Today there are millions of opportunities for self-realization. Write, draw, compose, play, create, sing and dance. Take giant steps up the career ladder, try yourself in different fields of activity and learn everything new, start a family and raise smart and healthy children.
What pushes people to take a step towards drugs? Loneliness? Boredom? Lack of emotions? Desire for new feelings, sensations? It seems to me that only when, having gone through all the stages and made all possible attempts at the possibilities described above, you suffer a fatal failure, can the thought appear... Although this path is noticeably easier and objectively faster. But it also ends much faster, and is much more frightening.
Be human, be yourself and start with love to be able to go through all those possibilities and even more!