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Addiction is rooted in truama. It's almost impossible to become an addicted if you didn't have to endure (childhood) trauma. So addiction is often an attempt of

Addiction is rooted in truama. It's almost impossible to become an addicted if you didn't have to endure (childhood) trauma. So addiction is often an attempt of escaping, or soothing that pain.

coldtea 6y ago
>Addiction is rooted in truama. It's almost impossible to become an addicted if you didn't have to endure (childhood) trauma. Sounds like pop psychology. There are tons of extremely addictive substances. Try one and you will get addicted after a while, even if your whole childhood was hugs and roses and ponies.
- arsome 6y ago
  I'm not sure, I agree it sounds like pop psych crap and you'll develop physical dependence of course, but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationally and people who find a need to be high every waking minute of their day. People who take to drinking a bottle of vodka for breakfast and those who keep it to the odd occasion. I don't see why we wouldn't see similar for other, even more physically addictive drugs.
  - coldtea 6y ago
    >but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationally and people who find a need to be high every waking minute of their day. Maybe, but why would it be due to childhood trauma alone? I can imagine someone with a happy childhood and a big 20-something or 30-something trauma (loss, divorce, various other issues) falling for drugs/alcohol addiction for the first time just the same.
- aminozuur 6y ago
  Veterans who are given an opioid for pain, rarely got addicted if they had a warm and loving childhood, and lived a life with community and friends. Veterans who had many Adverse Childhood Experiences (A high ACE score), such as coming from a broken home, or faced neglect and isolation growing up, were much more likely to become addicted to the opioids they were given to treat pain.
  - ChrisRR 6y ago
    Got a source for that?
  - darkerside 6y ago
    I'd say it's much more likely related to their existing support network (which is correlated to childhood situation). See the Rat Park study. Do you have any evidence as basis for your theory?
  - coldtea 6y ago
    >Veterans who had many Adverse Childhood Experiences (A high ACE score), such as coming from a broken home, or faced neglect and isolation growing up, were much more likely to become addicted to the opioids they were given to treat pain. Veterans at that stage are also usually young, so if they came from a broken home, or had isolation growing up, they'd still return to something like that. What about veterans that have build a succesful family and working life in between (aside from having had childhood trauma)?

Addiction is rooted in truama. It's almost impossible to become an addicted if you didn't have to endure (childhood) trauma. So addiction is often an attempt of escaping, or soothing that pain.

coldtea 6y ago

>Addiction is rooted in truama. It's almost impossible to become an addicted if you didn't have to endure (childhood) trauma. Sounds like pop psychology. There are tons of extremely addictive substances. Try one and you will get addicted after a while, even if your whole childhood was hugs and roses and ponies.

arsome 6y ago
I'm not sure, I agree it sounds like pop psych crap and you'll develop physical dependence of course, but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationally and people who find a need to be high every waking minute of their day. People who take to drinking a bottle of vodka for breakfast and those who keep it to the odd occasion. I don't see why we wouldn't see similar for other, even more physically addictive drugs.
- coldtea 6y ago
  >but I suspect there's a big difference between people who can pick up smoking weed on a weekly or monthly basis recreationally and people who find a need to be high every waking minute of their day. Maybe, but why would it be due to childhood trauma alone? I can imagine someone with a happy childhood and a big 20-something or 30-something trauma (loss, divorce, various other issues) falling for drugs/alcohol addiction for the first time just the same.
aminozuur 6y ago
Veterans who are given an opioid for pain, rarely got addicted if they had a warm and loving childhood, and lived a life with community and friends. Veterans who had many Adverse Childhood Experiences (A high ACE score), such as coming from a broken home, or faced neglect and isolation growing up, were much more likely to become addicted to the opioids they were given to treat pain.
- ChrisRR 6y ago
  Got a source for that?
- darkerside 6y ago
  I'd say it's much more likely related to their existing support network (which is correlated to childhood situation). See the Rat Park study. Do you have any evidence as basis for your theory?
- coldtea 6y ago
  >Veterans who had many Adverse Childhood Experiences (A high ACE score), such as coming from a broken home, or faced neglect and isolation growing up, were much more likely to become addicted to the opioids they were given to treat pain. Veterans at that stage are also usually young, so if they came from a broken home, or had isolation growing up, they'd still return to something like that. What about veterans that have build a succesful family and working life in between (aside from having had childhood trauma)?