It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
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It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
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Re: It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
#22017. That was before fentanyl and meth onslaught.
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#32017. That was before fentanyl and meth onslaught.
don't think meth or fentanyl changes his hypothesis. if you see the interviews of those in bandos in Baltimore or on the street in Kensington, they have endured trauma their entire lives. Whether it's societal induced trauma like racism, poverty, family trauma, violence, or whatever else. These people are choosing to escape their "cages" with these drugs.
Re: It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
#4Another rehashing of Rat Park, a dubious study which has never replicated. I’m pro legalization, but this isn’t a good angle for arguing that case.
Re: It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
#52017. That was before fentanyl and meth onslaught.
That was well after both, meth by decades, fentanyl by years
Re: It’s not the chemicals that cause addiction (2017)
#62017. That was before fentanyl and meth onslaught.
don't think meth or fentanyl changes his hypothesis. if you see the interviews of those in bandos in Baltimore or on the street in Kensington, they have endured trauma their entire lives. Whether it's societal induced trauma like racism, poverty, family trauma, violence, or whatever else. These people are choosing to escape their "cages" with these drugs.
And yet plenty of people without major life trauma have succumbed to addiction as well.
I have no doubt that traumatic life experiences can exacerbate addiction, make it harder to quit, and/or increase propensity to becoming addicted (maybe even increasing propensity to try hard drugs in the first place). But the notion that the addictiveness of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, etc. is purely a psychosocial phenomenon is at best a fairy tale.
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#7Some articles express a confused position with such clarity that I cannot help but to upvote.
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#8The title should have (2017) at the end
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#10Capitalist Society and Its Consequences?
The drive for ever more productivity and efficiency causes us to eschew things which — on the surface and by measurable metrics — are inefficient, unproductive, and “not good,” but serve incorporeal purposes, like keeping us sane.