This is one of the lies told by drug users. No one ever self-medicates with illegal drugs. Recreational drugs are only taken for the pleasure they induce. There's never another reason. Any claim otherwise is a lie to absolve responsibility. One key characteristic of drug users is they are notorious liars. If I know someone that tells lies I immediately suspect they are a drug user. I have never known a drug user to be a truthful person. If you keep up with the self-medication lie I suspect you are an illegal drug user yourself.
Woh, hold on there. You switched from "illegal drugs" to "recreational drugs" in two sentences. There are several if not many "drugs" that can be used properly as medicine and used in other ways just to "get high". Morphine, Valum, Codein, Ritalin, ...... the list goes on.
Many drugs, as Im sure you realize, are "presecription only". Many are pain killers. Without a prescription, you can't legally have them. So, they would be "illegal drugs" for a non-prescription holder. So, are you saying that people who "illegally" get, say, vicadin, are doing it for the high, and not to kill pain, and if they say otherwise, they are a liar? Sorry, you are just plain wrong.
And, there are thousands of people who only smoked marijuana when there were symptons associated with cancer, aid or glaucoma. I guess they are all liars too?
One key characteristic of drug users is they are notorious liars.
Many drug addicts are liars. It goes no further than that.
If I know someone that tells lies I immediately suspect they are a drug user.
Maybe you are the one who needs to be on medication for paranoia. Just my unprofessional opinion.
I have never known a drug user to be a truthful person.
Maybe its all about the crowd you hang out with.
If you keep up with the self-medication lie I suspect you are an illegal drug user yourself.
Your paranoia is showing again. I suggest you seek help.
Your conclusion does not follow from your premise. "Pleasure" includes removal of pain (psychological or otherwise).