It is hard to be human. For countless eons, people have medicated their humanity with various substances unique to their place and time in world geography and world history.
Amber Johnson
The word “substance” is loaded, and it can be loaded with so many different things.
There are legal substances: alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, marijuana, prescription opioids, food. People are legally smoking and eating their way into an early grave.
Then there are the not so legal substances: illicit drugs like cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, nonprescription opioids, meth and fentanyl. Someone who uses cocaine every day will lose between 10-30 years of their lives.
It could be argued that most humans are users and addicts; where they fall on the spectrum of addiction, and to what substance they use, is unique to each person.
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