Painkiller Addiction: Individuals With Addiction Issues Often Have Difficulty Kicking the Habit.?
Question by madonna: Individuals with addiction issues often have difficulty kicking the habit.?
Individuals with addiction issues often have difficulty kicking the habit. This is especially true of stimulants. Discuss why you think this phenomenon exists and what you might suggest as potential options not already being used.
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Addiction is based in your biology…
“Addiction” is defined not by the frequency or quantity used but the inability to stop using/stop preoccupying in the face of mounting negative consequences.
If you lack the genetics for Addiction, you can become physically dependant upon a substance and suffer the withdrawal syndrome, but after it’s out of yours system you won’t have a profound preoccupation to go out and score again…
Stimulants in general do great physical damage to the brain… It causes psychoses and delusions… When you’re not in your right mind, it’s hard to convince someone to quit doing what they are biologically compelled to do.
Stimulant addiction usually follows Marijuana Addiction. The Weed stops working after a while, starts causing depression, and then they use the speed because it stimulates similar reactions in the brain as the weed while being far far far more neurotoxic.
The bible thumping fu*ktard below has it all wrong… It isn’t psychological… There is no such thing as psychological addiction, just biological addiction due to brain biology. Alterations in the Gaba A receptors in the brain, etc.
Personally, as the child of an opiate addict/alcoholic, I feel that addicts should be given 2 chances to learn to take direction and succeed in their treatment or be euthanized the way that a rabid dog is euthanized as a danger to society at large. Addicts do nothing but harm to their friends, coworkers, the welfare system, and most importantly THEIR CHILDREN.
An intoxicated parent is an abandoning and abusive parent, period. It alters brain development of the child and causes them to see emotionally unavailable addicts as the template for what a mate should be, causing them to seek out abusive partners or making them into victimizers, especially if their own addiction biology gets activated along the way.
For the safety and health of the species, addicts should not be allowed to pass along their horrible biology and perpetuate the generational transmission of trauma onto the next generation.
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