Why doesn’t the runners high damage the body in the same way repeatedly taking a drug would

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If a runners high arises when the body produces endorphins while running, why doesn’t this damage the body / have negative effects in the same way taking a drug (say, some drug which also produces endorphins in the body) would?

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If you were to compare the euphoria of meth vs a runners high, the meth wins by about 1000 times.

It’s not so much the drug that does the damage but the withdrawal and means to reintroduce the drug into the system.

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