Yes, there are cases, where the pain is just too bad to be borne, let alone confronted without help... but I don?t think, those are cases for "soft" drugs, anyway, don?t you think?
And when someone has a festering wound, just giving them amnesiac will only make the wound get worse - what is needed is an operation, to close and heal it, no?
Of course, but like I said, individuals need to learn that lesson the best way they know how, some people need to make the mistake to recognise it for a mistake, others know beforehand that it would be a grave mistake.
I have been offered heroin before, and crack before, never took them because I did not want to become an addict to such hard to get off of drugs. But I did have a moment, after my daughter was born and I was living in a refuge, in which I went on a rampaging suicidal drug bender and did drugs I frowned upon before. It wasn't until I was lying in the hospital with moniters and drips hanging off of me that I saw I did not want to die, that the pain was more tolerable than the total end.
I am fortunate my anger got me through the withdrawls, but I know what drives so many, because I have been there once before.