What is the most destructive drug to our society??

I am agree with you but also dont forget about porn addiction ,it destroy also very well

It depends on what you mean

Which drug kills you within a few minutes?
Which drug is addictive and will kill you with an overdose?
Which drug will take a decade off your life?
Which drug costs the most in the drug itself, and the healthcare it requires for treatment?

My guess is that sugar shortens the lives of the most people (In the US anyway). But shorten by how long? A few years? A decade?

Smoking causes death, mostly by lung cancer and emphysema. But again, it takes many decades for the effects to be seen.

to me, the most destructive cause of misery and death I think of is the instinctual desire to be a member of a tribe, and accept the beliefs of the tribe without thinking.

Most wars are escalated and fought because of this tribal loyalty. Persecutions of large numbers of people are a result of accepting a defensive belief of a tribal leader.

But, there is no cure. We have behaved this way for all of our evolution. It's hard wired in us.

Frankly, I don't know much about who is addicted to what. But my guess is that alcohol could be the most physically destructive thing that people consume, that isn't against the law.

Does the phrase "Mexican drug wars" ring a bell?

Here's one for free: Mexican drug war.


In the case of Americans killing each other with .50 machineguns over sugar, you may add "American Sugar War" as well.

I'd say big pharma is the most destructive drug to our society they're are tons of people strung out on pain killer medication which contains excessive opioid content such as Percocet/ OxyContin prescribed by doctors leaving the patient with dependency issues and addiction even after being cured .

Way I see it, there are fast & evident blitz drugs like heroin, an' slower burn stuffs like sugah, salt, carbs etc.

But mebbe wilful vs accidental ingestion is a slowah burn ishoo also.

If I wish, I may cut out all heroin, sugah, salt & carbs -- though as Mom points out, I failin' to apply this willpowah to musself regardin' alcohol.

"Have you considered getting a tap fitted to your liver, dear? You could run a bar from the back of one of your little black dresses."

I thinkin' here of microplastics an' othah pollutants ovah which we gaht no direct control as personal imbibers.

As a groop, we consent to sum level of imbibement bcs we hooked on the advantages stuff like plastic & oil-based fuel bring.

But we don't see this as addiction.

Perhaps we should.

So much chemical firepowah crosses our hooman membranes, an' plenty of it has negative effects.

But we can't fix evrythin' usselves.

Actschwlly, the question of myootyoool fluxystuffs is a big ishoo genrly.

Sugar is more of modern U.S. problem. Until companies like Hershey's, Mars, Coca Cola etc. arrived. There were no sweets consumption like now a days. Never been to the Middle East or Asia but doubt they have the same issues. Replacing sugar with High Fructose Corn Syrup is even worse in my book.

Drugs are more destructive on a short term basis to society. Crystal Meth, Heroin & Fentanyl use is increasing all the time around the world. Sadly the US has the most demand.

Agree completely. Scary thing is, the harmful effects of sugar aren't as publicized as other drugs.

If you cut down on added and excess salt and flavor foods with herbs and spices it becomes much easier to cut down on sugar intake and take an intermittent fasting approach to sugar and go at least 12 hours a day with out ingesting sugar foods or beverages.

The problem is spiked insulin all day long . I believe fructose needs to go through the liver like alcohol to be used by the body. So it's not even just sugar it foods with sugars that are not widely available in nature.

There are no drugs for me. There are only different substances, the reception of which has one or another effect. And excessive infatuation entails more serious consequences. This applies, among other things, to any actions (example: professional Sports - wears out the body and reduces life expectancy. Strong mental load - causes psychological diseases that develop into degenerative pathologies of the brain). There are experiments on rats, in which it is proved that "drug addiction" exists in individuals with mental disorders, recognized by an inappropriate life condition that does not satisfy the natural needs of society and the individual.
I will answer your question like this: There are no drugs, there are "Addicts". Recklessness, self-deception, irrationality, low level of self-awareness, low social responsibility, lack of self-discipline, selfishness, etc. - is murderous for all beings. And as far as I know, sugar is a "fast carbohydrate", and they are capable of causing diabetes mellitus, namely insulin receptor resistance. The rest of the "side effects of sugar" listed by you have a different nature of origin, such as poor quality of drinking water, mineral saturation, psychological and physical overload, infectious diseases (for example: heart attack is necrosis of the heart muscle), lack of light physical activity, etc.

Okay, this is an older thread but thought this is worth sharing. Trending on Reddit it looks like this may start to spread throughout the U.S.

