from reality.
excon(18261) Disputed
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they, and they alone, made the decision to jump on the nearest trusty steed and ride like blue blazes down the to hell.

Hello P:

Nahhh.. They had help - LOTS of help..

So, you haven't heard of Purdue Pharmaceutical.. Seems if you're gonna talk about the opioid crisis, you'd know what part these drug dealers played.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/purdue-pharma-seeks-appeal-us-ruling-that-overturned-its-opioid-settlement-2021-12-31/

excon

Side: Weak mindedness.
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What, in your opinion are the 3 top reasons why people take drugs.

1: they can feel good

2: they can make you smarter/healthier

3: they can cure diseases

Side: Eacape from reality.
Pench(841) Disputed
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You're living proof just how harmful drugs and brain damaging venereal diseases can be.

EVERYONE READING THIS SHOULD TAKE HEED HOW DRUGS AND THE INFECTIONS HE INHERTITED FROM HIS WHORE MOTHER HAS TOTALLY RUINED THE LIFE OF POOR OLD NOMSHIT.

Just because you find taking drugs makes you feel better doesn't mean that they make you any less of an idiot.

EVERYONE, EXCEPT YOU KNOWS THAT.

Do try to understand old bean.

Side: Weak mindedness.
tickleballs(16) Disputed
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Just because you find taking drugs makes you feel better doesn't mean that they make you any less of an idiot.

My IQ increases every time I do drugs, thems just the facts and you gotta deal with it.

Side: Eacape from reality.
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What, in your opinion are the 3 top reasons why people take drugs.

Hello P:

You certainly ARE including drinkers of alcohol in your grab bag of junkies, no? If not, why not? Could it be because that's your drug of choice??

Just askin..

excon

Side: Eacape from reality.
Pench(841) Disputed
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Well, yes booze is a mind altering substance which will temporarily help to subdue the pains caused by life's inevitable trials and tribulations.

The danger is that if we willfully cloud our troubles with alcohol or drugs, even just for the nonce, they'll be there waiting for us when we emerge from our self-induced stupor, only this time they'll be in wonderful CinemaScope, super stereophonic sound and glorious technicolor.

I know too many people who have what I call an alcohol or drug personality.

Without THEIR FIX they're quiet, retiring and boring.

After they have THEIR FIX they liven up and become animated and quite jolly. Until that is, the effects of their poison wears off and they slump back into oblivion.

Side: Weak mindedness.
1 point

Kill psychological pain

Recreation

Addiction

Side: Eacape from reality.

I think people use drugs because they have mental illness most of the time. Illegal drugs can give you a temporary holiday from anxiety, depression etc. some people do it out of Peer Pressure and inadvertently get dependent (people without mental problems can experiment even with heroin and NOT get dependent).

I can tell the truth about this because I have severe depression and I take LEGAL Drugs (they can help). But I never have been addicted to illegal drugs.

Side: Eacape from reality.
Pench(841) Clarified
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Good God, I'm flabbergasted.

Excuse me while I sit down and have a glass of water.

Please don't think I'm patronizing you but when a profanity-free, rational and well expressed reply appears on this site it is to be celebrated and not passed over without recognition.

Let me thank you for your response and for entrusting me with the details of, what I hope is, your temporary condition.

I'm sure you're way ahead of me here but permit to suggest that physical exercise is a great depression/stress buster.

Side: Eacape from reality.

I will always have to take medicine. But I’m doing good thanks. I very much believe that addicts have mental problems

Side: Eacape from reality.
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I am firmly of the belief that most drug taking junkies have an inherent character weakness which leads them to eagerly and quickly accept their dependence on drugs at the expense of all else, including the relinquishment of their responsibilities to their families and the advancement of the wider communities in which they live.

Just like alcoholics they remain in denial for most of their lives arguing that their addiction is harmless

THERE IS NO HARMLESS LEVEL OF DRUG TAKING.

SUCH LOWLIFES SHOULD BE TREATED AS PARASITIC LEPERS AND KEPT AWAY FROM CIVILIZED SOCIETY.

Side: Weak mindedness.
tickleballs(16) Disputed
1 point

THERE IS NO HARMLESS LEVEL OF DRUG TAKING.

If we break down the implications of this statement to the molecular level it is super duper extra retarded because it implies that we should stop eating, breathing, drinking water, or producing vital neurochemicals such as DMT which are technically both used as"drugs" but also naturally occurring in the brain. Indeed, every chemical process vital to the function of the human brain includes some form of "mind altering chemical" rendering your argument extra super ultraalpha and omega beta sigma delta retarded

Side: Eacape from reality.
Pench(841) Disputed
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You stick to your drug taking and tickling your imaginary balls as that's clearly all you're good for.

Even prescribed or naturally occurring drugs such as endorphin's will of course have side-effects, some beneficial, some unhealthy.

Alternatively you could get high on your supply of illegal substances, which is what we're talking about here, and go yodelling up the canyon or some other such pastime more commensurate with your arrested intellect.

The graveyards and drug rehabilitation centers are full of dim-witted fools such as you who have tried to convince themselves and others that drug abuse is safe.

Why don't you provide the relevant law enforcement agencies with the details of your drug supplier?, I'm sure they'll be interested.

Better still I'll give your details to the National Crime Agency and leave the rest to them.

Side: Weak mindedness.