Question: `how can some people take drugs for a long time and live beacuse if drugs were fatil you would die straight away i know itb can ruin your insides but why

Roisin Jones answered on 13 Nov 2016:

So the thing about drugs is that they’re dose dependent, which means that they effects change depending on how much you take: if you only take a little bit of a drug every day, theoretically you could take it for a very long time and not die. However, one of the big problems with drugs, especially dangerous ones which are illegal or restricted is that users build up a tolerance to them: that is, they have to take bigger and bigger doses to get the same effect from the drug. This is why most drug users eventually end up taking enough to damage their health or even take a fatal overdose, but why it is possible initially for some users to be able to take the same drug for a long period of time without dying.