Are many recreational drug users responsible about what they put in their bodies? Yes. The long lived in particular.

Do some recreational drug users find it a point of pride about how recklessly indifferent they can be about what they put in their bodies? Also yes.

There is also definitely a (small) subset of recreational drug users which actively seek out the worst possible things they can do to their bodies. The drug world version of [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugchasing].

I’m generally indifferent to recreational drug use, and have friends who are avidly in the first two categories. I’ve known people in the last, but found them too dangerous (and heartbreaking) to be around. Let’s not pretend they don’t exist.