"YSK that fentanyl is being cut with xylazine(horse tranquilizer) in Philadelphia (PLEASE READ IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE USE OPIATES)


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YSK that fentanyl is being cut with xylazine(horse tranquilizer) in Philadelphia (PLEASE READ IF YOU OR A LOVED ONE USE OPIATES)
Why YSK Fentanyl is being flooded to the drug scene and it's being cut into everything from cocaine, meth, counterfeit pills, marijuana(natural and synthetic like k2).The most disturbing thing is there adding xylazine now to the fentanyl, particularly in the Philadelphia area.

This is causing necrosis of skin tissue when injected that is leading to infections, near fatal anemia, amputated appendages and limbs, and death. I'm trying to make people more aware that this is happening in and around Philadelphia at a disturbing rate and it is only going to start spreading to more parts of the country.. it's been pretty localized to the Philadelphia region in the past three years, but it is going to expand to the rest of the United States.

This is just a warning to anyone who uses or knows anyone that uses opiates, heroin, fentanyl. I'm a recovering addict and have first hand experience of xylazine almost killing me due to infection and necrosis of my skin and muscle tissue to the point that my bone was exposed. My fiancé also died from a blood infection as a result of the xylazine causing an abscess and the infection went into her blood and died within three days of getting the abscess. Please be safe everyone!

Edit: Here's what my leg looks like after three months healing with bandages off with todays date and time with my suboxone script for all the trolls out there who want to try to dismiss me

https://imgur.com/a/297w534

This is just terrible. Thanks for sharing and it is quite horrifying what this drug can do

The use of racially derisive language, actions, or other forms of communication in order to set people against each other.

Race-baiting.

At least sugar feels good.

Hmmm ... I'd argue they'd "pale in comparison" because quantitively comparing a way much larger dataset (sugar users worldwide) against a much smaller dataset (heroin users worldwide, for example) is likely to generate significant error margins from results of quantitative analytics ...

That's because on one hand, you have a way much bigger diversity of people with much higher usage frequency (sugar users worldwide).
• So even if you normalize your target data points from each dataset, I'd say what you'd get is an imbalanced, biased set of comparative analytics ...

Though my guess, from anecdotal evidence, is alcohol.
• Almost everybody I meet has a handful of stories about their own experience and others they know (or they've come to know from media) regarding stupid things that they ended up doing. Which they wouldn't do when sober.

It's not everyone that can afford high profile drugs, it's why I don't even worry about them that much. In the end, it's all about about how users are addicted to any drugs.

Alcoholic addiction is a very big problem in our society today. It's wrecked a lot families in ways they can never be the same again. My cousin's parents had to as a result of his father's addiction.

Sugar isn't a drug, but the effect which it has on human's body is similar to drugs. Increase of dopamine production is considered to be the most distinguishing trait of drugs, and actually sugar has it as well. Sugar destructs the normal insulin production in the human's organism, however it doesn't mean that people have to refuse consuming sugar.

It's impossible, because all the food and meal which you have daily, even if they are super-puper sugar-free make your oganism to produce insulin after you have finished eating. I don't urge to refuse eating, no, I just want to clarify that people can eat whatever they want - the main here is to decrease t he amount of "pure' sugar - sweeties, cakes, pancakes with syrup and somethigng like that. Substitute with the fruit. It's much healthier anyway.

I don't think I would compare that to sugar or caffeine or nicotine. Seems to me the easier life becomes...the more ways people find to screw it up.

Alcohol beat out such heavy hitters as cocaine, LSD, heroine, and tobacco.

In other words, no....



Why would I think about that? If they bought the food they 'wasted', more power to them for trying something new.

Claude.

It doesn't matter the individual's intelligence. As I said it's the species as a whole. Sugar is just an example of us not being very intelligent on a collective scale.

Nature packages sugar with high amounts of fiber and minerals that is why the is a dopamine response. Humans take the sugar out we get the problems we have.

Happily, I never tried any opiates long enough to have a danger of getting addicted, and ONLY took as prescribed. And I never took anything recreationally. And so I have no first hand experience of these, but videos of people in areas where so many are supposedly on Fentanyl are like something out of scifi. The people are like short circuited robots operating at the lowest possible power level.

In such a case, they should try to cut off the whole area cold turkey. Hopefully everyone would recover.

But it would be dumb to just let things continue as they have been, It really helps nobody.

Sugar IS bad. If, as a little kid, I knew how they made it, I probably never would have taken table sugar. But at least it doesn't do what the other drugs do.

Social Media is most destructive drug now-a-days...