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Quote by: Gorgo I've never totally understood the concept of these drugs being thought of as "physically addictive." No one 'needs' heroin. No one 'needs' a cigarette. Yes, your body chemistry is changed when you poison it, but that's not a need. It's not a reason to continue, it's a reason to stop. Yes, certain things seem pleasurable in the short term, but that in and of itself does not create a physical need.
Addiction seems to me to be nothing more than the choice to do something repeatedly which has greater harmful effects than are required to keep one healthy. |
Actually gorgo that's psychological addiction such as with food or gambling or something like that. Drugs like heroin on the other hand, physically alter your brain chemistry and practically force you to keep taking them. If it wasn't physically addicting i'm surepossible people would kick the habit a ell of a lot more. Instead they relapse numerous times and often never fully recover.
When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered
Martin Luther King Jr. |