some peple have addictive tendencies
most of my mates take coke when they are out
but at no other times
the people you are mixing with don't represent the majority
some people can have one alcoholic drink which begins a downward spiral from that
those same people can have one line of coke and begin that same journey
life is about balance if you can party sometimes without it affecting your life do it
if you cant dont
Oh I agree, I cant party at all so I dont.
However, my coke friends were all upstanding working guys.. some engineers, lots of blue collar guys... all good dudes that did it socially.
Fast forward 10 years, and 2 are still doing coke, hardcore addicts. the others, only 2 actually quit and kept a normal life. 4 went broke and 2 of them got divorced and lost their childred. 2 went bankrupt and lost their homes. 3 of us wound up going onto harder stuff.
So out of ~15-20 dudes, only 2 actually could do it socially and stopped when it got bad. Everyone else crashed and burned to varying degrees.
As I was saying, coke takes LONGER to get people into trouble than the harder stuff. But it WILL get to far more people than it seems it will in the short run.