“Attempting to escape from reality has another name.....insanity.”
If that were true, then we’d all be insane. Every person who drinks a beer, plays a video game, reads a work of fiction, goes to the movies, plays recreational sports, goes on a camping trip, etc. All of them, insane, according to your definition.
Or, maybe, it’s instead true that every human being needs some escape from reality, in part to maintain their sanity, and drugs are just an unhealthy one to choose.
I shall start calling you Gene, after Gene Kelly, the dancer. Gene, you can dance around the issue all you want, but it’s still there. People using illegal drugs to escape reality are cowards. Attempting to escape reality, Gene, has another name.....insanity. If you don’t like what you see when you look in the mirror, then make a change. The rest of us see you for what you are.
Gene Gene Gene.....going camping is the same as snorting coke? Maybe in your world, Gene. If you can confuse entertainment and competition with using illegal drugs, then go give a heroin addict a book. That must be what they want.