Poor people do meth, executives do cocaine. But the drug of the future is something else entirely, says therapist
Our society treats addictive substances hypocritically. Consider how differently we treat cocaine and meth. They are very similar, only one is seen as the drug of successful people and the other as the drug of junkies. But alongside that are 900,000 risky alcohol users and an equally large group of people who abuse drugs. Josef Šedivý, head of the Sananim Drug Information Centre, points out that illegal drugs are much less of a problem in the Czech Republic than the readily available and socially tolerated alcohol or drugs that many doctors routinely prescribe to patients.