Re:Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portrait...
by CrankyPants on Thursday September 13, 2012 @02:19AM
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I don't think the issue is so much that he used one of these drugs once, it's that he used each of them once, and initially on a schedule so compressed that it left nearly no time to purge and recover.
And while many of these drugs may be available with a prescription, I'd be surprised if any doctor worth his oath would prescribe this kind of sequence of drugs. (To say nothing of the fact that lasting side-effects with prescription drugs is more common than it ought to be.)
The body is quite effective at getting rid of foreign agents.
Most of them are some of the most commonly prescribed drugs by doctors (7+ of them were common anti-anxiety pills, 2 common anti-pyschosis meds, percocet (most prescribed painkiller), adderral, ambien etc). Marijuana, salvia and nicotine gum are mostly harmless. Morphine, nitrous oxide are harmless in small dosages.
Theres a benefit from experimentation with (certain) drugs for expanding the mind as long as its done in total moderation and safely.
The common downside is those brave enough to try them in the first place, are usually brave enough to keep doing them beyond healthy means.