Most People With "addiction" Simply Grow Out Of It

haidut

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Another piece in the puzzle suggesting that "addiction" is nothing more than adaptive behavior when the organism is under stress. Once the stressor is gone, most organisms stop the behavior. Of course, this is never publicized in the mainstream press, which trumpets the latest drug developments for opiate or alcohol "addictions". Perfectly in line with the "Rat Park" experiment findings.

http://www.alternet.org/drugs/most-peop ... s=og.likes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

"...He told the Canadian Senate in 2001 that prior experiments in which laboratory rats were kept isolated in cramped metal cages, tethered to a self-injection apparatus, show only that "severely distressed animals, like severely distressed people, will relieve their distress pharmacologically if they can."
 

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Very interesting.
It might be hard for people to grow out of addictions
if their stessors remain constant though--
as in the case of a constant stress from wrong diet or nutritional deficiency.

Then, if a stress from food/nutrition
is self-medicated with, say, alcohol or nicotine...
then those self-medications could become stressors in themselves.

Thus, not always easy to grow out of willy-nilly.
 
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gretchen

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Isn't that really the truth. But what about smoking? Most smokers are seriously addicted and can't quit without real effort or help.
 
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