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I just want to address something that when you are surfing through the opinion part of teenink it means that the articles are opinionated and are about a very specific point of view. The title of my paper is Dear drugs and alcohol (with the world alcohol misspelled because I'm an idiot.) Which means the focus of my paper is drugs and alcohol. It's not labeled The reason why there is suffering in the world is because of drugs. If it were then yes I would be closed minded. But it's not so I wouldn't say I'm closed minded. I'm simply stating one of many things that can bring sadness into people's lives, and yes I know that drugs and alcohol can make people happy as well. I'm speaking abuse here. Not the occasional recreational use of them.

Now onto the rest of you're comment you're very correct, a lot of other things can wreck lives, stripe youth and devastate families. The point of this paper wasn't to say that drugs and alcohol are the only things that do that. Also people don't CHOSE to fall into addiction. It's something that just happens. And yes many people are addicted to caffeine. -However sugar technically doesn't fit under the definition of addiction which is why I left it out.- But caffeine doesn't cause people to steal from loved ones, and you can't overdose on it so you can't really compare that to heroine. Plus I would say if heroine was as easy to come into contact with as caffeine it would be just as addictive. After all they do have some similarities in the effects of wanting more of it right after you've already had some. But heroine messes you up a lot  more than caffeine does. But I agree with you if someone wants to give their lives up for something they will, but most of the time with drugs it's not like they took it their first time and went. "Good now I can become addicted and ruin my life." But the same goes for the people who dedicate their lives to a career. But in that case they normally spend all their time at work to earn money for their family so they can live a good life. Whereas drugs it becomes very self centered. Also about your 'another note' part I agree in a sense. But I want to add that a lot of people fall into addiction because of peer pressure as well. 

Of all the close minded snuff... Dedication to a career can wreck lives, stripe youth and devistate families just as easily. People fall to addiction because its something that dont have; sugar, caffiene, an addiction stronger then heroine with, I don't know, only a world full of abusers out there? If people want to give thier lives up to something, they will. Doesnt always have to be a socailly unacceptable substance, thats just the easiest  option as people always want to be more then what they are. Its not the drug at fault, but man kinds own inheritant nature for creation and destruction.

Another note, theres almost always depression before a drug is used for emotional reasons. Its merely magnified by withdrawl and socail guilt.

If you guys didn't know, Thomas Jefferson was a chronic marijuana smoker and he wrote one of our nations most important documents.

Also, George Washington's number one crop on his plantation at home was marijuana. just saying. i dont support drugs like lsd and heroine but cmon, marijuana is not bad. It makes life more beautiful and the user more calm and peaceful. Maybe it's because i can control myself and am not pathetic enough to let it get to my head, but i don't see a problem with using marijuana or drinking on occasion.

wow this wondrerful but makes me sad for all of those ppl who r addicted to drugs and alchol and ppl how invented these should feel really bad for what they have done to all these ppl it really is sad for all the lives lost and ruined from drugs and alchol     :(

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I understand all of your points, and manke no mistake that i am against drugs, but the fact that alchohol has been grouped in with this makes me side with silevryn. Ive seen drunk people make some pretty amazing art, and they've all managed pretty well for themselves.

Several people in my family own a brewery and i dont like how people always assume in articles like this that beer has the same effects as crack. Maybe thats why i have this opinion, or maybe its because its the truth. either way.