On 2005-06-06 21:55:00, Antigen wrote:
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On 2005-06-06 13:35:00, GregFL wrote:
The delivery method becomes something the addict becomes compulsively attached to.
Yes, but that's not got anything to do w/ addiction. That's ritual. Totally different type of power, though often people confuse one for the other.Why should we take advice on sex from the Pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't.
--George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born English playwright
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I don't know that I totally agree with that. Somehow when you combine an addictive substance (caffeine-coffee, Nicotene-cigarrettes, Heroin-needles, crack-crack pipe)with a reinforcing delivery method, it SEEMS that oftentimes, the physical addiction almost becomes secondary to the compulsion to repeat over and over the delivery method.
I don't fully understand this, but it is observable.
I myself, cannot, willnot, get my caffeine fix from Coca cola or any other way. Coffee is the only thing that satisfies me.
That is a minor observation. Cigarrettes are a big one. You can double someone's nicotene intake with the patch or even with chewing tobacco, but they will still smoke, even oftentimes when death from cigarrettes is imminent. Crackheads, oftentimes with not enough time to develop an addiction, will bing until all possible sources of income are gone.
What is going on here? I really don't have the answer, but it suggests that there is something more....