Self-prescription may lead to abuse more often than when an outside person makes the assessment about you, since one cannot easily differentiate between addiction and a strong affinity for a new source of happiness induced by the drug that isn’t the drug.
Are we including all drugs here, or merely illicit ones? How about Alcohol? Nicotine, caffeine?
Yes. Anything that has an effect outside of the digestive system should be suspect.
That's.. a lot of things. Even various foods have effects outside of the digestive system.
Yes. After quitting caffeine I realized I had to be more careful about eating dark chocolate, for example.
All the drugs, including alcohol, nicotine, caffeine. Why are you asking?
I'm asking because more often than not, commonly legal drugs are viewed differently, when some of them can be incredibly harmful.
I am a nicotine addict who wishes cigarettes would have been illegal back when I started. I see absolutely no benefit for smoking. Alcohol and caffeine in moderation have some, but your doctor's opinion should still be the deciding factor.
Did you seek a professional evaluation about how caffeine effects you? Or did you notice that it makes you slightly more alert, with minimal side effects? How do you choose which professional should evaluate your drug use?
Re:I do not use psychedelics
by Merilelife on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:30AM
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Any real example you could share?
In definitely a much more open person thanks to my experiences.
And I'm not doing drugs constantly.
I did MDMA 5* now and LSD 3times and I'm nearly 40 and still those experiences are important to me.
I could share tens, but the stories are too long for a reply here.
But I will address your point about being more open. I know several cases where it did make them more open but that was a bad thing since they where already too open. So it's like any other drug, including all the legal ones. An anticoagulant can save your life or kill you.
Re:I do not use psychedelics
by Merilelife on Monday July 24, 2023 @06:08AM
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Hard to discuss your point if you are not saying anything.
Most positive stories you hear about drugs are from people who self diagnosed, self proscribed and self evaluated the results of their use. For each one I personally get to know I could not disagree harder with their conclusions. You can not be objective about it and the drugs alter the decision mechanism itself. So you have to be looked at from the outside and by a professional.