"why do people use drugs, anyway? don't they know what could happen to them?"

In my job I get asked this question a lot. I have a hard time coming up with an answer that will satisfy anyone.

I just finished a book called Truth and Beauty. It is a memoir of a friendship between two women. In it I found the best explanation I have ever seen. I'm thinking of having it printed up on a business card.

Lucy was having the great love affair she had always dreamed of. It was dangerous and rocky, violently depleting, but in the few minutes that it was sweet it made her feel all the encompassing heat of love.