Dispelling the Lies about Drugs

There's an abundance of misinformation about drugs that the general public continues to forward onto others. Over the next several days I’m going to write some essays that are intended to explode those untruths. When people think drugs are safe to take they will make it okay in their own mind to take them. What can happen and often has happened to some people is addiction. A dwindling spiral of drug taking takes place and then before the person is even aware of it he or she is addicted.

Now onto our myth busting, the first myth is that there are good drugs and bad drugs. All drugs are poisons. That is a usable definition of a drug. Agreed, there are times where it is wiser to have a drug than to not have it, for example, an anesthetic for an operation. Maybe a pain pill if the pain is more than one can bear. But make no mistake those drugs are still poisons and if a person thinks a drug is doing them good they are much more liable to take them when they aren’t necessary. And if they think some illegal drug is not going to damage them they will fall into the trap, as well.

If a drug is legal or illegal has no bearing on if it is good or bad. A good working stable idea would be that all drugs are bad, and if you know that all drugs are poisons, as we said, then I think you will agree with that. Occasionally a drug may be necessary, but that doesn’t make it a good drug as it is only temporarily needed where the alleviation of a pain overbalances the harmful effect that it creates.

Where drugs are concerned a small amount will act as a stimulant. A greater amount will act as a sedative and a very large enough amount of a drug consumed too fast will kill one. That, naturally includes alcohol, which is definitely a drug too.

An example of the previous paragraph would be someone using pot. After just a little amount of the drug he is more stimulated and may act “happy.” After even more of the drug he will be tired and lethargic and if a person just chained smoked pot endlessly, it would sooner or later kill them.

Even though pot is a relatively mild drug compared to many other legal and illegal drugs it is still detrimental over the long, or short haul and has collective effects as do all drugs.

In the next essay we’ll get into the effects drugs can have on the mind and other negative effects as well.

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