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there are plenty of rich, workaholic, yuppie addicts. professional drive is oftentimes counterbalanced with substance abuse. makes me wonder what kind of craz
by flachsechs 9y ago
there are plenty of rich, workaholic, yuppie addicts. professional drive is oftentimes counterbalanced with substance abuse.
makes me wonder what kind of crazy bubble you grew up in. what a strange belief to have.
- wellboy 9y agoHe still has a point. Often, addicts quit cold turkey after a moment of clarity. That doesn't mean that it is not an illness.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Often, addicts quit cold turkey after a moment of clarity. More accurately, often addicts attempt to do so, but the vast majority who do so relapse. But, in any case, not using drugs doesn't mean you stop having an addiction anymore than avoiding contact with bees means you stop having an allergy to their sting.
- astronautjones 9y agocold turkey is also dangerous - Amy Winehouse quit alcohol cold turkey and died from a relapse of alcohol, a legal and (practically, for adults) unregulated drug
- jacquesm 9y agoThat can kill you. And the fact that some manage does not mean that all of them could.
- gozur88 9y agoI grew up in the bubble where a few addicted people I knew managed to kick their addiction when the alternative was sufficiently grim. Did you grow up in a bubble where that never happens? What a depressing bubble.
- astronautjones 9y agoAre you a fan of any art? anyone prolific who was crippled by addiction? it's a human condition and that american ideal of "just straighten up" clearly no longer applies. What if I told you that using the internet was detrimental to your health? Could you just stop?