I remember two videos that might be helpful on addiction and life happiness I found on you-tube:
How to Be Happy, Reverse Bucket Lists, The Four False Idols, and More — Arthur C. Brooks
Controlling Your Dopamine For Motivation, Focus & Satisfaction | Huberman Lab Podcast #39
On the second video I still remember Huberman talking about how MPTP paralyzed people by destroying their dopamine producing organs. At this point you could not pay me to take a drug that isn’t going to save my life outright.
I am lucky I have never done any drugs in my life, I would probably be dead now if I did. I tend to put drugs somewhere around radiation poisoning on my ‘how I do not want to die’ list.
I really do not think drugs should be in a person’s body unless absolutely necessary (legal or not). But for an addict I understand it is not so much of a choice, as a different struggle entirely.
Right now I am concerned about how the drug trade in the west is going to end. What I learned about the drug trade is rumor level stuff, so take it with a grain of salt, but here is what I pieced together:
Drug proliferation to the best of my knowledge did not really start until military units were sent out with powerful pain killers during WW1 and brought back a population market of potential addicts. The time period where illegal street drugs became a family household name, is relatively small compared to the overall history of modern nations.
During the WW2 era the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek would proliferate drugs into Chinese society in order to fund his war aims to take over mainland china from the CCP. After WW2 the ‘western actors’ would copy this strategy on both a domestic and global level to help reign in funding for their own war efforts in Vietnam among others, aimed at the defeat and isolation of the USSR during the cold war.
Since then it has become it’s own industry as a aims of making profits on the international mob. The Mexican cartels (trafficking in the USA) are just a small cog in a much larger machine. I know that it could all be ended very quickly by the people in power here in the west if they choose to do so. And since they have not, then I am inclined to think that they must profit from the drug trade, if merely indirectly.
The reason I am concerned with how it is going to end is because of what the CCP did to end it’s own drug epidemic through the use of brutality. There must be way better ways to end a drug epidemic than that, but so far I have not seen any real answers to this mess from anyone in power so far. Drug proliferation in a productive society cannot persist, and as the death count rises I wonder how this is going to change.
