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> Drugs are a fact of life, they've been used since the dawn of man and will be used likely until the end of man. They're not going away.

Did you decide on the truth of all of these assumptions by yourself?

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People have been taking intoxicants for longer than they have been writing. Cunieform is about 6000 years old, and beer is at least 9000 years old. Intoxicants are so woven through most of the societies that have dotted human history that it's hard to believe your question is serious.

I'm on my mobile so can't do much linking, but there is evidence of narcotics use dating back throughout recorded history.

Drugs are extremely popular today.

Using the two above, I made the assumption that people will be using narcotics so long as our species continues, unless their effects can be explicitly replicated and induced by technology at some stage in the future, although I wouldn't necessarily say that such an act would not be doing drugs.

Unless, perhaps, we can find a cure for addiction itself.

I mean, diseases have been going on for all of human history, but we've wiped out a few different kinds.

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