Abuse Vs. Dependance

[pankreeas]

This has been a topic on my mind lately. I think this is the root of all misunderstanding behind druge use; whether recreational, or out of necessesity.

I feel that if you are abusing drugs you are in control (for the most part, yes there are exceptions). Now abuse is in a sense taking and having your way with but not giving back. If you can maintain this with your pattern of drug use then you still have the upper hand. That being you are still tipping the scale in the more positive direction than negative when gauging your outcome from using. It's once you start to feel no more positives, or rather the drug has become your only positive do you fall into dependance. Once that happens the drug has the upper hand and you will revert to those same exact drug seeking patterns, but now you are handing it all over like you would to a bully demanding lunch money.

Maybe if enough education was put towards realizing the line existed and how to steer clear of crossing it. An example to sort of sum up my point... Yes it's true that you can get hooked off your first hit of heroine. That in no way means you are dependant on it yet. You are still abusing it. You are havin a blast, oh the euphoria, yes i'm king of the fu$&in world!. But no doctor in their right mind would tell you how often you should do it before getting physically hooked... In todays society well you're already a feind at that stage so why help you manage a lifestyle on it right? ..... . ... ..

People will do drugs. They make us feel good. All thats left is to teach is well by golly! the basics? harm prevention, tolerance management, etc... The first step is just admitting to ourselves that if you can't beat em.... you indeed must join them. Everywhere should be a "safe" injection site.


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Just some more jabber to maybe start something with this thread...

It's a no-brainer succumbing to the concept that drugs do in fact make the world go 'round. We're talkin everything from your baby aspirin to your, ativan, to your .5 speedballs slung on the corner. Supply will always be catching up with demand for nearly everything and we will forever be chasing the next new miracle cure... what'll it be next, glammutrex, or varlabinol, or some other name everyone thinks is so above them they would not understand it's mechanism of action. So everyone turns a blind eye and voila, another round of high 5's (among many other things...) in the offices of the rx companies as they keep us in fear.. which keeps our wallets wide open. What worries me is the fact that there's still a nearly infinite number of possibile combinations for drug names here... that it could go on until the end of time.

I know it's foolish of me to think the train will switch tracks from profiteering to maybe something a little more directed at keeping our population healthier in a to the point manner. But in a society where alcohol is the leading cause of impaired deaths, yet is one of the only legal drugs... you really have to wonder how long it'll be before the training wheels come off...

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	Great Topic for discussion
	Very intelligent analysis