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For the record, I've done meth. I found it -not quite as addictive as alcohol and not quite my thing. As an escapist... I think I've tried most mainstream drugs. None of them really got me to where I want to be. Shit I smoked ICE which -really makes your heart race and your voice crack. As far as the thrill and the addictiveness -whoopie.
All in all, I think that the anti-drug culture is as much of a sham as the drug culture is. It seems like some sort of bizarro religion to me. Worse still, the anti-drug culture relies on the drug culture for much of their converts and funding.
Once in 1988 I went to NA. A psychologist found out that I was doing drugs and strongly recommended it. The NA counselor who I met there was chain smoking cigarettes and drinking a HUGE cup of coffee. He was rambling on LIKE he was on drugs (well, besides nicotine and caffeine). It was really a turn off and I didn't go back. Later I fired that psychologist. The next psychologist recommended that I stop doing the harder, more dangerous drugs. So, I stopped. That's it -no drama; just stop.
As far as the scare tactics... There were a number of anti-drug commercials back in 1988. They honestly made me -"the escapist"; wonder what the big deal was. In other words the anti-drug propaganda made me want to try the drugs they were against.
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