Why is drug use so prevalent in so many nations today?

Summary

Why is Drug Use So Prevalent in So Many Nations Today? explores addiction, escape, and societal forces driving widespread substance use across cultures.

Why is drug use so prevalent in so many nations today? Since the beginning of time, people have used drugs, and some animals have even developed an addiction to particular plants.

The use of hallucinogenic drugs is widespread in many religious ceremonies. They are used to produce an outer body experience and gain celestial insights. In modern times, creating drug addicts appears to be a military strategy. This strategy is implemented to weaken a society or nation.

I started using drugs because some of the people that I knew encouraged me to use them. I continued using drugs because of the pleasure they brought me. It was also a means of escaping my reality. My life held so many areas of dissatisfaction for me. As my addiction gained more control of me, I became increasingly ashamed of myself. I isolated myself from my family. I did not want them to see me in such a pitiful condition.

I was capable of overcoming my drug habit, except for cigarettes. Nonetheless, the side effects of habitual drug use are still visible in my life. The knowledge and awareness of so many wasted years stay. My ambitions are shattered.

My story is common. Yet, that does not answer why drug use is so rampant. Why are so many people so willing to lose their minds? Why are governments the most active and organized drug dealers, even to the harm of their own people?

There are people on the web who want to profit from the disillusionment and sorrows of others. They walk or drive up and down streets invading people’s privacy for monetary clicks on their video channels. They have no empathy for human suffering. They are like carnivores eating away at rotting flesh with their concealed cameras and indifference to personal tragedies. But even this despicable effort does not explain why drug and alcohol abuse are so prolific today.

I am an active cigarette user. I am also a former user of marijuana and cocaine. I can understand the wish for relief, pleasure, and escape that drug use seems to bring. I also understand the abundant devastation to dreams and productiveness that addiction brings.

The core reason for my drug use was a feeling of being inadequate and low self-esteem. I still feel inadequate in several ways. My self-esteem is marginal at best. Nevertheless, now I can appreciate my shortcomings with a sober mind. This mindset gives me active avenues of approach in addressing them.

It is so disheartening to see the people of the fertile soil falling apart. They are losing any number of brain cells at a time. As it is likewise depressing to witness the flowing rivers embracing personality traits that are toxic and foreign to them. The world is awash in the addiction of self-indulgence and appeasement of self. Governments are becoming societies’ most destructive entity. Financial institutions are making vast amounts of money on human suffering and spilled blood.

Despite constant butchering and wars too many people are overwhelming all other forms of nature. But none of this explains why drug addiction is ripping the life out of so many cultures throughout the world. There are no adequate answers to this disheartening phenomenon. This is just a brief period of self-induced trauma for a developing or diminishing species. Forgive my language if I sound in any way disrespectful. The freedom of expression compels me to be true to myself.

I am a former drug user. I dare not give any advice to anyone on how to curtail their drug habit. All I can say is that I became so ashamed of my actions to obtain a brief high. It reached a point where I no longer get high, no matter the amount of my drug intake. The feeling of guilt overwhelmed me. Shame also consumed me. Additionally, the frustration of not getting high anymore troubled me. Yet, I did not stop my pursuit of the high I no longer obtain.

I was arrested and taken out of my drug environment. Only then did I have a chance to make the change in my life. It was a change that I so desperately wanted. It took weeks and three to four showers a day to get the drugs out of my system.

I smell the awful smell of my drug addiction. It was being cleansed from the pores of my skin. And without any effort on my part my wish for drugs simply vanished. I have been clean and sober since, which has now reached two decades.

I can understand addiction. It is sorrowing to see how epidemic it is, especially among the first born of humanoids.