you may be conflating cause and effect. disappointing lives full of depression, anxiety, and boredom leads to both apathy and drug-use (self medication). it's a

you may be conflating cause and effect. disappointing lives full of depression, anxiety, and boredom leads to both apathy and drug-use (self medication). it's a mistake to believe the drug use is the underlying cause of a person seeming unhappy and apathetic.