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Drug use is seen as a moral failing that must be punished, not as an illness that should be treated.
by minikites 7y ago
Drug use is seen as a moral failing that must be punished, not as an illness that should be treated.
- collyw 7y agoIllegal drug use. People use alcohol, caffeine, nicotine all the time but most people don't even view those as "drugs".
- nemonemo 7y agoThe boundary between drugs and non-drugs is murky. Even refined salt, sugar, and flour could be classified as "drugs" -- your brain gets affected by them, potentially permanently, and they are hardly natural -- and even less people consider them as drugs.
- balfirevic 7y agoRefined salt?
- nyolfen 7y agosalt, sugar, and flour aren't natural?
- skosch 7y agoThey aren't typically found in nature in the form in which we consume them. They require human processing (even if it's much less processing than what goes into making a frozen pizza).
- nyolfen 7y agoi'm curious specifically about what you think we do to salt that changes it so dramatically
- AdrianB1 7y agoSalt is. In my grandma's village we have both natural salt rocks and also salt springs people use for cooking, conserving white cheese or preparing pickles. And that village is not an exception in my country, it is the rule in all mountain areas.
- MisterTea 7y agoDrug use is self medication in order to seek relief from an illness. That illness is usually mental which some view as a personal failing and not a legitimate medical condition. That or they deem it unimportant enough to care about.
- fwip 7y agoMostly I agree, but it's not always an illness, sometimes it's just a really hard living situation. (E.g. you're dependent on an abusive partner).
- ganzuul 7y agoDepression follows easily from that. Long story short; depression has set in when a previous source of joy no longer brings the expected feeling of well-being. Having encountered this fault, the individual seeks to correct it. Depending on environmental factors, they might choose to self-medicate with e.g. alcohol.