Guenny wrote:
Do some of you people really not think of alcohol as a drug? It's a mind and body altering drug, and a poison. Nothing I've ever taken has made me as sick as alcohol would on a semi-regular basis. I don't deny that some of you may merely be "psychologically dependent" on alcohol, but the ignorance about alcohol that is displayed as a whole by society is disgusting to me. It's "socially" accepted, and legal, so it's okay, right? What happens when instead of taking one of the vicodin my doctor prescribed me for a headache, I take two, because I want to feel numb? How is that different than getting sloppy off of 6 drinks when you told yourself you were gonna only have 3?
And also, Moe, since you're uninformed, juvenile drinking is one of the leading causes of alcoholism in adults. Oh, but wait, alcohol isn't addictive... so I must just be making up these words. Alcoholics don't exist, except apparently in the realm of leprechauns and succubi. Drug addicts, however, are on your street corner, ready to get your kid high and sell him illegal plants!
What's socially accepted is drinking in moderation, not alcoholism.
Simply because some people are dumb f'ucks, doesn't make it a drug. You taking two vicodins instead of one is no different than someone drinking until they hit the floor...both are stupid. Both are also of free will; the booze/vicodin didn't urge you to take more, you made that choice yourself.
Juvenile drinking is because most kids wanna do what they aren't supposed to cause it's cool. They drink because they aren't 21. Some kids don't go passed moderate drinking, others will drink themselves into degrading Facebook pictures.
I just consider it a modernized form of natural selection.
Let's just pretend that drug line isn't there. kthnx
Edited, Jul 10th 2010 1:15pm by Exodus