You know people who consumes more drugs are from countries who are the most boring?
If you go to a country like Venezuela you wouldn't have time to get and addiction unless you want to really suicide.
Addictions have a huge relationship with boredom. Too much time with nothing interesting to do.
Sorry but I totally disagree , addiction is down to the mind set , nothing to do with boredom and can also be an escape from the total opposite .
An addiction to anything regardless of how silly it may seem to others can cause a huge problem to the person in question .
I've was addicted to nicotine for many many years and believe me my live is very far from boring .
First thing to note there is a different between drug abuse and addiction. Drug abuse is just drug use. Addiction is characterized as a disease - with physiological changes in the brain and associated with loss of choice. There are environmental and genetic factors involved with both
Also, nicotine and caffeine addictions are slightly different then most other drug addictions. Nicotine and Caffiene aren't generally acutely dangerous, particularly powerful, and their addicts don't incur
imminent consequences. Teens don't sell their mom's wedding ring to buy coffee and cigs, but they do for heroin. One of the big reasons people have difficulty quitting cigarettes is there is little impetus... Until you in fact do get cancer.
In my experience working with addicts on a daily basis drug addiction I find usually a maladaptive coping mechanism. For example, a woman with a history childhood sexual abuse is probably not using drugs out of boredom.
If we're talking about using experimenting drugs in the first place, boredom could probably is a major cause. But there many other reasons-also the environment they're raised in- if mom and dad are drug addicts chances are the kids will be. Or they're miserable and looking to escape (side note richer countries tend to be more unhappy).
There is a self fulfilling prophecy though that addicts create a boring life as they're not very ambitious when their life is focused on drugs. Then when they try to get sober one of the biggest struggles is finding a way to entertain themselves as their only pastime has been drug use, especially during developmental ages of adulthood.
I believe drug use correlated to "boring" countries has more to do with drug availability and socioeconomic status. In the US even poor people can "afford" to be drug addicts. If you live in a country with no social services*, a rural area with poor transportation, and you're subsistence farming- chances are you can't "afford" or even access drugs. (*I'm not implying only poor people do drugs, the reality is far from it, just saying you can be un/underemployed and still survive in the US).
There's also a cultural and legal factor. Despite anti-drug education in the US, the media loves to glorify drug use. We generally don't imprision people for decades on a simple possession charge I'm not sure what the drug use stats for Venezuela, but they are truly becoming the world hub of drug trafficking.
If you go slowly enough, you just might avoid them all together.
