Re:Estimating Community Drug Abuse by Wastewater Analysis
by baldfat on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @02:34PM
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Socially and relationships are in serious trouble. If you measure success as in performing in business and don't count the family and children then okay. Drugs harm relationships. Its proven.
People on drugs are emotionally numb and a emotionally numb people make horrible friends and parents. http://cascw.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SubstanceAbu...
Best I have seen or heard on the effects of drugs on relationships. This is from "Liberal" This American Life.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/524/i...
Re:Estimating Community Drug Abuse by Wastewater Analysis
by Johnny555 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @03:43PM
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The article you linked to is talking about "Substance abuse", but there's a big difference between drug use and drug abuse.
I know many drug users (some legal, some not), but only know of one person who has had a substance abuse problem, and his problem was with alcohol.
I've known a number of senior executives in well known tech companies who are regular users (weekend partiers) of a number of drugs ranging from marijuana to cocaine, heroin and LSD. They are fortunate enough to have enough income to buy quality product, not cut with harmful chemicals.
Given that they lead very successful lives, I think the drug use is not harmful to them currently. Perhaps as they age out of their 40's and 50's the drug use will become more of a burden on their bodies, but there are certainly lots of lifestyle choices that are harmful to one's health that don't include any drugs at all.