Its funny you mention this. While working for some years in the south bay tech hub (san jose), I knew a guy who was a VP at a tech company. Everyday he would

Its funny you mention this. While working for some years in the south bay tech hub (san jose), I knew a guy who was a VP at a tech company. Everyday he would lock his office door at lunch and do a shot of heroin. He'd lay back at his desk and zone out for an hour or so, then wash his face and go back to work. When I left the bay area and lost track of him, he was still in the same cycle and not spiraling into destruciton. A big difference in outcomes is dictated by WHY a person is using drugs. Someone with mental health problems (and/or major life problems in general) is going to do far worse than someone who just wants a little temporary escape. After growning up in the US souteast, I can athoritatively say that a big part of the US situation is due to the uneducated, uninformed, hateful, religous population that mmakes up a significant part of the total...