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Originally Posted by Vin
If they choose to experiment with it in the first place, they should know that there will be a chance of addiction. Therefore they still choose to become addicts, unless the person in question is forced to take drugs at gun point, or prescribed medication for an ailment leads the person to be hooked. I would say the majority of addicts today are first exposed to "recreational" drugs.
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Peyote, marijuana, mushrooms, that's not what gets you to heroin and opioids. It just doesn't work like that.
I take it you have little or no experience with psychedelics?
Legal, pharmaceutical opioids have produced far more addicts than any naturally grown psychedelic plant.
How about this;
You are a teenager. Your step father is abusive. He beats you and often tries to assault you sexually. If not for him, you have no roof overhead. You try to reach out for help, but none is available. Not from government, not from your mother that works all day and into the evening. You eventually find an escape from your constant state of anxiety in a little elongated pill called Xanax, that a good 1/4 of your class mates and acquaintances have access to anyway, and use themselves. Its pharmaceutical, and accessible, how bad can it be?
This is just one way how addiction starts without someone being a "bad" person.
This isn't black and white.
But at the same time as above being true, its also an absolute joke and mockery that someone can be arrested 100+ times and released.
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