DO you agree or disagree: there is really no difference between a psychiatrist and a drug dealer?

Question

there is really no difference between a psychiatrist and a drug dealer because one has license and the other one just doesn't. Let me explain, some of the medication people take for emotional stability just turns them into zombies. Its not natural, its all chemical and it never solves the root of the problem, it just covers up the symptoms.

Those meds are more harmful than weed, LSD, shrooms...which are more natural, yes sometimes have bad side effects, but so rarely. LSD is not addictive because the body adjusts to it and shrooms is out of your system quickly and has no negative side effects at all.

Agree or disagree?

Answer 1

I have to agree with you, that the psychiatrists medications are sometimes more severe than a drug dealer's drugs.

But, that is not all of the case.

Take crystal methamphetamine for example.  It is the worst drug out there, legal or illegal.  Meth is a blight on our civilization, and people can not stop. Psychiatrists do not have anything as harmful and deadly as Meth at their disposal.  Yes, they can prescribe Adderall, but Meth is much worse.

I think the main difference between a psychiatrist and drug dealer, is the code of ethics.  Psychiatrist is going to analyze the patient, and determine if it would be safe for them to use this drug, citing all sorts of factors such as suicide risk, side effects, and deadly combinations with other drugs.

Drug dealers are no where near as careful.  Many times, they can't even be positive what is in a drug, because of the cut, or bad supply.

Legal drugs from a psychiatrist are much safer than illegal, especially the fact that you are not dealing with the criminal underworld.

Yes, weed is less harmful than most anti-psychotics prescribed, but that is why Proposition 215 has practically made weed legal in California.  

California has dispensaries where you can go and purchase marijuana from a store.  You enter the store, and can decide which strain you want, and you have flavor choices and everything, it is like a kid in a candy store.

Your statement that LSD is not addictive, the fact that someone can get stuck on an LSD trip for the rest of their lives does make LSD a dangerous drug.  And LSD is just like the chemicals that you say you don't like from the prescribed medicines.  If you are going to preach natural, then do not include LSD, it just isn't natural at all like pot and shrooms.

Good Luck

Good Luck

Answer 2

The drug dealer (I like to call them 'undocumented pharmacists') doesn't have a multi-billion dollar lobby in Washington helping them push their wares onto children.  They have to do it all by themselves.

Answer 3

Unfortunately I agree.  But it doesn't have to be that way, psychiatrist are just far too liberal about prescribing medicine.  this is the story of millions of people around the world.  

Person has crappy life.

Person becomes depressed due to crappy life

Person visits psychiatrist.

Person gets drugs instead of help sorting out crappy life. . .

Person becomes dependent on drugs

Psychiatrist buys another jag

Depression drugs should be for people with chemical imbalance, psychiatrists should try and help people sort out their problems, and not just throw drugs at them.

Answer 4

I'll tell you, not much. except the drug dealer makes more money. The drugs ARE very expensive, but most of them don't turn you into a zombie- I've been playing this game for 15 years. Once they gave me a drug to counteract a drug, and I ended up telling the cops that I didn't know who the president was, but I didn't like him. Off to the loony bin.

Yes, the "natural" drugs are easier on the system, but they don't' contain the ingredients to stop/start synapse in the brain. Pot is not going to bring me up from a suicidal depression, nor is a mushroom going to control mania. It's the function of the constituents that give the drug its power.

Lots of us wish you were right, makes life simpler all the way around. But I had to go through 15 drugs to find the right combination. It's not a one-stop shop!