Not to sound like an advertisement or anything, but drugs feel really great to use. Not only do you get to forget about all of the problems and stresses that feel way too big for you to ever overcome. You can also feel a great sense of pleasure that just does not go away, for hours on end. And while the effect gets a little bit less intense and a little bit shorter every time (to say nothing of how it gets just a little bit harder to get to every time), it can be very potent with relative ease for years. Drugs are one of the few things in life that just never inspire a reaction of “meh,” because they make everything in the world feel just that much more interesting. Simply put, drugs make you feel way more alive than you ever do with most things in life. But then, those feelings are completely fake.
Back in the real world, the same problems that you can try (always unsuccessfully) to run away from are always going to be there. They never go away on their own (unless they get replaced with even bigger problems), and they never stop. Rather like in a horror movie, closing your eyes does not make the monster go away. And even if you stay as high as a kite all of the time (which is easier and less expensively said than done), sooner or later you are going to come down. And when you do, your problems are going to be even bigger than when you left the ground.
When it comes right down to it, there are two different answers to the question of how great drugs are. On the one hand, they feel unbelievably good. At least, while you are actually high on them. Afterward they tend to feel pretty terrible, especially when a resistance turns into a dependency. And as if that were not a bad enough feeling, all of the real problems in a person’s life (such as their jobs, their families and the law) make it even worse.