Why Do We Take Drugs?
Current public concern, bordering on panic, over the drug problem has stimulated a revival of the philosophy of conjecture relative to man’s propensity for drugs. Messern recently added soma new thoughts to an old hypothesis” to explain why men (and women) take drugs. According to him, the present drug problem is a part of the “end of a myth” or the end of a cultural era. The “age of reason and enlightment” which brought capitalism, music, art, and science, especially science, has become “overripe”; the goals have been achieved. Affluence is an important part of the achievement and is also the shared historical experience of the age group who seek to “cop out.” Their subjective experience of the successful economic is that the project is completed. Pass a urine test