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PatrickMD was merely trying to insult you. He lives at the spiritual consciousness of shame which is 20, just a step above death and suicide. He could grow spiritually and achieve the higher states of Guilt, then Apathy, then Grief, then Fear, then Desire, then Anger, then Pride, then if he gets honest and moves on, he can experience Courage, then Neutrality, then Willingness, then Acceptance, then Reason, then Love, then Joy, then Peace, then low and behold, Enlightenment.
I was wanting to get the general opinion of everyone regarding drug abuse in the last four decades. I've heard that the 70's were pretty crazy but do you think there is more or less drug abuse now than there was in the 70's, 80's and 90's? I was debating this a friend on New Years Eve.
For sure it has, I just posted about this in the politics section. As far as prescription drugs, the use has definitely increased, for mental health uses and for painkillers. How much of this is for recreational use I don't know.
Everyday people didn't take heroin in the Seventies - only rock stars and messed up people . . . today, it seems to be more common as an experimental party drug (don't really know, but that's what I imagine).
Everyday people didn't take heroin in the Seventies - only rock stars and messed up people . . . today, it seems to be more common as an experimental party drug (don't really know, but that's what I imagine).
Maybe true. But actually heroin was common prior to 70's. Remember all the jazz musicians and beatniks of the 50's.
Everyday people didn't take heroin in the Seventies - only rock stars and messed up people . . . today, it seems to be more common as an experimental party drug (don't really know, but that's what I imagine).
Heroin has never been a party drug. Ppl who are on it are not interested in other ppl. Just staring at a wall feeling euphoria but not interested in interaction.
It's intersting that heroin use has skyrocketed. Just the other day the governor of Vermont gave his state of the state speech and focused on only one subject: heroin use in the state.
The most noticable thing that's happened in the past few decades I think is that drug abuse has moved out from the big cities. Ther's now an awful lot of it in small towns and rural areas, which is something I never saw in the 70s and 80s. That includes heroin in places like Vermont, oxys and other painkillers in Appalachia (among many other places of course),and small towns everywhere with a lot of meth users. And that's in addtiion to the alcohol and weed that could always be found outside the big cities. So it feels as if there is more drug use than before across the board, even if the crack scourge has abated.
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I think there is less drug use now but the drugs being used now are harder-meth,heroin,oxy and other pills vs the weed,hash,coke of the 70s.
Probably because of the huge increase in prescription drug abuse.
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