Why is it that the most addictive substances are also the most dangerous? Shouldn’t those two factors be independent?
In: Chemistry
Many of the addictive drugs aren’t *that* bad for you if you dose it properly and don’t do it consistently.
Fentanyl is used in the hospital all the time. Same with oxycodone, morphine, etc.
The problem is that they are a little bit bad for you, your liver needs to process it, it can raise blood pressure which affects your heart. Things like that, among many more.
Like alcohol. It’s not good for your liver, your heart, but having a drink every now and then isn’t going to instantly destroy your liver.
Every once in a while it’s not too bad, but addictive drugs are often used by users, well, often. Every day. Multiple times per day. This all adds up, and in the end it damages your body a lot.
This also isn’t to mention to overdose angle. Drugs usually are dangerous when used in too high of doses. But that’s true with many things. The problem with drugs is that people like them a lot and want to get higher, so they take a lot of it. If you take too much, it can kill you right then and there.
While that’s true with many things, you don’t usually see people taking insanely high doses of Tylenol or aspirin. Because there’s no gain to be had from doing so.
One final point, drugs that are illegal are not made by regulated companies. So you do not know exactly what you are getting. It is extra dangerous to do illegal drugs because there might be something else in there that you don’t know, and you can accidentally overdose very easily. Very easily. Thousands die every year because of that.
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