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Can heroin addiction be treated with heroin intake management?
by seventhtiger 4y ago
Can heroin addiction be treated with heroin intake management?
- 2000UltraDeluxe 4y agoGoing cold turkey on food would be unhealthy, so some kind of management is required. I didn't grow fat because I have a slow metabolism (and I do), or because I'm addicted to a specific unhealthy type of food; I'm fat because I made a major switch in lifestyles (hard labour to desk job) without any changes to my diet, and because I kept prioritizing other things than my health for decades. After a while it became obvious that change is needed, but boy is it difficult to lose weight once you've had it for 20 years! The solution is managing my diet. Sure, some variables may change (such as chemicals affecting my body), but I still need to keep consuming less calories than I burn in order to do something about the issue.
- seventhtiger 4y agoThis nuance you're adding is not optional or dismissable. It's essential complexity to solving the problem. Calorie in calorie out is not false. It's just not useful. Like saying to go to the moon you need to go up. Calorie in is appetite. Calorie out is metabolism. The specifics of how these are affected, and the solutions to fixing them, are a lot more fruitful than reaffirming the second law of thermodynamics.