Or better yet don't go to a doctor at all.  I will only go to hospital if I feel like I'm dying and last time that happened was about 5 years ago when I came down with appendicitis.

That makes sense then, my bad. 

How do you address drug addictions, homelessness, health degradation, poverty that comes with drug usage?

Well one could start with sending people to rehab instead of jail.  I have a view that people should be allowed to do anything to their bodies in their own home/apt.  If you go out into public and start affecting other people (drunk driving, stealing, etc) then you should be punished.  So if a crackhead gets caught stealing then perhaps send him to rehab first then make him serve community service or something like that.  Jail should be reserved for the people that deserve it most (murders, rapist, molestors).  Something is wrong if you are letting out rapist and molestors because the jail/prison system is filled with nonviolent drug users.

We are running into some problems here. If drugs are legalized there is no justification to send someone anywhere, neither prison nor rehab. Some addicts might go into rehab willingly, what about the remaining?

Would you move into an area when you see drug addicts on the streets and people selling drugs at the corners (assuming it would be legal)?

Well if you legalise drugs I would assume the middle class will find their healthcare and their rehab, when they vollunteer. The rst of the junks will live on the social systems a government has to offer. Perhaps we should introduce a base income for them while we are at it. Sponsored  by the working middle class of course.Because obviously a crackhead won't have a job. I wouldn't move their obviously since I don't want to be near those people. So the only way you can legalize drugs, drug use and be totally fine with drug addiction is to accept the price.

The real question is how much are you prepared to pay for the lower social class of society. Besides doesn't the US arrest mostly drug dealers instead of junks.

I skimmed over some statistics and the results are quite mixed. Portugal did not decriminalize hard drugs, merely reduced sentences for small possessions (self consumption), not dealing of drugs. HIV infection rates in Portugal are still 5x times above EU-average 16 years after the new laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/whats-most-dangerous-drug-world-according-science/

Just want to show you guys how dangerous alcohol can be, even though it's seen as more safe and normal than other drugs.

Just because one drug is dangerous though... Doesn't make another drug safe.

I've never done illicit drugs in my life, but have had to stop taking some pretty powerful meds that I was put on to treat OCD, so I have experienced withdrawal. I used to drink alcohol to excess and compulsively self-harm also, and I have managed to limit the former to a manageable level and eliminate the latter.

In my experience, such reward-seeking behaviour was usually the result of me trying to fill a hole in my life; I felt crap about myself, so I looked for a dopamine hit to soothe the pain, whether that was a bottle of vodka or a scalpel. What worked for me to fill this role with a healthier alternative, like exercise.