How come drug addicts are a thing? What makes people do drugs?

How come drug addicts are a thing? What makes people do drugs?

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Who wouldn't want out this shithole?

I became a drug addict after my father's gruesome workplace death when I was young. .

Never judge a book by its cover.

Ok I can understand that. But habitual use of drugs requires lots of $$$. Therefore a druggie is usually pretty fucking rich. What forces rich fucks to do drugs?

Brain chemistry.

I am not wealthy. I work a menial job and am dirt poor. I haven't had "real" meat in 7 years. I live off of dollar store beans, Mac n cheese, and spam. I live in a shitty bachelor suite in the inner city. Old computer, no TV. I ride the bus.

Alcohol and narcotics, ironically, keep me going

doing drugs and being addicted to drugs is way different

For most addicts, it is severe psychological or physical pain that keeps them going back. You don't abuse drugs if you are a happy person with good mental health. You do it if you are desperate because prolonged, intense emotional or physical pain. Most drug addicts are tragic figures, whether or not they become human scum, as is the case with many addicts.

Modern society makes people bored, depressed, spoiled and narcissistic. With no existential threats to overcome many people want to use drugs to create one, or in other words create a difficult obstacle for themselves to very loudly overcome. Then everybody will know their true strength and character when they are able to quit. Then they can't quit and they die or crave the drug for the rest of their lives.

Depression, curiosity, fitting in and peer pressure.

Top 3.

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Same reason porn, video games and most media exist. Escapism.

Well, until the last year, reality was WAY more boring than drugs. Like why even live boring.

But this Kek timeline changed everything.

Life fucking sucks. Reality is trash.

Self-medication

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>why go out drinking, doing a bunch of blow, and getting excited about shit?

edgy
life is beautiful and you had your opportunities but failed because you're weak-willed

My entire apartment.

This.

Preach. Spirituality made me realize drgus are degenerate as fuck

For me, it was anger, depression, and frustration with life and society that all kind of crashed together when I was a teenager, plus a genetic predisposition. The first time I got drunk, I had this profound feeling of, "Is this what it's like to feel normal and okay? I'm going to do this every single chance I get." Literally nothing made me feel as good as drinking did in my entire life. Unfortunately, it quits having that effect with time, but your brain has already associated it with those euphoric feelings and it basically turns into a really fucked up learning disorder. Quit drinking 20 months ago, total non-degenerate now except for cigarettes and Vyvanse. Life is better, but still nothing compares to how it was in the beginning.

jesus those look like some big fat lines

I don't do drugs. I'm a successful person with strong drive and lots of material goods, if you like to equate value to things of that sort. I get shit done and enjoy my life to the fullest extent.

But the harsh reality is existence fucking sucks. You're born. You work. You die.

humans crave altered states of consciousness. do you like roller coasters, dancing at clubs, love, food, looking at the stars at night, scary movies, sad movies? then you are human and understand drug use. yes, it can lead to addiction. its horrible and deadly and i work with addicts so i know. but to be an addict is to be human. part of our human journey is learning to moderate our cravings. drugs are just a test of that moderating system. stay happy, use mushrooms, see god, and go out into the world and be who you are.

My wife has those pants...

>degenerate
>communist
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Go back to Sup Forums with this faggot ass shit.

yay nicolae ceaucescu!!!!! what a hero!!!!!

>Sup Forums

>flag
>also flag
If this is bait, congrats here's a (you) commie scum

Looks like a trailer to me

>What makes people do drugs?

Anxiety, depression, insomnia, boredom, loneliness, despondency, apathy, environmental influences, genetics, bad luck, the search for truth, heartbreak, a lust for destructiveness, habitual personalities, obsessiveness, insecurity, lack of reaction to art, pathology, suicidal tendencies, misplaced idolatry, possession, questioning, rebelliousness, sadness, love, a hatred of the truth.

Literally anything. That is why they're so tough to kick.

Generic plaid pjs dickhead.

You know why I'm a communist?

My father was killed because he, as a lathe operator, was overworked by his capitalist pig bosses.

The resulting exhaustion led to him dozing off at work and falling face first into the lathe. My father was killed because he, as a lathe operator, was overworked by his capitalist pig bosses.

The resulting exhaustion led to him dozing off at work and falling face first into the lathe.

Think about the fact that capitalism killed my dad when I was only 6 months old next time you buy an iPhone, or when you open those expensive gifts Christmas morning.

Because the world's fucking awful you retard.

Your dad literally fell asleep when he was supposed to be awake, and that is somehow the cornerstone of your entire ideological outlook.

If I was just a little bit smarter I might have the words to describe this special brand of stupidity.

See if you stay awake after 25 straight hours of work to feed your family and pay bills.

We use it to temporarily out of our shitty existences and feel good for a little bit. Why would I want to keep on feeling as I currently do when I could just smoke a bit of weed and have all of that stress, anxiety, or just depression go away? It starts that way anyways. After the luster of weed starts to wear off you move on to something stronger that will make you feel even better. Eventually though as time goes on and the receptors in your brain start to get fried from the constant extreme stimuli you stop being able to feel good without the drug. You rely on it to get you through everything and when you go without it even for a short period of time you feel like shit. You start to grow dependent on it to even function. It doesn't help that once you come down from one your body crashes and feels like absolute shit. You think hey, I felt so much better when I was high. If I just do a little more I might feel good again. Your habit starts to grow and grow until eventually it just consumes you. You spend your every waking moment either high or thinking about getting high. You start to isolate yourself from your friends, family, and everyone else who cares about you because you don't want them to worry about your ever worsening addiction. Eventually you find yourself alone and on the street with nothing and no one. It's once you've reached this point of rock fucking bottom you either A get help and try to get rid of your nasty habit or give in and either OD or end up dead in a ditch because you fucked the wrong people over one too many times.

