Drugs

 Drugs are a quick way to get happiness or joy. Getting "high" as it's called. I just bought a bottle of Tylenol and I took 1,000 mg. I must say it was kind of an agitated experience, but it did add a certain amount of excitement to the routine monotony of my day. 

I don't dabble in drugs, but Tylenol is something I wanted to try because I had enjoyed the way it made my headache go away several months ago. But I have been observing the effects and I think it is a drug.

I am struggling with giving up smoking and I have the patch on me pretty much at all times, at a doctor's recommendation. Taking it off causes me withdrawal symptoms and nervous irritability. But with harm reductions, the idea is to get off the smoking that is causing the damage to my lungs (which are in very bad shape after 24 years of the addictive habit).

Anyway, I guess Tylenol will be my recreational drug, if I have to choose one. Obviously it's better not to do anything but I did try these and I have a bottle, so I will probably continue to do it. The lethal amount is about 80 - 100 tabs I believe, so I guess technically it would be possible to kill myself with this bottle.

Luckily I have some things in my life that are going well so I don't want to do that. Also, it eases the pain a bit in life to take it. I will see if there will be some kind of down period after the effects of the drug wear off. 

I think the main face to a drug addiction is constantly wanting to quit. Nicotine addiction - have you ever met a smoker who wasn't "trying" to quit? I knew someone who was into cocaine a lot and he was constantly talking about wanting to quit. I think most addicts are obsessed with getting off the drug, whether they want to or not.

In my job I am into harm reduction so I think about how people can benefit from alleviating the harm of their substance.