why do people do drugs?
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because there are too many things going through thier head at once.  Drugs make you stop thinking, escape problems, but they are always waiting when you return so you have to do more.
818273
Society defines what is acceptable drug use and what is abuse. It does not have to make sense because its all wrapped up in the politics of drugs. \n\nMixing drugs isn't really abuse its just stupid, which has no cure other than when the stupid manage to kill themselves. Using a minor drug like marijuana to control pain may be illegal but it is not abuse. Using marijuana to get high is drug abuse, so is using alcohol to get drunk.
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There are two reasons:\n\n1.  Nicotine (the drug in tobacco) is one of the most addicting drugs around.\n\n2.  Smokers build habits around their smoking.  For example, after eating, with their coffee, taking a break, etc.
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I think the "why" isn't that hard - drugs are harmful to the body, and can cause injury to people who aren't taking the drugs (like running over someone while high, for example). The "how" is much harder. There are two approaches, which basically seem like opposite ends of the spectrum. The first approach is to toughen drug penalties. The theory behind this is that people will stay up locked behind bars longer, so they won't be abusing drugs, and that if the penalties are high enough, people will be afraid of them and stop using drugs. The other approach is to increase the number of rehabilitation programs, and possibly loosen drug penalties so that, instead of serving jail time, the offenders go to the program instead. Whichever approach seems to work is your personal opinion.
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drug addiction is a choice. you choose to do the drugs but if the addiction part was a choice than things would be better cause people could get off of them and the treatment for the drug addicition would still be rahab or jail cause they choose to be addictied.
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there is nothing wrong with drugs themselves. any drug, if used properly, in moderation, and for a purpose other than just getting f*cked up, can be a usefull tool for expanding the use of the brain and seeing things from a different perspective (something that people should do more often). some of the most brilliant minds in history were drug users. i'm not saying there aren't risks; any tool used recklessly can cause alot of damage. give a kid a hammer and don't teach him to use it properly, and see what happens. windows get broken and maybe hands get smashed. give that hammer to someone old enough to swing it, and teach him the right way to use it, and houses get built. we should stop pretending that drugs have no value and start educating those who choose to use them. and i don't mean "dare". all i ever did in that class was draw joints in the hands of the cartoon characters in the d.a.r.e handbook. and i wasn't even interested in drugs at the time. to me, d.a.r.e. was just another pointless class i had to sit through while counting the minutes 'till the end of the day. big deal.
567376
Probably cuz the are on crack or some kind of drugs!!
1113977
I think drugs r wrong.  no one shuld do them.  the more people use drugs the more our world is goin straight down the drain.  i dont kno about any one else but i would definately not ever do drugs and i wuld nevr hang out wit people who do drugs b-cuz they r jus goin to drag me and others down in life.  i and many others want a good future and drugs promise nothing but prison, HELL, and death!\nDRUGS R TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
185793
This question needs to be more defined. Every drug affects every person differently. They are used for recreation, they are used to cure, they are used to help in life. There are effects would be way to numerous to try to list here.
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It's a combination of life stressors that makes a person give in to finding a way to, what's called in the psychology field as 'self-medicating'. A person tries to find a way to get rid of pain/memories/events/thoughts, and the thing that does it are drugs, whether they be in the form of pills, heroin, cocaine, meth, etc. \n\nI know, it's sad, isn't it?
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People who use drugs experience a wide array of physical effects other than those expected. The excitement of a cocaine high, for instance, is followed by a “crash” : a period of anxiety, fatigue, depression, and an acute desire for more cocaine to alleviate the feelings of the crash. Marijuana and alcohol interfere with motor control and are factors in many automobile accidents. Users of marijuana and hallucinogenic drugs may experience flashbacks, unwanted recurrences of the drug's effects weeks or months after use. Sudden abstinence from certain drugs results in withdrawal symptoms. For example, heroin withdrawal can cause vomiting, muscle cramps, convulsions, and delirium. With the continued use of a physically addictive drug, tolerance develops; i.e., constantly increasing amounts of the drug are needed to duplicate the initial effect.\n\n\nBecause the purity and dosage of illegal drugs are uncontrolled, drug overdose is a constant risk. There are over 10,000 deaths directly attributable to drug use in the United States every year; the substances most frequently involved are cocaine, heroin, and morphine, often combined with alcohol or other drugs. Many drug users engage in criminal activity, such as burglary and prostitution, to raise the money to buy drugs, and some drugs, especially alcohol, are associated with violent behavior.
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Parental neglect, peer pressure, lack of self esteem, lack of motivation, lack of supervision and genetic propensity to addiction.\n\nTeens who use drugs are found in every race and every socio-economic level.
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Drugs are just a desperate attempt to escape from your reality. Why not try to improve your reality instead?
539201
No one wants to be a drug addict or alcoholic, but this doesn’t stop people from getting addicted. The most commonly asked question is simply - how? How could my son, daughter, father, sister, or brother become a liar, a thief, someone who cannot be trusted? How could this happen? And why won’t they stop?\n\nThe first thing you must understand about addiction is that alcohol and addictive drugs are basically painkillers.  They chemically kill physical or emotional pain and alter the mind’s perception of reality.  They make people numb.\n\nFor drugs to be attractive to a person there must first be some underlying unhappiness, sense of hopelessness, or physical pain.
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anyone who uses needs to get a life...drugs are only a crutch for those too weak to face reality. This world doesn't have space for drugged up losers. They don't call it dope for nothing..what a waste of time, money and a human life.
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Hey I'm 18-- The reason teens do drugs, smoke, and drink is because it makes you look better also, when you're having a horrible day it feels soooooo good to just get high or drunk to let all your problems go because when you're high you don't have to think about every thing that's happening. The reason teens have problems with parents is because they are closed minded. I mean like when you've had a bad day your folks try to say they know what its like but they don't know what it feels like to be you because the would is way different than in the 1970's or 80's. The world is a bad place to grow up in and I wish for once that they would just listen to me and agree that life isn't fair. That's the reason kids do drugs.
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It doesn't have much to do with musicians - it's a psychological escape from "pain" usually and is very widespread throughout history, just because it's self "medication" makes it no less valid - getting high is about getting "not - low".\n\nA few people use it for spiritual experience/altered states and heavy drugs (alcohol included) can be lethal so mistakes happen -  alcohol and heroin stop your breathing, coke and x-tasy stops your heart and frys your brain (really turns all the lights on at once and leads to neurosis etc eventually depending on the person) . . . \n\nPeople who make a lot of "negative" statements about the use of drugs don't usually know much about the history - they've been around forever, but refined coke and heroin and "designer" chemicals are (modern plagues) new, concentrated and can be very dangerous. \n\nMany of these people didn't commit suicide (as in purposely end their life at that moment). It's far more complex than most are willing to even think about. They just make a simple uninformed judgement, it's sad because it doesn't help the situation out there to be blindly against something  - even drugs - remember drugs can save lives too