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Addiction ruins lives predominantly because of the way society reacts to it. If addicts were provided with what they need a whole slew of society driven live r
by ageofwant 11y ago
Addiction ruins lives predominantly because of the way society reacts to it.
If addicts were provided with what they need a whole slew of society driven live ruining will go away.
If you step away from all the moralising you'll realise its better to simply pay addicts off. Society won't crumble because of it, in fact a lot of the problems will go away. A minority of the at 10-15% of people with addictive personalities will find a way to get high and you can nothing about that.
Addiction is a medical problem and should be treated like it.
- lujim 11y agoIt gets tricky when you have a family member that is in a spiral. You are trying to do anything you can to keep them going long enough in the hopes they will wake up one day and be ready to come back. Not the most rational thing in the world. Eventually we will be able to "vaccinate" people to wipe out the addictive channels in the brain humans will be in a good spot.
- xrange 11y agoI wonder if anyone has thoughts on the book "The Games People Play", and more specifically the "Alcoholic" game: http://www.ericberne.com/games-people-play/alcoholic/ http://www.ericberne.com/games-people-play/alcoholic/ https://archive.org/details/TheGamesPeoplePlay https://archive.org/details/TheGamesPeoplePlay