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Clarifying: Nicotine harms everyone. Net harm to a schizophrenic may be negative, but they are still harmed. "Self-medication hypotheses" exist for many abused
by abandonliberty 10y ago
Clarifying: Nicotine harms everyone. Net harm to a schizophrenic may be negative, but they are still harmed.
"Self-medication hypotheses" exist for many abused substances. Rather than accusing the addicted of poor education, self control, or intelligence it argues (with mounting evidence) that there is a structural or genetic issue that contributes for some addictions.
Ideally we would figure out the mechanism of action and design something with less negative life altering side-effects.
There's always an opportunity to examine freedom of choice/free will for the more philosophic among us :)
- codr4life 10y agoBullshit. Nicotine in itself doesn't harm anyone, that's completely made up. On the contrary, a lot of people would be helped by getting more Nicotine into their system, preferably from eating veggies rather than smoking it.
- abandonliberty 10y agoThe burden of proof is on you here. If you're going to argue something at odds with the medical profession and most published research, you better have some solid facts from reliable sources.
- surement 10y agoKeep in mind that most of this published research is about smoking cigarettes (using "nicotine" as a metonymy).
- lolc 10y ago> Nicotine in itself doesn't harm anyone, that's completely made up. Unless you take too much or have an intolerance. Sweeping statements about neurotoxins usually ignore their complex effects.
- camperman 10y ago"Nicotine harms everyone. Net harm to a schizophrenic may be negative, but they are still harmed." This is also true of chemotherapy and many of the tricyclics.