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People abuse that stuff when life sucks. So widespread opiate abuse is a symptom of a "sick society", right?

• mattbierner 9y ago
  > People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings, so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead — Breakfast of Champions