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▲ cryptoegorophy 6 hours ago

Oh so that’s how people turn into drug addicts? So simple solution is not to go for a “drug” fix, performance enhancer, but to just accept that you just “can’t” and figure out a way to not burn out. Seems insane to me that there is 2 roads - one to never be a drug addict, second one is to have an extremely high chance turning into a drug addict. What am I missing?

▲hattmall 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Well most people don't actually turn into addicts, it's just the people that do, that's how they start. Lots more people use stimulants and benzos occasionally without crossing into an addiction threshold.

▲thin_carapace 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

this thread discusses drugs of addiction that are prescribed en masse especially in north america. so a great imaginative starting point would be to imagine being told you must consume a hard drug to cure a condition that is inherently part of you. after a while you develop a tolerance to those drugs you have been taught are your savior. then you need more drugs to achieve the same feeling you were taught is 'normal'. could you begin to see how that might feel, and how the system could possibly be seen to push people to the brink due to systematic indifference in favor of systematic interests?