Sagamite:

I wonder if it is a disease that make you put cocaine up your nose the first few times or irresponsible choices.

Sagamite:

E pe le, eyin omo church.

I will never have pity for people that destroy their own lives. Good Riddance.

If you want to live, you will not be risking your life in a stewpid way.

The world is becoming overpopulated, resources are finite and limited. Thank you Amy for volunteering your share.

eldee:

For celebrities that are exposed day and night to these things, and the pressure you get from being choked by today's media . . . all these things with the fact that she was already a troubled person before the drugs just make it almost unavoidable.

Sagamite:

So it was a choice, not a disease?

Because my understanding of disease is an involuntary malfunctioning, breakdown or disorder of a bodily organ?

ibkaye:

you seem angry?  

eldee:

Someone forgot to tell you that drug dependence is almost always linked to many other involuntary factors like depression and stress.

Super T:

That what Drug can do. Run for your dear life. Its destroyed.

That will served as a lesson to others.

Sagamite:

They have the choice not to.
And if they do and it fcks them up, fck them. Am I suppose to have pity?

If you use hard drugs everyday, you will be addicted!
How come we are not addicted to food?

Food is addictive is really a silly argument.

Because more people take alcohol? Isn't it?

Is it addictive or not?
It is not like everything in life. It is addictive and it harms you and you do not need it. That is not how everything in life is.
What the fck don't you get in that?

Aspirin is used to relieve pain! It is not recreational?

Yep!
Some of us get on very fine without it.
It is not as irresponsible as those that take crack. It is milder irresponsibility.

THEY . . . . DO . . . . . NOT . . . . . NEED . . . . . IT!

Don't go back to comparing driving to taking crack. That is moronic.

davidylan:

At least this is one problem the poor can never have. They cant afford the drugs in the first place.

Seun:

It's not the first, and it won't  be the last.  Hollywood has a serious drug problem and something should be done.

Sagamite:

Almost always? I think not.

First off, we need to backtrack and differentiate between drug taking and drug dependency. The latter follows the former.

davidylan:

At least this is one problem the poor can never have. They cant afford the drugs in the first place.

BABE!:

Are you agreeing with me or disagreeing with me? Anyways---

The term "Addiction--drug addiction" can be termed as a disease. We all know that inhaling/injecting drugs into your body in excess, is bad -- this infers that the result of the excess dosage is a/are diseases. Therefore, addiction is a disease. Plus, it's a  "psychological disease" --- that's why rehabs were invented.

I said it was 20% choice, because an individual indirectly chooses to get addicted.

eldee:

I know you feel the need to just talk . . . but I won't sit here and talk for hours.

I said addiction is a disease and you're here giving me B.S about backtrack. . . you thought I meant taking paracetamol once a year or what?
Let's all use our brains and avoid the baseless B.S . . . it makes life easier for everyone.

eldee:

I'm sorry but this is a daft thing to say.

Sagamite:

Well, you can't get addicted to something you don't take, can you?

It is a choice to take something you know will harm you, isn't it?

Let's use our brains to think like that before we try and lamely absorb people of fault.

coogar:

if they don't need to, they would not use it. i am willing to bet all these celebrities use drugs. the usage just varies from person to person.

coogar:

i disagree. my boss uses marijuana quite frequently and he is not addicted. he can go months without it if he wants to.

coogar:

it's not. there are various eating disorders - read it up.

coogar:

the ratio not the actual number of deaths.

coogar:

which is why i said 99%. besides, the fact that some things are addictive does not mean every user will be addicted to them.

coogar:

just letting you know you can also take some drugs for purely medicinal purposes and still die if overused. your argument is taking drugs is irresponsible and i am saying it's not. the quantity taken is the determinant whether its responsible or not. commercial adverts now say "drink responsibly" - they do not say "don't drink". there's a line between responsibility and irresponsibility.

coogar:

the fact that some of youse get on without it does not mean everyone else would. this is point you cannot see.
besides, there's nothing called milder irresponsibility. that is clutching at straws. one is either responsible or irresponsible. no one can sit on the fence in that sphere of life.

coogar:

why are they taking it if they don't need it. have you walked in their shoes?

coogar:

a certain degree of risk is involved in both activities. it does not matter whether the purpose of that activity is positive or negative as long as both of them are capable of killing.

coogar:

the users do not take drugs deliberately to get addicted, they take it to "feel cool"
lack of self-control leads them to addiction. after the addiction, some of them want to quit - they do everything to quit but they cannot!
these people are helpless. you think they continue because they are stubborn but that is not true.

Sagamite:

Well, you can't get addicted to something you don't take, can you?

It is a choice to take something you know will harm you, isn't it?

Let's use our brains to think like that before we try and absorb people of fault lamely.

eldee:

See how using your brain before typing feels?? You should try it more often.

Anyway, many people have done drugs at one point or the other, from alcohol to Coke, to even legal highs. The difference me doing Mcat/Alcohol/Tobacco/Coke today and never trying it again and someone that gets addicted to it are factors that are usually not in our control. (Social, environmental, biological. . . etc)

This is common sense . . . if I need to explain this on a public forum that's supposed to have intelligent young people from Nigeria, then I cry for the future of my country.

Sagamite:

Utter rubbish!

So people need drugs to perform. Utter clunking rubbish!

Drugs aid them in performing, they do not need it.

Rubbish! If he uses it frequently as in everyday, he will be most likely addicted.

Stop fighting science!
Stop chatting rubbish!

A disorder is an addiction?
Really?

Put your figures down.
Back it up!

Get it in your head: 99% of everything in life is not harmful, addictive and needed.
You were WRONG!

So you are using what is needed for medicinal reasons to justify what is taken for recreational reason? That is purely asinine! I can't be diplomatic about that.

Your argument gets more moronically ridiculous?
People can not get on without alcohol?

Fck me! That is extremely reetarded argument.
I don't need to walk in the shoe of ediots to know when they are being ediots.

Using driving to justify drug taking.
Reetard!

Sagamite:

I thought your daft arse said they took it because they needed it?

Sagamite:

You are a mooron!

How is everything  you said a "disease" as you claimed?

So it is a choice to take drugs and if you don't "try" it then you can not get addicted?

And anyone that "tries" it and gets addicted only have themselves to blame and not your moronic excuse of disease?

eldee:

You've switched it off again . . . repeating yourself won't help you.

Okay, I've tried alcohol/tobacco a few times, I'm not addicted . . . another person tries it the same amount of times and get hooked.
Now we both made the choice to try it, but he didn't decide to get hooked. . . that's the difference.
Why did he get hooked, these goes way beyond just choice.

Coogar used an example of over-the-counter drugs, we all take them, but some get addicted, why?? They felt like destroying their liver??
There's enough medical research to show that addiction is when the brain has been affected.

You can attempt to trivialise it as much as you want, that's your choice . . . let's just hope is your cultural/religious ideologies at work and not just you on a normal day.