Talk:Recreational drug use

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Change article name to Intoxicative drug use?

Does the current article name represent a false distinction between medicine and recreation
created by an anti-intoxication movement which characterizes – demonises - intoxicative drug use as drug abuse?

Should we believe that medicines only exists because there are medical professionals who prescribe them
which seems to be the implication of modern use of the expression drug abuse?

Would the article be better placed under Intoxicative drug use?

Laurel Bush (talk) 11:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, as defined in the first sentence of the article, the concept of taking a drug for recreational purposes is a clearly intentional on the user's part even if the substance used is prescribed by a physician. To me, "intoxicative" is much more difficult to define, as substances which are ingested as medical necessity may also come with side effects which alter the mind or body, which are in no way desired on the user's part. Boogerpatrol (talk) 13:45, 15 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks
Perhaps the self-medication article is what I should be looking at
It seems to have a lot of professional medical bias
Laurel Bush (talk) 15:45, 20 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think that all these terms are biased and subjective: recreational, responsible, intoxicative, toxic, medicinal, drug abuse. By creating this article, WP editors seem to be trying to draw boundaries between good and bad, healthy and unhealthy, helpful and unhelpful, spontaneous and ritualistic, and innocuous and anti-social. However, an encyclopedia should be as objective as possible, so why don't we combine this article with the negative opinions all together in an article "Psycho-active drug use"? Korky Day (talk)

Recreational and responsible drug use puzzle

I am puzzled by the way the Definition section refers to Responsible drug use as the main article

Does this mean that responsible and recreational use are the same thing and, therefore, we should have one article, not two, or that recreational drug use is necessarily responsible and, therefore, a subset of responsible drug use, or what?

Laurel Bush (talk) 09:25, 21 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed the section title
Laurel Bush (talk) 15:12, 27 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]