Are You Still Straight Edge if You Take Medicine Tablets?
Question by Nick: are you still straight edge if you take medicine tablets?
BQ- does CM Punk take paracetamol and other tablets because i remember once he came out and said that he doesn’t take any prescribed drugs.
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Answer by Mathieu
Firstly just because one person who describes himself as straight edge does something does not mean it is best for you or that it is straight edge.
The idea of straight edge is of refraining from using recreational drugs, alcohol, typically promiscuous sex, and generally avoid extremes. Basically it came about as a reaction to the excess common in hardcore punks or whatever you want to call it.
Paracetamol is an analgesic with ZERO recreational value and it causes absolutely no psychotropic effects.
A few of the self described straight edge people I have known as friends and patients are in many respects extremists in their own way- not using medication of any kind, eating vegan, not using any psychoactive substances including caffeine, even practicing celibacy. That is a minority of straight edge people.
The basic principals of straight edge do allow people to use prescription medications- including substances of abuse like morphine, oxycodone, amphetamines, benzodiazepines like Valium (diazepam), barbiturates like phenobarbital, and similar drugs. There is no doubt that drugs of abuse have important medical uses and in reality most people don’t abuse their medication. Since straight edge is partly based on not abusing substances there is nothing wrong with taking any medication if it is being used for its therapeutic use alone.
However as I said not all straight edge people believe in or do the same things. Some drink alcohol on occasion in modest amounts (the idea being that in moderation it is fine, when abused it is not) yet many do not. It is also very trendy and en vogue to not use medications and only use “natural things” even though many drugs are natural.
Straight edge is a very interesting concept and belief and the people are very cool most of the time. But getting medical treatment for a real problem has nothing to do with overindulging, or being part of a counterculture to snorting cocaine off a stripper. Taking morphine because of pain so bad you could not even walk is not the opposite of shooting heroin.
So I see absolutely zero reason why taking medication would stop a person from being straight edge. And in any case does it really matter what other people think or what a label is.
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