I believe this is probably the most popular reason for useing intoxicating substances, at least in Western societies. This post has to do with the motive of recreation.
Motivation by Recreation: this category can be broken down into two classes, functional and aesthetic. The driving purpose behind this person’s desire to consume certain substances may be functional—for reasons of celebration or even purely for one's own physical pleasure, providing a means to "feel good" or drunkenness. Still others find that certain substances provide an aesthetic pleasure as a food product harmonizing with and complimenting a meal. While the aesthetic classification is probably limited to beers, wines, certain liquors, cigars and the like, the functional category could even extend to, and most likely is, one’s motivation to use drugs that are found on the United States list of Schedule I controlled substances, of which chemicals it is the general medical and psychiatric opinion that their potential for abuse is very high.
In the next post in this series I plan to discuss the use of intoxicating substances motivated by medical reasons.
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