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Originally Posted by Derek S
You can tell people what you like and they will still take drugs. Heroin doesn't really have that many good luck stories attached to it yet there were about 1000 new users each month last year in Scotland.
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The trouble is that users (of any drugs) don't generally think of the problems they may have coming down (some drugs can have extremely bad comedowns). They think of the few minutes of pleasure they get when they are high. And yes, I mean a few minutes. Never done it myself, but I've been told the high from Heroin lasts about 15-20 minutes.
And where they do, the problems they face while off the drugs (which don't go away while they are on the drugs, but they are ignored) are often extremely bad. As such, a lot of people in bad situations percieve drugs as a way to escape from their problems (even if for a few minutes).
It's the same with Alcoholics.
Apart from that, going back to you saying you can tell people what you want, I remember going out with an old friend who was addicted to weed at the time. We'd arranged to go out with another mate to see a film. We arranged to meet at the other mate's house and he was gonna drive us. We ended up driving around the back streets in some god awful area of Croydon looking for dealers for over three hours. While we were driving around, I asked my mate why he didn't stop the drugs. His response was that the reason he didn't is because he didn't believe any drugs were harmful, and any attempt by the government to tell him otherwise was merely part of a conspiracy to stop him having fun. He couldn't grasp the fact that the Government actually has no interest in whether he has fun or not.