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Dosage is a major factor. Smoking meth is way different from eating Desoxyn. Even lots of Desoxyn. Edit: Dosage and route both matter a lot.
by mirimir 6y ago
Dosage is a major factor. Smoking meth is way different from eating Desoxyn. Even lots of Desoxyn.
Edit: Dosage and route both matter a lot.
- Reelin 6y agoAgreed regarding route - I didn't mean to imply that all patterns of use were equivalent. I was trying to illustrate that it isn't some bogeyman that will swallow you whole. The drug alone simply cannot explain the issues that are often attributed to it. My point here is that many drugs have been demonized to a wholly unscientific degree and I often witness otherwise well educated and thoughtful people zealously perpetuating such myths without stopping to really think them through. IMO blaming bad behavior and even addiction on drugs is an easy out which avoids addressing the much more complicated underlying issues. Overdoses, abuse, addiction, and crime seem to me to be largely to blame on other systemic societal problems. As always, correlation does not imply causality.
- mirimir 6y agoYes, I entirely agree about drugs being demonized. And I believe that people get to choose what drugs to use, and how to use them. But that also means that they're responsible for consequences. Indeed, some drugs are so demonized that many who use them do get swallowed whole. Because it's what they expect, and part of the motivation.