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It never ceases to amaze me how much people want to get high.  The BBC has just released data that suggests that the EU, and most especially Britain, have some serious addictions.  The report states that almost 8% of Brits between the ages of 15 and 64 had used cocaine, the highest rate in the EU.  The BBC article states that:

The figures suggested 11.2% of Britons aged 15-24, and 12.7% of those aged between 15-34, had taken cocaine.

An estimated 12 million EU citizens aged 15-64 had taken cocaine at some point, 11 million had used amphetamines and 9.5 million had taken ecstasy.

I suggest reading the full article if you want to be weighed down by the rest of the stats.  What the article doesn’t explain is why Britain has lead the EU in cocaine abuse 5 years running.  Great Britain has had a good deal of economic prosperity since the 1980s and I am left to wonder if recreational drug use stems out of an era of “good feelings,” similar to the high life Hollywood drug scene.

So why does drug use not decline as people become wealthy?  I have heard one explanation that trumps all others, it was forwarded by Rabbi Harold Kushner.  Kushner said, in essence, that as people become wealthy and realize that money did not make them happy that they needed to turn to externals to bring them joy.  Drugs are without a doubt one of those externals.  Drug rehabilitation, in this way, is as much a spiritual quest as it is a physical one.

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