Some drugs are legal and some aren't. A lot depends on where you live and what nation states are asserting jurisdiction in your location. Legal drugs are often as dangerous as illegal drugs. Legal prescription drugs can also lead to bad results even when used properly. It must therefore be the responsibility of the individual to make sure that even if a doctor prescribes drugs that it is in their best interest to take them.
Prescription drugs can be over prescribed. Sometimes antidepressants are given when the real solution is to make better lifestyle decisions. Sometimes the antidepressant is just what you need. Sometimes a person after an accident can become addicted to pain killers and doctors will keep giving them to you instead of treating your addiction. One must be intimately involved in the decision to take drugs.
There are also legal drugs like Cigarettes and Alcohol that are as dangerous or more dangerous than most illegal drugs. The drugs are legal because governments are addicted to drug money revenues from cigarette companies who market their poison with the blessings of the state. In the case of alcohol, this drug can be perfectly safe and healthy when used correctly and totally devastating when used incorrectly.
Mixing drugs with driving vehicles or other dangerous equipment is immoral in the Church of Reality because your actions put other people in danger. Realists should not drive drunk. Nor should a Realist drive a car if they are taking other prescription drugs that warn you not to drive. A Realist should always take the safety of themselves and others into account when taking drugs either legally or illegally.
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