Silly Anti-Drug movement

[Kanamori]

You could inject yourself twice a day with a reasonable dose using sterile equipment and pharm grade stuff and probably not suffer any herion related diseases or complications for 20 years.

The problem with continuous usage of Heroin is two-fold in my mind. One: injecting often can lead collapsed veins and all sorts of other nastiness, not to mention unsightly pin-prick marks around the veins that cause irritation. And two: using often builds resistence to the drug, requiring more and more to get the same 'rush'.

moderation? I don't believe theres a such thing when it comes to narcotics, they might have taken so much that they were completely burnt out and went to a de-tox clinic, or had some powerful force in their life that made them quit...but a drug like meth, you can't just be moderate in its use like alcohol.

This is quite wrong, although I cannot comment on meth. With any drug, there are different effects with different dosages. The problem is that finding the outter edge effects of more dangerous drugs leads to death more easily than with alcohol. Still, alcohol is much worse than many of the drugs which are regulated/banned. When you smoke yourself silly, you don't wake up the next morning with your body half dead from poison. Not to mention that many, many other drugs don't harm the body nearly as much as alcohol.

Being high, no. Losing your self-control as a result of that high, yes.

Not that scare tactics work anyway. People know they're not going to catch anything, it only happens to others.

...The only time pot will make you lose self-control is when you fall asleep from too much.

Although doctors addicted to opiates is not as common as doctors addicted to strange barbs or tranqs.

Which is especially odd to me given that they ought to know how much more dangerous barbituate addiction can be than opiod addiction. The physical withdraw symptoms are quite painful, by all accounts, and with worse addiction, quitting cold-turkey can kill you.