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| A deeply-embedded puritan ethic seems to affect the response to drugs in Western societies. To use a drug for pleasure is taboo, yet to use a drug to relieve pain is acceptable. In reality there is no | |
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| sharp distinction: if someone is 'suffering from depression' and a drug makes him feel happy, it is regarded as a medicine and meets with approval. But if that person is regarded as normal and takes a | |
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| drug that makes him happy, he is indulging in something quite unacceptable. Except, of course, if the drug happens to be nicotine, caffeine, or alcohol. | |
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| Are you going to hit that thing, or what? | |
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