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user-inactivated  ·  3192 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "Drugs are BAD BAD BAD!"

    They're also not the ones we think about when we think "drug addict" either.

That's not what you think about - and I presume you're a US citizen. Where I grew up, we never had meth addicts. The worst we ever heard about was heroin. For me, those hooded Adidas-wearing young men are drug addicts ad extremis. It was much later that I learned about the debiliating effects of more potent drugs on one's skin, from the US media. Our views on the matter differ significantly. Compared to the US, my perception of a typical drug addict is much milder, and vice versa.