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<blockquote data-quote="MisterDeadeye" data-source="post: 7402741" data-attributes="member: 611015">I didn&#039;t redirect what you said. I&#039;ve read everything you&#039;ve said, and told you that you&#039;re wrong. Using drugs(in a non directed or directed way) doesn&#039;t necessarily harm your body. There are SEVERAL ways about the effects of drugs, depending on how much you use, how frequently you use them, and subtle differences in your brain chemistry.Thank you for bringing the hormone issue. The reason people go into depression(the length and intensity of the depression depends solely on how much of the drug you use) is actually simple to explain, and even more simple to prevent. There is a specific balance of serotonin and dopamine in the body that&#039;s needed to be normal rather than overly happy or depressed. You obviously know this, and I&#039;m not trying to say you don&#039;t. What I&#039;m saying you don&#039;t know is that while a certain drug(let&#039;s say LSD) is active in your brain/body, it is activating those specific serotonin, dopamine, etc., receptors. What this does is put an amount of stress(stress isn&#039;t harm) on those receptors. These receptors, like every receptor in the body, are actively mutating(using mutating because I can&#039;t think of a better word to use and don&#039;t feel like thinking more). For instance, when you&#039;re inside the house with the AC set on 70 degrees, and walk outside, the receptors in your skin and eyes tell you that some stimulus is providing you with heat. As you stay outside longer, those receptors no longer scream out, &quot;HEAT! HEAT! HEAT!&quot;, and you feel more comfortable. Once you&#039;re outside for a long period of time and go back into the cooled house, you feel colder than you were in the house.The same logic applies to serotonin and dopamine receptors in the brain. While you&#039;re operating normally, you aren&#039;t necessarily happy or sad. When you do LSD, your serotonin and dopamine(and others) receptors scream out, &quot;Woah! Far out, man!&quot;. Once you come back down(read, inside the cool house), you feel less happy because you are no longer experiencing the same amount of release from the serotonin receptors. Now, that was a simple analogy, and could be explained on a different level, but I felt this was the best way to explain the effects.Addiction wasn&#039;t brought into my argument because drug use and drug abuse are completely different, and should be treated as such. Chances are, if you abuse a drug, you do it for a deeper reason. Maybe you had a bad childhood. Maybe your dad touched you. Maybe you were picked on in school. Maybe your parents died. There are many different reasons for people to &quot;turn to drugs&quot;, or to &quot;rely on drugs&quot;. If drugs weren&#039;t readily available, or if chips and Little Debbie&#039;s snacks were better at making them numb than drugs, then they&#039;d surely abuse those, or they&#039;d abuse medicine or alcohol.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MisterDeadeye, post: 7402741, member: 611015"] I didn't redirect what you said. I've read everything you've said, and told you that you're wrong. Using drugs(in a non directed or directed way) doesn't necessarily harm your body. There are SEVERAL ways about the effects of drugs, depending on how much you use, how frequently you use them, and subtle differences in your brain chemistry. Thank you for bringing the hormone issue. The reason people go into depression(the length and intensity of the depression depends solely on how much of the drug you use) is actually simple to explain, and even more simple to prevent. There is a specific balance of serotonin and dopamine in the body that's needed to be normal rather than overly happy or depressed. You obviously know this, and I'm not trying to say you don't. What I'm saying you don't know is that while a certain drug(let's say LSD) is active in your brain/body, it is activating those specific serotonin, dopamine, etc., receptors. What this does is put an amount of stress(stress isn't harm) on those receptors. These receptors, like every receptor in the body, are actively mutating(using mutating because I can't think of a better word to use and don't feel like thinking more). For instance, when you're inside the house with the AC set on 70 degrees, and walk outside, the receptors in your skin and eyes tell you that some stimulus is providing you with heat. As you stay outside longer, those receptors no longer scream out, "HEAT! HEAT! HEAT!", and you feel more comfortable. Once you're outside for a long period of time and go back into the cooled house, you feel colder than you were in the house. The same logic applies to serotonin and dopamine receptors in the brain. While you're operating normally, you aren't necessarily happy or sad. When you do LSD, your serotonin and dopamine(and others) receptors scream out, "Woah! Far out, man!". Once you come back down(read, inside the cool house), you feel less happy because you are no longer experiencing the same amount of release from the serotonin receptors. Now, that was a simple analogy, and could be explained on a different level, but I felt this was the best way to explain the effects. Addiction wasn't brought into my argument because drug use and drug abuse are completely different, and should be treated as such. Chances are, if you abuse a drug, you do it for a deeper reason. Maybe you had a bad childhood. Maybe your dad touched you. Maybe you were picked on in school. Maybe your parents died. There are many different reasons for people to "turn to drugs", or to "rely on drugs". If drugs weren't readily available, or if chips and Little Debbie's snacks were better at making them numb than drugs, then they'd surely abuse those, or they'd abuse medicine or alcohol. [/QUOTE]

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