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/^t/People use drugs because they need to. Drugs can be the door to a different dimension, to another world. A world of fantasies and dreams. People take drugs in order to forget about their failures and lack of success. They help them create their own reality. Thanks to drugs, people see themselves as powerful, successful and desired. Drug users need this feeling desperately. Drugs alter their perception of reality. They do not feel rejected anymore. Chemicals become the substitute for everything; family, friends, feelings of love and care. People use them because they need attention and they do not find it in the real world. Therefore, they create images and visions of their own, happy and perfect realities. It becomes their way of living until the moment comes, when there is nothing else left, apart from the need to take another dose of a drug and relief the pain. To stay alive.