There are people who are prone to addiction. These are the people losing their entire livelihoods.
There’s a reason people don’t become addicts even though they’re given pharm grade heroin in hospitals (to pregnant women, no less). There’s a reason not everyone become addicts after they go to a music festival.
There’s a reason not everyone lose their jobs and sanity when they work in tech and wall street.
Are there people who succumb to addiction? Sure. But they are the extreme minority. The vast majority of people fare just fine.
That’s like saying psychedelics are bad for you because some people get bad trips or become psychotic. The vast majority of the people will claim their first trip was the most memorable/life changing experience they’ve ever experienced.
You also interact with users who aren’t addicts. Is there some survivorship bias in there?
I deal with families who are shattered because of drug use. So based on MY anecdotal evidence, everyone who uses drugs becomes an addict. Obviously not the case either.
Something like 25% of people who try heroin will become addicted, according to a stat I heard in a foster training session hosted by my state. Extreme minority?
Source? Given that opioids are given to pregnant women and in surgeries, sometimes in doses stronger than street heroin, I doubt this is true.
And no, I don’t just interact with users who aren’t addicts. I know a couple people who have lost their livelihoods due to meth.
I know plenty of people that are homeless.
The gay community is small and diverse. When you go to the clubs, it’s top 1% mixed with the bottom 1%. Successful people rarely fall victim to drugs. Wonder why? Responsibilities.
I’m not engaging a debate on this. You are undermining addicts, addiction, and medical research with your claims, which only serve to further stigmatize people who ARE addicted. Because what I’m hearing from you is that they just don’t have enough in their lives to want to overcome it. If they really didn’t want to be addicts, they wouldn’t be…
That’s some vague wording. What does dependence even mean? I know people who go out every weekend to the club and do molly every week, is that dependence? Are people who go to Burning Man every year dependent? These are successful people with great jobs.
Quite the opposite. Sounds like you just want to be enraged for no reason.
I’m saying, drugs are not as addictive as people think, as more people are on drugs than the average (sober) person assumes.
The way to help those who are addicts is not to make them feel ashamed of using drugs, and push the agenda of sobriety to the extreme, because to do so is hypocritical, as plenty of successful people are not sober, and people get scared when they hear phrases like “you can never use heroin or coke or meth ever again”.
