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sex is kind of boring in comparism to drugs
the good ones at least
cancer is completely non-related, or mostly at least, depends on the drug of preference
severe mental and social disorders are, to a certain extent, overexxagerated. I'm not saying there isn't a shitload of junkies out there who are quite pathetic, but the same can be said about alcoholics or just plain old crazydisfunctional people.
lack of awareness, debatable, as in, i've never heard it mentioned in this context, but whatever
loss of intelligence, ditto
reduced life expectancy is a given, but simply put, anything you do reduces your life expectancy and i'd like to draw a line between the crack addict living in the box and the recreational hallucinative user.