A post I wrote a while ago showing what a "drug advice page" would look if love was a drug:
Love.
Street names: romance, sex, with someone
Effects:
Users first experience absolute euphoria, a sense of well being and a significantly increased sex drive.
Very often users describe becoming "loved up" which consists of constantly thinking about a specific person (in rare cases, objects) and becoming obsessed with them so much that the user talks about them all the time, mostly, to the annoyance of friends and family, this first experience is often referred to as "the honeymoon period" and often lasts between 1 week up to several months after which the effects decrease to around half their level and may peak and drop during the lifetime of the drug (between a few hours to a lifetime).
Long term use may result in: marriage, pregnancy, happiness and a feeling of being emotionally attached.
Risks:
The vast majority of users experience negative effects when the drug wears off, such effects are: short term depression (sometimes becoming chronic), a sense of loneliness, isolation, a feeling of never finding another dose, a feeling of hate and anger towards the person thought about at the beginning of the dose and lethargy.
The come down of love is often referred to as "being dumped" or "having a broken heart" users may feel these effects anything from a few weeks to a lifetime.
Love is also addictive, users may continue to remain in the bond created at the beginning despite the drug having very few positive effects and many negative effects. If love is withdrawn, users often panic and rush about to find another source of love with a new "partner" before the withdrawal kicks in, they may also have sex with a lot of people, this is called "rebounding"
How is it taken:
Love is almost always taken with another person to allow the "attachment" of love to form, it can be taken emotionally and visually, it can also be taken orally. sometimes when the user takes love on their own they will only experience mainly negitive effects, mainly feeling undesirable or "unloved" this is discribed as "infactuation"
Information:
A very few amount of people never experience the negative after effects of love this is referred to as "being childhood sweethearts".
Many deaths have resulted as a direct and indirect effect of taking love including suicides and mass murders.
Many users say that the effects aren't so great after the first use and no amount of love can bring the user back the the first levels of effects.
Price:
Love is free if you know where to look, love which is brought is described as being weak and short lived.
The law:
Love is a legal drug in the U.K although complicated legality issues surround "bought" love.
