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People like drugs because they allow an escape from their normal lives, which they don't like. Boredom, depression, etc. Read about the rat park experiment, rat
by ythn 9y ago
People like drugs because they allow an escape from their normal lives, which they don't like. Boredom, depression, etc. Read about the rat park experiment, rats like being high too if their lives suck.
- DonaldFisk 9y agoThe principal author of the Rat Park paper, Bruce Alexander, has a web site on addiction: http://www.brucekalexander.com http://www.brucekalexander.com
- astronautjones 9y agoPeople like drugs for the same reason that consumer culture has become an uncontrollable beast - you can use the dollars you earned to bring you joy. Some people prefer it to alter their state of consciousness. Society should step in to stop people who are doing it recklessly, just as they should when people are hoarders, people are obese - it's all the same thing, somebody has only found one Skinner button that works for them in a world of Skinner buttons you're meant to press