• MoonlightFox@lemmy.world
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    Yep, dangerous stuff. I once had some minor surgery done. Afterwards I was sitting outside in a patient waiting room in a bed waiting for the drugs to stop working.

    I brought my laptop and watched some episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm. It was hilarious and super comfortable.

    I can never do that again, it’s obviously super addictive. The medical professionals are right in being really strict when giving out opiates in my country.

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      Apparently people’s responses in this situation are a good indication of their vulnerability to addiction in general.

      Anecdotally it makes sense. I’ve had morphine multiple times (after accidents) and found it meh. I certainly wasn’t asking for more. It so happens that I hardly ever drink and I’ve never done drugs of any kind or even wanted to*, despite having no moral objections to them and being around a ton of people who do them all.

      *Okay, except psychedelics.

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        I think it varies by class of drugs (edit: and how they interact with your personality). I’ve used opiates and benzos before and enjoyed myself without feeling like I’d really care to try it again, but I definitely flirted with disaster/addiction with stimulants for a decade plus and alcohol for my entire adult life.

        And it didn’t take long; the first time I tried any stimulant, I chased it (and I’ve tried a lot of them).

        Psychedelics, on the other hand, I love and in most people there is little to no danger for addiction. I’d go so far as to say that unless you have a family or personal history of schizophrenia, psychedelics are almost a must for understanding or coming to peace with life, death, and society.

        A good psychedelic trip is literally life-changing, and even a bad trip is life-changing if you go into it with a decent trip sitter and the attitude that a bad trip is still just showing you yourself and the things you need to work on.