T. Degenerate

I smoke weed and drink. I do it cause I'm bored mostly. Depressed also, but not as much. It's just fun to get lit

I have done all three of these things.

At some point you are going to have to accept the fact that your dad died because he was weak. Not because the world somehow conspired against him.

And frankly, basing your ideological loyalties on such an event is positively idiotic in either case.

lack of love makes you do drugs
I know this sounds stupid but it the truth.

Thats a pretty good list you got there. Its spot on.

Just stay away from opiates and youre good.

>When an everyday weed smoker claims that they aren't an addict

Low willpower. Low intelligence. Inability to defer quick gratification, eventually turning into using daily to prevent withdrawl due to increasing tolerance.

>dad killed by lathe
>son wants revolution
some things never change

>leaf

i knew it was fucking you commie leaf
i remember you even posted that fucked picture of your dads blown head
but you have to realise commie have even more factories and the chances of that shit happening to your dad under communism wouldve probably been higher

Taking drugs is just a nice escape from life or a way to enhance your life. Caffeine and aspirin enhance for example but are commonly accepted because of their everyday use and low risk (even though they both can kill you).

I have trouble with alcohol where I quit for a long time but then hit the bottle hard eventually and end up quitting again.

For me it's boredom and the lack of an escape that always draws me back. The last time I drank I sat at the computer and drank an 18 pack in one sitting. It's fucked but at least I'm not addicted to heroin I guess.

Trauma generally.

I like to go fast

>a druggie is usually pretty fucking rich
LMAO
someone please tell these people living in parks and under bridges to please loan me a few thousands, I could really use their help xD

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>The first time I got drunk, I had this profound feeling of, "Is this what it's like to feel normal and okay? I'm going to do this every single chance I get.

Iktf.

escapism

expect it to get a lot worse in the coming years. everyone under 30 in the west is either an alcoholic or smokes weed several times a day.

lol yeah whatever

Because they are fun

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Learn motherfucking neuroscience leaf

then it will be clear

As a former addict it makes you escape from reality, but when you come back you see yourself more older, slower, broke or just an addict so you want to escape reality again. Its a dangerous vicious circle that only family, friends and objectives can help you brake it. Physical addiction is easy to go, serotonin and dopamine level can get fixed with good eating, working and sleeping. Its the psychological and emotions dependency a bitch hard to let go.

The fuck are you talking about, kangaroo fluffer? I never touched that shit in my life.

Here the drug of choice for most people is Crystal Meth (Tina, Ice).

It's actually a real problem because the high is too good, too strong and lasts forever (8+ hours compared to cocaine's 45 mins). Plus it's cheap; you can buy 3 days worth of Crystal for the same price as a pack of fags.

That shit is literal poison though.

My grandpaw worked at a steel mill and he stayed awake for 3 days straight with almost constant work. user is right your father was sadly weak.

we need drugs/activities that aren't as unhealthy

The shitty part that most people don't get is that the diminishing returns are brutal and life-long. No drug addict or alcoholic gives it up if it's still working like it does in the beginning. You just get to the point where it no longer does the trick, but by the time that realization creeps in, you've burnt most of your bridges and wrecked your life trying to balance the increasingly negative effects with some semblance of a normal life and it's just not possible for most people. At that point a lot of people just keep going to try to numb themselves to the hellish reality they've created. It's a really fucked up mental disorder that will take people to really dark places.

On the other hand, the same personality type can make some pretty great people, particularly leaders, as it tends to make people obsessive and compulsive risk-takers.

Some people are destined to be slaves

Is dad posting the new meme?

I became a Sup Forums user after my father's gruesome workplace death when I was young

Why wouldnt i want tp do blow every morning iny office before my restaurant opens at 6AM? Id already been there for an hour and life is terrible. Blow should be legal if only for the sake of the restaurant industry

How come you have to be in your office at 5am?

Same reason anyone does anything they like. It feels good.

the irony they pretend coke is one step below heroin/opiods but it clears your system in 3 days entirely and lasts like ~30 minutes unless you get 75%+ good shit

cocaine IRL is caffeine tier and is only expensive because of prohibition. florida/greenhouses could grow coca plants like no ones business and/or you could buy drugs that use the same absorption pathway (IE "bathsalts") lab created if it wasn't for the nanny state.

dank

Boredom and escapism

Boredom and fulfillment mostly

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You will be fine lathe dad bro. Understand why you have tendencies to do drugs. Not giving any advice.

Post dead lathe dad if you have pics.

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this is retarded, you are retarded

I startet having my first beer at 18, never took a sip before.

It was the most beautiful feeling in the world, i felt finally normal and happy, euphoric and the anxiety was gone.

Since that i adapted the habit of my mother who drinks a bottle of wine a day.

Now i drink every evening.

It does't even let me feel good anymore that way how it did the first year.

But it relaxes me and stops my retarded thinking for a few hours.

But i think i would quit if i had a fun job and no anxiety.

But im 21 with no HS degree, i think i will die an alcoholic, alone in my dark room.