Is Drug Addiction a Choice or a Disease? (Re: Drugs Are Super Fun)
Is drug addiction a choice or a disease? (re: Drugs are Super Fun) – This is a response to the following video: www.youtube.com Typical nervousneuron style, taking a 3 min video and making a 15 min response. But the question “Are people who are addicted to drugs weak?” is actually quite complicated. Of course, most of us could reply with our yes or no answer with a personal anecdote. But if we go deeper, new questions arise such as ‘are all behaviours choices?’ and ‘what is a disease?’. For the tl;dnw version, basically addiction is a disease of choice. People may be predisposed to addiction but that does not mean there is nothing they can do about it. There is still personal responsibility, but it is not weakness of character. Compulsions are strong, so resisting them would be more of a strength of character. LINKS: Pleasure unwoven: www.youtube.com Nicotine and gene polymorphism study: www.nature.com I did not go into this specific study into detail because it would require another 15 mins to explain it properly. And it requires knowledge of the pharmacology of nicotinic receptors as well as some brain anatomy (the habenula and the interpeduncular nucleus) and understanding the methods requires knowledge of rat/mouse self administration protocols and neurohistochemistry. Magazine article on the question: www.cosmosmagazine.com Animal models of addiction: www.acnp.org (I only skimmed this so don’t know if it’s the best) Any questions, ask away in the comments.
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Firstly, whatever. Secondly, whatever. Thirdly, I dont give a shit and last (but by no means least) Major Depression? is also a disease, classified as such. Go away
Or is the issue for you is that the? drug addict put him or herself at risk for trying drugs (don’t try drugs = no addiction. Simple). In this case, how do you feel about the same mother who has lung cancer caused by smoking? Is lung cancer no longer a disease if it was caused by llifestyle choices?
Firstly, I do not take a strong stance either way. Seconldy, I would not go up to random people to spout my oppinion. If she were to ask, my short answer ‘I don’t know, but addicts deserve respect and treatment’.
I don’t understand why this is shameful. It it not useful to? compare conditions like that. This is not a competition for who is worst off. Would it be shameful to tell her major depression is a disease too? Science is about being objective, not about people’s feelings.
I would love you to go up to a 27 year old mother of 3 small children, who has been fighting breast cancer for the? last five years only to be told to get her affairs in order that a Drug Addiction is a disease too. Shameful
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That’s actually a good point imo. It is a? choice to take that risk, and there are probably different reasons why people take that risk, eg ‘just experimenting, won’t get addicted’, etc.
Ironically I took? a ‘bathe’ before recording this video, and that nasty shit on my head would be wet hair.
Perhaps you should remove that dick from your head before commenting on another video.
I think you are? either on drugs or need to be . And take a bathe before you make the next video and shampoo that nasty shit on your head .
Considering all available evidence, I’d call it a disease. Anyone who says it’s? a choice is using lazy logic to avoid empathy.
To answer your question: no one is in control of there? behaviour, we are here to learn to be. Only age brings control over the “Bombarded Environments”. {is the Bombardment Positives or negatives on the whole} Next question:. A disordered behaviour would be disorder to inclination to any available context, IE / sex / drugs / alcohols / addictive by personality not by substance availability.
Next Question: control comes from within, “Leave the place your in” find? it else where for it is not there where you are evidently. You scare me, folks that get into such psychology crap some 83% are searching for there answer to there own illnesses, YET are paid to dissect others, you guy should have no such place EVEDENTLY…lol…Be patient grow old all will be revealed to an “OPEN MIND”
Thom in Scotland.
I’m re-phrasing myself, as I didn’t have my head on straight before. Dunno how I didn’t see it: abuse of substances can make it harder to have fun.? It’s an indirect effect of addiction, as addiction often leads to abuse. However, addiction itself, in my experience, is a disorder of choice. It affects all of my decisions. I get “hooked” on people,? food and places regularly. I have this terrible habit of calling everything I like my “favorite.” [cont]
[cont] My diet is extremely limited in variety. I’ve been this way my whole life and both of my parents are recovering alcoholics. My father calls it his “addictive personality.” I kinda understand where Brit was coming from. She was criticizing dependents, not addicts. However, I feel that addiction is a slippery? slope to dependency, especially in people? who don’t have much time to self-analyze. Ex. children who are addicted will have a very hard time not being dependents.(sugar, anyone?)
The more I know ;)?
I thought the reference to faggots as kindling was just a myth? Well Professor? Wikipedia says so anyway 😛
[cont] I wouldn’t say its a misconception, but it’s hard for me to know who is being genuine and who is using the defense mechanism because that opinion of mine comes from anecdotal evidence, my own experiences and from second hand sources. ?
I agree with you there in that anhedonia is not a criteria for withdrawal in addiction. It also depends on the drug – for example mum’s a nicotine smoker and the statement? about not being able to have fun doesn’t apply to her. Also, it depends on what one means by ‘fun’. For someone I knew, going to clubs, etc was only fun on stimulants, and boring otherwise, even though she found it fun before starting said stimulants. [cont]