What makes a person try hard drugs?

[Anonymous]

What’s the thought process behind taking a drug that you know is super addictive and can ultimately lead you down a path of destruction? This past summer I had a roommate who was addicted to crack and they relapsed and I just wanted to know what goes through the mind of someone that makes them say fuck it I’ll try meth, heroin, crack etc for the first time.

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My question wasn’t meant to disrespect anyone going through addiction. I’ve dealt with addiction with weed and having sex with multiple random women. I’ve only been In situation once were someone was using it and offered me to use it as well. My question was more so based around if people who going through mental health issues more prone to try it. Most stories I hear about the first time are from people who were in a bad place at the time not when everything was working out great for them.

[sage2021]

Well, when a person does something like meth they do it because it makes them feel great.
Meth activates you dopamine center of the brain where your pleasure center of your brain is.
Some people are deficient in dopamine and don't even know it. That may cause them to try things to make them feel better like drugs because their brain signals are telling them that they are deficient in different brain chemistry like dopamine and serotonin and neuropenefrin.

[MissTrix]

Often lack of things emotional pain addiction to smaller drugs... Needing a dream no direction

a lot leads to it with little way back

[Astarlessnightsky]

Alcohol and tobacco pose the same threat of addiction. And most legally and readily available prescribtion drugs as well.

And people try it for various reasons, wondering what it feels like, just because they can, to numb pain, peer preassure, so they can sleep, so they don't need to sleep, preassure to "function" in todays harsh society...

[jennifer_bloom]

My friend says sometimes they are tricked into doing drugs by a dealer who sneaks an addictive substance into their regular weed purchase such as sprinkling meth in some food they do not know has meth on it.

[Agape93]

When you need to feel nothing, and when you don't care if you survive, why not?