woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) (03/29/86)
> This suggests some relationship between stress and the consumption > of drugs. A lot of people believe this, but I don't. How much "stress" you feel about something is totally under your control. Of course, that assumes adults; for teens, whose self-control is just forming, things are out the window. But I never have bought the argument that things that happen in your life can "make" you react in a certain way. What "makes" people react in a "predictable" way is their own belief that they "should" react in that way, combined with their unwillingness to see any other possible reaction, despite the suffering they incur onto themselves for reacting the way they "have to". How much you choose to "escape" with drugs may well be related to this statistically, but that assumes that everyone who enjoys drugs is intending to "escape" from some "stress". It does not take into account the possibility that some perfectly-well-adjusted people might find drugs pleasurable for their own reasons. --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | decvax!noao | mcvax!seismo | ihnp4!seismo} !hao!woods CSNET: woods@ncar.csnet ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA "The darkness never goes, from some men's eyes.."