Comment on This is your brain on drugs

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• homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t consider pharmaceuticals “drugs”. I tend to draw a line between medication and recreation.

  but that’s just my opinion

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  • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is the line you draw based on the intent of the user or the intent of the provider?

    Like, for instance, if someone with ADHD uses caffeine to help them focus better, is that medication? Or, if someone tries a hallucinogen with the intention of opening their mind, is that medication?

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The intent of the provider is irrelevant

      For black market hormones, that’s HRT and is obviously medical. i’m not sure I would call the performance-enhancing athlete recreational because they’re not doing it to get high. That’s also medical, but shitty medicine. like I said, it’s not about the source, it’s about the usage.

      With your caffeine example, that’s clearly medication. Using a hallucinogen in that manner? That sounds recreational to me. although psilocybin is in the experimental and pre-clinical stages for being used to treat epilepsy, which would clearly be medical.

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Psilocybin is also being trialed for certain mental conditions like PTSD.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, secret third thing, yes, secret fourth thing.

      Psychedelics for discovery are different from ones for fun and also from ones for dealing with ptsd or addiction

      That said, doping to cheat is maybe recreation, but doping for body modification without attempting to resolve any issues is far closer to a piercing or tattoo than a line of coke imo.

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      • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        All I was trying to do is draw a very basic distinction between a medical or scientific or clinical pursuit of taking chemicals, and a more “other“ pursuit, which could cover a lot of the more specific examples you have sided, but I think you at least understand the point I was trying to make

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  • NotSteve_@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, you can get pharmaceutical heroin and pharmaceutical meth and while you’re not going to experience quite the same levels of harm since it’d be pure and clean, the addiction will still deal the same damage as the street stuff

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    • homes@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not really referring to the source, but the use of it. Like, I’m getting medical cannabis here in Florida, and my usage of it is split between medical and recreational. And I’m honest with myself enough to be able to tell which is which.

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      • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If the recreational use improves your mood, isn’t that a medical purpose too?

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