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However, regardless of the reason for initial usage, it's important to keep in mind that people are more likely to continue using drugs if they believe it makes them feel better.

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mebesideme said:
Drugs are an escape from standard human sensual reactions to reality, and nothing more. They alter the way we perceive what our senses pick up by obscuring the reaction of chemicals between our bodies and brains. Most people like the way that reality changes for them while under the influence of a certain drug because it is predictable. Why then do we take them to begin with, even when we may not know what they'll do? Curiosity. The human desire is to be as close in form, function, and ability to perfect as possible; to be impenetrable both physically and mentally. Some feel that chemicals achieve this for them; those that do are blind and have a "problem". Unfortunately, there are another group in just as much trouble: the millions of brainwashed people wasting away on fast food, pop culture, and gasoline fumes are living in as much a fantasy world as the drug-heads, because when it comes down to it, all that really matters is survival. It also the way of humanity to manipulate one's environment as much as is suited until some aspect of a peoples' identity with normal life is threatened, either to the point of feeling the possibility of losing it or having to end up coping with out it at all; the environment in this case being your brain, or consumer Earth.

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ExplosiveMango said:
Why has everyone neglected to mention healing?

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it's not unusual for users of LSD (L-S-D) to claim that the drug expands their minds or gives them new insights into life's mysteries.

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