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/^t/It is not easy to answer the question why people use drugs. Perhaps it is not even possible. Drug users and drug addicts give many different reasons. Most of them are just excuses for weakness and cowardice. Disability to face the reality, to deal with one's problems is the best and most often used excuse. People say they use drugs because they want to. The important question is why they want to. They do drugs because they want to forget about the reality; not interesting, not exciting enough. Moreover, they say they use drugs because they need to. They need to create illusions about themselves because they are not able to cope with who they are. People say they use drugs because they have to. They have to because they became addicted. They lost this feeling of freedom they had at the beginning. They lost the illusion of freedom they had later. Now they know they are slaves of drugs.