Just like any other drug, if you use it every single day you're going to get addicted and have problems.

Its hard to feel sorry for someone who does that. Learn some self control. I've been through heroin withdrawals in my youth as well as the seizures that come with benzo withdrawals and I figured out before I was 19 "huh, it seems like if I take these drugs every day I'm going to get addicted"

Its common sense.

It really is not that hard to skip a couple days here and there even if you're a fiend. And if you're a poly drug addict just switch drugs every 3 days or so. I did that for a time after 19 and I did it heavy and had zero withdrawals when I quit doing it that way. So there's really no excuse for that shit. Learn how to control your addictions or go to rehab.

The drug war sure isn't working though, is it? The courts ruin way more lives than addiction does.

Idk what the answer is but this prohibition across the board is stupid and doesn't actually help anyone.

I find myself hating the physical drugs existence less and less and hating the addict who lacks any modicum of self control more and more as time goes on. Go through the withdrawals and move on, no excuse.

There seems to be a significant percentage of the population that needs its hand held for every single thing. That's why we can't get OTC antibiotics, that's why they won't prescribe pain pills anymore to people who need them, that's why they have created a prison system that is the most filled per capita of any country even though we aren't even close to the size of others. People who lack self control have ruined it for others who know how to manage medications/drugs effectively and not do it every single day and then act surprised when they start having withdrawals.

I know people who can't get pain medicine (again because of all the fucking addicts who lack any self control ruining it for everyone else) and kratom and 7OH is all they have to manage that pain. So of course its going to be demonized. Can't have people being helped if it can make them feel warm and tingly as a side effect.