Why Are Drugs and Alcohol Talked About Separately?

[Dogpound2020]

Alcohol is a drug is it not? I’ll never get this sort of conversation. Just asking as a fellow fan of both…

 

[Dogpound2020]

Alcohol is a drug is it not? I’ll never get this sort of conversation. Just asking as a fellow fan of both…

Oops, don’t do drugs kids, lol. Please move to the Lounge area mods?

 

[MuffinsAppletree]

My track record proves alcohol is not my friend.

I never tried hard drugs bc I know i would lose everything.

 

[loisestrad]

Are you high, or are you drunk?

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Alcohol is a drug is it not? I’ll never get this sort of conversation. Just asking as a fellow fan of both…

In a general context, or a sporting context?

 

[Buff]

Alcohol is the devil.

Quit weed a month ago, and my health has gone to complete shit physically and mentally from replacing it with booze and cigarettes...

 

[Skarsgard]

Marketing, mainly. It's the same reason people scoff when you acknowledge that caffeine is a drug.

 

[Cooliox]

Ooh we haven’t had a drunken thread in a while.

Anything can be a ‘drug’, TS

It’s just the nature of chemicals to be more physically addictive.

But people who are addicted to food will eat the same way someone uses drugs. Even when the doctor tells them their organs are in trouble, they don’t stop eating fatty oily food. They can’t help themselves. Or sugar… that’s a big one.

A sex addict can never be in a healthy relationship. They’re always just try to get more and more of sex. It’s not the way that normal people desire sex. They usually need some level of extremity to even feel anything… or multiple levels of risk or excitement. They will never feel a wholesome relationship normally.

We have people who are addicted to love. To gaming. To social media.
To steroids and exercise… that’s one too. Doctor says you need to stop juicing or stop exercising otherwise you will end up in a wheelchair… but you can’t stop.


The human mind can make a drug out of anything. It’s just that some things like hard drugs have more of a physical affect than others.


Like me: I’m addicted to posting on sherdog. I have to log in everyday. I’m beyond saving

 

[Cooliox]

Alcohol is the devil.

Quit weed a month ago, and my health has gone to complete shit physically and mentally from replacing it with booze and cigarettes...

Keep fighting homie.

 

[Dana's Conscience]

The main thing that differentiates the two is that alcohol can be enjoyed as a beverage with limited effects. In fact, this is the way that it is encouraged to be enjoyed (please drink responsibly). When it comes to other drugs, it's effect and effect only.

For reference, I'm a recovering drug addict/alcoholic, so I know very little about the above.

 

[loisestrad]

Love is my drug. Sure, I drink a lot and I smoke a lot, but what causes me the most pain?

Love.

And here's the song.

 

[Prologue]

 

[nostradumbass]

Legality. One is casual or social that you can get from the grocery store and not get drunk every time you have it, drugs have to be bought illegally and are only to get high. The are connected again if the person drinking is doing it like other drugs and getting drunk every time, with drug addict/alcoholic being one kind of group. The same way prescription medications are also "drugs", but is really only considered "doing drugs" when abused or taken outside their prescribed use.

 

[humperdoo]

It was illegal to drink alcohol in 1920s afaik. it is a drug.

 

[jeff7b9]

Drugs are awesome.
I had so many amazing drug experiences.

It is annoying that so many other people suck at handling their drugs and tarnish the whole thing.

 

[Fedorgasm]

Because when one chick says, "hey come back to my place and do drugs with me" and another chick says, "hey come back to my place and drink with me" the risk profiles of each girl are different.

 

[blaseblase]

Alcohol is an engrained part of culture, has been for hundreds of years, whereas drugs are a relatively more recent thing. So it gets treated differently.

 

[Mike]

Because I gotta buy em at different places

 

[Gutter Chris]

Alcohol is a drug is it not? I’ll never get this sort of conversation. Just asking as a fellow fan of both…

I think it's because alcohol has been part of society for a long time , is socially acceptable and legal and a lot of people like to drink.

They don't see it like heroin because heroin is for losers and they ignore the fact it might be even more destructive.


I don't see alcohol and drugs separately and think of them the same way.


You'll see it on this very board with guys who love to drink acting superior to drug users and refusing to see themselves as such

 

[Belaya Smert]

Social acceptability is a helluva a drug