I was never heavy into drugs but I smoked weed a fair bit in my 20s, knew a lot of other daily users of weed as well as some harder drugs. I don’t think I ever came across a person that randomly decided to do drugs for no reason one day and got hooked. They were all people who had pretty messed up problems in their life that were too complex for them to fix on their own.

So it confuses me when people instantly assume that someone is in a bad situation due to drugs rather than them using drugs to deal with a bad situation. And yes I know drug abuse makes problems worse the vast majority of the time but it’s not what I see as the root issue in a lot of cases, the drug use is a symptom/coping mechanism for people that society have let fall through the cracks.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    20 小时前

    Well oxy definitely turned normal people with pain, into uncontrolled addicts. I’d say oxy drug is a problem.

    I do know a few people (very well) who had a super good life then friend group gets them into drug scene and life falls apart.

    But yeah mostly its abused kids, neglected kids, or people with mental health issues looking for the soothing that others just get naturally as a coping skill