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In my opinion this article is dangerous as not all prople grow out of their addictions, as we can see on the streets, or we cannot when it is hidden in houses,
by mac_was 8y ago
In my opinion this article is dangerous as not all prople grow out of their addictions, as we can see on the streets, or we cannot when it is hidden in houses, when parents abuse themselves and their kids when drinking alcohol. This article might suggest, ok I might be addicted but Ill grow out of it. So people dont want go for treatments. I havent got contact with my father anymore but his 50 now and Im fairly certain he did not stop drinking, as his dad until he died.
Edit. Writing from my phone
- kranner 8y agoThe article is not making the claim that everyone recovers from addiction on their own. It is refuting the opposite claim: that nobody recovers from addiction on their own.
- BorRagnarok 8y agoThe title is very misleading though. I would argue more people die from addiction than grow out of it.
- kranner 8y agoThe title is not misleading at all. The article does not say anything that disagrees with the title. Also it cites several studies in support of its thesis.
- engineeringwoke 8y agoOP pushing his addict mentality on others. It's an externalization of his/her insecurities
- afiori 8y agoI think part of the conflict here is that addiction comes in a spectrum.
- usrusr 8y agoA large fraction of western middle class youth goes through a phase of rebellious experimentation with recreational drug use almost every one of them eventually grows or of it, either when they settle into jobs or after a long phase of stable, functional use that slowly becomes more sporadical than regular. Sure, if you count in as "died from addiction" everybody who was essentially taken by old age, just earlier than what might have happened with a healthier lifestyle, then the majority turns again. But those numbers never really make sense, except for constructing alarmism. Everybody who merely "lost years" (as opposed to something closer to the cliche of overdosing on a public toilet) would have also lost years to burgers, pollution, sedentiarism and stress. Which one was the killer?
- _Schizotypy 8y agoDying from old age is a misnomer. Nobody dies from simply being old, something has to go wrong biochemically
- collyw 8y agoYou would really have to back up that argument with some kind of evidence.
- AllegedAlec 8y agoYeah. I wonder what kind of survivor bias is buried in this article, to be honest.