Dear Chris,
(the doctor is in again after having gone to theater
for the Chicago afternoon play):
I think that drugs are bad for your health in the
sense that they can cause undesired and unexpected
reactions("sudden death", being one of them,
especially with "Ecstasy" and cocaine.)
Fat and nicotine causes both "sudden" and slow death
(see hear conditions, heart attacks, , emphysema,
cancer and strokes).
Alcohol taken in "drug-like" proportions almost
inevitably brings the liver to cyrrosis, we all know
that. Salt is the worse of all.
I am not questioning whether drugs are necessary and
have beneficial effects: they are to soothe
existential and physical pain (grief especially).
Drugs for entertainment : I cannot see the point of
them. Reactions are too unpredictable to really
wanting to take the risk. But I speak from the point
of view of someone who loves life and therefore wishes
to avoid adverse and irreversible drug reactions. So
I would fall only among those who would take drugs for
entertainment.
In effect, I fear that the majority of people who
abuse these drugs fall among those who do not love
life and most terribly do not care about their health
because of pain and discomfort. They cannot quit and
cannot really choose.
By the way, tobacco smoking is the largest single
preventable cause of death and disease in Australia.
I imagine alcohol dependance being the first in the
UK, causing and caused by depression.
Erminia
(the doctor will be out again soon to the Chinese
restaurant.)
--- cris cheek <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> hi Erminia
>
> aside from that list (what about caffeine, alchohol,
> salt and fat while
> we're at this scaremongering) what's your point
>
> how do you define drugs and are they 'bad' for
> 'u'?:)
>
> love and love
> cris
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