Why Do So Many People Pump Themselves Full Of Poisons Like This?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/tranq-dope-a-new-drug-is-rotting-peoples-skin-and-causing-horror-on-us-streets-12810916
.....I'm going to start a count down with this one, .....10.......

[Peter Pedant]

yeah agree
count down to count off
can someone scrap this load of rubbish please?

some people have addictive personalities and will willingly take anything ( heroin methadone, grass, skunk and so on)

[Peter Pedant]

foo - free und a half ......

[andy-hughes]

By definition - if you are someone who injects street drugs into your system, you are not someone who ponders too much for too long about the potential consequences.

People take drugs to escape, in varying degrees, for varying times, for varying reasons.

At one end of the scale is the ritual glass of wine when you arrive home from work, at the other end is a drug like this which can cause you to lose limbs and eventually die.

Only the motivation is constant - a need to not be experiencing your life quite as intensely, for a time.

[Peter Pedant]

severn - the river not the number

god I have run out of things to say about non POM drug taking....
Oh if you need morphine, like you know your guts are hanging out of your mouth - then it is rare to get addicted

[Peter Pedant]

thank god Andie chips in a relevant comment

foo - - two I mean

and so when I was in Hospital with my guts hanging out of my mouth I found morphine sedative
and when they stopped ( surgeon and operation involved in that one) I found morphine unpleasant

not news - everyone does ( apparently)

[youngmafbog]

So alcohol is the same level as this then is it?

Tell that to the Rozzers when they are nicking you for a Class A.

Indeed this drug cant really even be compared with weed or similar, it is a dreadful drug.

[andy-hughes]

YMB - // So alcohol is the same level as this then is it? //

And the So Rule appears once again ...

[naomi24]

No it doesn't. That was a question - not a statement.

[naomi24]

//Only the motivation is constant //

That's not necessarily true. The truly dreadful experiences of an addict needing a fix is, in itself, motivation.

[ToraToraTora]

Any drug thread always seems to induce a comparison with alcohol, it's not helpful there is no correlation, no comparison and no relevancy.

[andy-hughes]

TTT - // Any drug thread always seems to induce a comparison with alcohol, it's not helpful there is no correlation, no comparison and no relevancy. //

I take your point that alcohol is not necessarily relevant to this particular discussion, but there absolutely in correlation and comparison between alcohol and any other drug, commercially available or illegal.

Drugs are designed to alter consciousness, and that is a factor they all share, and that is a fundamental and irrefutable basis for their use.

As I mentioned, there are obviously scales and variatios - the glass of wine at one end of the scale, and the heroin overdose at the other.

But that does not alter the fact that the motivation to ingest any drug, is to adjust the perceptions of the user to whatever degree they feel they need.

And therefore, alcohol has its place in any and all lists of drugs that are ingested by individuals.

It is a socially acceptable, woven into the very fabric of our culture, but the motive for ingesting it, for the yuppie in Docklands wine bar, or the crack addict in Brixton, is precisely the same, alteration of the mental state.

And that is a constant across any and all non-prescription drugs taken by anyone anywhere in the world.

[andres]

Not long ago it was Spice. That turned people into zombies. Now its one that rots their flesh. What will the next one do?