Why do you think many people have such a disdain or hate towards drug users?

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Nightroads · Accepted Answer

Because for 60 years there have been smear campaigns against the people who use them. Anti-drug and alcohol propaganda has been around even longer, just not under the guise of a war.
Take the phrase "war on drug". Who is the enemy? Not the drug itself, drugs can't defend themselves. A simple saying that automatically targets the users, regardless of amount and functionality of the individual.
Many anti-drug programs use over exaggeration and sometime straight up lies to make their point.
My DARE officer in elementary school said that marijuana was the leading cause of drug related deaths in the world.
Even adding in the shootings of individuals with marijuana on them its a stretch to say that.
In my experience the amount of people that use a substance to alter their state heavily outweigh the non users. As i consider alcohol to be one of the substances.
Because of the illegality of other substances, testing and studies are rare and usually paid and skewed by entities that benefit from anti-drug laws and regulations.

Levin · Accepted Answer

I think people are naturally judgmental, for things they don't understand.

I suppose there's also different types of drug users.

From the recreational, to the heroin addicts.

The latter, when you look into their eyes, are a very sad state of affairs. It makes them act very badly at times. 'tis understandable of course.

I feel for them. But sadly, they can't be trusted to make the right choice. They just want that next fix.

Smashingdoozy · Accepted Answer

Well I know that weed is socially ingrained to be bad. It use to be widely used and accepted in society, people wouldn't really smoke it but it was cultivated and used for hemp products and used in a lot of medicine. Then one day during the Mexican revolution Mexican lads were like "oh yea you can smoke it too". Because of the growing fear or xenophobia going on it began circulating thay smoking it would cause a "lust for blood" this is also when it began being called Marihuana (eventually becoming marijuana) the name change was to instill fear of foreignness. After that states began banning it.

So yeah marijuana being illegal was largely due to xenophobia.

Cocaine was also buried in racism in a NYT paper in 1914 it described the effects of cocaine on African Americans as "auditory hallucinations, paranoia, murderous and violent rages, and making African Americans impervious to the effects of bullets" so in fear of "negro cocaine fiend" they made it illegal. It remained largely dormant until the 60s.

Medlife · Accepted Answer

From my perspective, many people know that 1 out of 5 drug users do not want help and use your goodness to their gain, to get the next fix. Many overdose and either are left brain damaged, for the family and med staff to care for them, with debts, broken promises, destroyed lives of family members etc. Or they take their life and leave destruction behind for others to deal with. Or they constantly in and out of trouble that costs tax payers a lot. In and out of rehabs that also costs people a lot and they are simply useless to society. However taking the Hippocratic Oath a physician or a nurse must never refuse help and treatment to such individuals. What we think is irrelevant.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I think productive citizens view drug users as an absolute and total drain on society, as people lacking in any redeeming qualities.

Uannoyme · Answer

I think people have a disdain for drug addicts more so than drug users. If it isn't hurting other people, it's not my business. Drug addicts don't care who they hurt. The only thing they care about is the drug, and they don't care what they have to do to get it.

chocolatesprinkIes · Answer

Cus there’s so many murders associated with it. A guy on my street literally got stabbed to death over drugs a few months ago, they stabbed him over 100 times. The majority of people who take drugs are violent, any money they get goes towards their next fix. Nothing good ever comes from drugs.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

Because people look at extremes when they think about things.

A friend of mine smokes weed, casual use, nicer person I know.

however if you mention a drug user here it’s invariable someone on MDMA / Molly or
. Xanax or Ketamine, then harder Class A. It those smashed of their faces 24/7 we think of.

Jessica405 · Answer

Sorry, but drug users are losers who cannot accept reality. They have to exist under a fog of mental numbness. I can't think of another reason.

Ram0n83 · Answer

Because drug use usually leads people to victimize the rest of society. Junkies need their fixes, and they resort to crime to get more drugs, money to buy drugs, or things that they can exchange for money to buy drugs.

Rob17792 · Answer

with me no i don't i just hate certain ex's who were drug addicts. look myself and my significant other the love of my life are both former and current (to an extent) drug users. they do weed and a few other recreational drugs i used to drink heavily and was hooked on narcotics painkillers. my ex's stole shit from me to buy drugs and stunk up my apartment with cocaine and crack (this was back in 05) and i almost got busted by the cops because of her all those years ago.

GlitchyDisc2590 · Answer

Many people know drug-users. If you're related to one you can see how badly they destroy their own lives, as well as the life's of people close to them. Speaking from personal experience.

Mofunfour20 · Answer

They're socially irresponsible. Stealing grills off back porch mfs

Juxtapose · Answer

They're idiots who probably don't even realize the wine they sip every night is a drug xD

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

They see them as moral degenerates and criminals who will rob them for drug money

Fromdusktilldawn · Answer

Because they choose a desperate self destructive way to escape realities problems (like poverty, grief, personal pressure, mental problems)

Dchrls78104 · Answer

The ones in my country are forever begging people for money and can be extremely disrespectful of self and others and even violent.

beefy40 · Answer

junkies are a waste on society and drugs tend to cause people to become mentally ill. I'm honesty sick of how much damage they do, from robberies, wasting tax money, and child abuse.

bamesjond0069 · Answer

Because... have you ever met one? They are total fuck ups.

Kingofkings1992 · Answer

Because they’re hypocrites. They don’t want people to make judgements about them, but they will pick and choose who they do the same for.

Agape93 · Answer

Lack of empathy and understanding

es20490446e · Answer

Because they are fucking losers. I mean it.

KrakenAttackin · Answer

Because the crime and sloth that surrounds them.

princeofromance · Answer

They do not understand the problem of addiction.

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