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01-19-2010, 09:37 AM
Loose Cannon
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I'll respectfully disagree with the contention that opium and its derivatives are intrinsically highly addictive (gasp!). It's a commonly-held myth (cocaine isn't intrinsically highly addictive either). A lot of the talk about people "getting hooked" on smack or crack with just one hit is either deliberate misinformation and fear-mongering or a well-meaning but misguided echoing of societal beliefs that have no grounding in pharmacological science. I had the privilege of studying psychopharmacology under the late Dr. Barry Beyerstein (of
Rat Park
fame) and he'd always talk about how most (but not all) opiate addiction in mammals is the result of a conglomeration of factors, most significantly poor living conditions, pre-existing behavioural disorders, and inadequate coping mechanisms, because there's nothing in the chemical and physical structure of naturally occurring opiates and similar alkaloids that should make them any more addictive than any other recreational drug like, say, alcohol: Not everybody who drinks alcohol becomes an alcoholic (in fact, the overwhelming majority of people who drink alcohol are responsible drinkers) and the ones who fall into alcoholism almost always have a diagnosed or undiagnosed underlying mental illness (such as depression or bipolar disorder) or are pushed into maladaptive drinking behaviour because of their poor living conditions and their inability to cope with them. By the same token, the type of person who would go above and beyond the legal highs afforded by alcohol (and marijuana, if you live in a place where it's de-criminalised) is likely to already be a compromised individual behaviourally, and would be addicted to any other substance or activity that tickles their brain's pleasure centers, whether it's opium, cocaine, chocolate, sex, or little plastic soldiers
.
Yeah I probably said that wrong. Because I doubt if everyone who takes any drug is automatically addicted. Drug addicts worldwide may only be 5% of the total population. But there are enough of those who do become addicted, which can be viewed as a problem. Although I doubt it is anything close to 18th century China which I would say was more of an epidemic. But I'm just picking your brain Zulu. I became a little more curious based on what my guide at the musuem was saying. Russians sort of like all or nothing. Eradicating all the drugs in one country could probably only be done under severe repression.
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