I don't want to give you any ideas, but you can stimulate those pleasure (and even creativity) areas without long-term effects:
"In
Larry Niven's
Known Space stories, a
wirehead is someone who has been fitted with an electronic
brain implant (called a "droud" in the stories) to stimulate the
pleasure centers of their brain. In the Known Space universe, wireheading is the most addictive habit known (the only given example of withdrawal is
Louis Wu), and wireheads usually die from neglecting themselves in favor of the ceaseless pleasure. Wireheading is so powerful and easy that it becomes an evolutionary pressure, selecting against that portion of Known Space humanity without self-control. Wireheading need not use an actual brain implant; the pleasure center can be remotely activated by a small device called a "tasp" (important in the
Ringworld novels). In 2006,
The Guardian reported that trials of
Deep brain stimulation with electric current, via wires inserted into the brain, had successfully lifted the mood of depression sufferers.
[1] This is exactly the method used by wireheads in the earlier Niven stories (such as the
'Gil the Arm' story
Death By Ectasy)."
Of course, dying from neglectance may result in a minor case of death.
Also, to the people who take natural drugs over chemical ones: what the fuck? The effects of synthetic drugs can be adjusted (it is not often) and monitored; the same can not be said for natural drugs.
The only reason they are generally less harmful is BECAUSE we tend to not appreciate things that are harmful. Therefore, plants which had similar effects but on a scale that would decimate your neurological functions, have long since been avoided and forgotten.
This doesn't make them (natural drugs) any more healthy.
