Re:I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem
by mdoms on Thursday February 18, 2021 @04:51PM
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Really, dude?
> Hart reports that more than 70 percent of drug users—whether they use alcohol, cocaine, prescription medications, or heroin—do not meet the health criteria for drug addiction
> “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use,” Carl Hart writes
> Let’s just talk about alcohol first. When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant. People are more gregarious. They talk, they interact. The same is true with cocaine at parties, heroin among friends, or opium among friends, NDMA among lovers.
> It’s just like with alcohol. Most people drink alcohol on a regular basis, but they don’t become physically dependent
> I don’t know a term. I simply mean people who take drugs, like alcohol users, somebody who may have a glass of wine or two every night for dinner, whereas somebody else may only drink on the weekend. It’s a wide range. And the same can be true with cocaine or heroin
> Why do you use heroin?
> That’s like saying, “Why do you use alcohol?”
> Hart reports that more than 70 percent of drug users—whether they use alcohol, cocaine, prescription medications, or heroin—do not meet the health criteria for drug addiction
> “My heroin use is as rational as my alcohol use,” Carl Hart writes
> Let’s just talk about alcohol first. When you’re at a wedding reception, alcohol serves as a social lubricant. People are more gregarious. They talk, they interact. The same is true with cocaine at parties, heroin among friends, or opium among friends, NDMA among lovers.
> It’s just like with alcohol. Most people drink alcohol on a regular basis, but they don’t become physically dependent
> I don’t know a term. I simply mean people who take drugs, like alcohol users, somebody who may have a glass of wine or two every night for dinner, whereas somebody else may only drink on the weekend. It’s a wide range. And the same can be true with cocaine or heroin
> Why do you use heroin? > That’s like saying, “Why do you use alcohol?”