Reasons People Start Taking Drugs

There are many, many reasons why people start taking drugs. Ultimately, they think the drugs are a solution to a problem. At some point the drugs become the problem.

Here are some of the common reasons that young people say they take drugs:

They want to fit in
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They are bored
They think it makes them seem grown up
They want to rebel
They want to experiment

This would also include alcohol, as it is most absolutely a drug, as well. The large majority of adults do drink at least occasionally and most of them got their start as teenagers. Quite a few of the reasons for starting to drink alcohol are the very same for taking other drugs.

People may also get hooked onto prescription drugs, again as a solution to a problem, this time pain. The pain described could be emotional or mental, which is where psychiatric drugs come into play. Lest anyone thinks that psychiatric drugs are less harmful because they are prescribed by a doctor, you would be sadly mistaken. The actuality is that some of these psychiatric drugs have many more damaging side effects than street drugs, plus, some of them are harder to withdraw from than street drugs.

What makes prescription drugs so potentially harmful is the fact of being prescribed by a doctor; it gives people the idea that they will not be a problem. Nothing could be further from the truth. The unfortunate truth is in today’s medical schools much of the doctor’s training has to do with which drugs handle which symptoms. The reason for this is that so many medical schools get a lot of their funding from pharmaceutical companies. Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies don’t remotely have the reputation for high ethical values. Whereas, undoubtedly many of the employees have good intentions, sadly, for the companies, the bottom line rules.

There have been countless law suits that drug companies have settled out of court for the purpose of keeping the true data quiet while they go on poisoning the citizens of this country. You might think that could not be true since the FDA or Congress would not permit it. But again, money rules because drug companies pay the FDA bills and they are the biggest donors to politicians.

In the end, the most important data to know is that drugs cause problems, sometimes they can help to a degree, but both street drugs and medical drugs are often used as an unnecessary crutch, that can lead to a much greater trap.