Why do people like drugs?

[rupol2000]

The fact that drugs are neurotransmitters and act on nerve circuits is a secondary issue. The main question is that the formation of these synaptic connections was the path to the survival of the species. Everything that a person likes through sensations is useful for him from the point of view of evolution, for example, sweets are a signal for concentrated carbohydrates, thus a person, without knowing anything about biochemistry, supplies himself with energy. This is a fixed associative connection, unconditioned reflexes.

This means that narcotic substances are useful.

In particular, tobacco and cocaine, for example, are powerful antiseptics, and a person can get rid of parasites in this way.

Tobacco smoke and opium can be powerful antioxidants.

And so on.

Therefore, drugs are useful, and if we claim that they are harmful, we are trying to refute the wisdom of nature itself.

 

[Blues Man]

As with anything it is the overuse that is the problem.

 

[Innocynioc]

I'm just guessing here, but could it be that people like drugs because they temporarily make you feel good. The same could be said for scratching poison ivy lesions.

 

[rupol2000]

I'm just guessing here, but could it be that people like drugs because they temporarily make you feel good. The same could be said for scratching poison ivy lesions.

you did not understand. Preferences are formed evolutionarily. What you say could not have been formed by evolution.

 

[Meister]

Thread closed, need some linked sources to the facts. But, Rupol already knew this.

 

[White 6]

you did not understand. Preferences are formed evolutionarily. What you say could not have been formed by evolution.

Dude! Are you bouncing this crap off us, as you rationalize getting back on the needle, maybe riding that big white horse to hell? Everybody knows why people like drugs. They can be a lot of fun in the short term. Problem is, over-indulgence is almost always personally destructive, often to the point of being deadly. Most of us found at an early age, we just didn't have time for it, to begin with, and didn't want to fk up our lives and the lives of loved ones around us, making it a lifestyle.