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According to our psychological theories any sufficiently fast acting and strong painkiller will be addictive as long as it removes or reduces any type of pain.
by reliablereason 1y ago
According to our psychological theories any sufficiently fast acting and strong painkiller will be addictive as long as it removes or reduces any type of pain.
Seams strange if this one truly will not have "drug abuse" connected to it.
- tossandthrow 1y agoI am very curious about these theories, can you refer them?
- reliablereason 1y agoOperant conditioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning There are also lots of studies indicating that the speed of action of a drug is important for addiction. Which essentially boils down to the fact that the brain (beeing effected by operant conditioning) needs a drug response that is sufficiently noticeable to be connected to the action of taking the drug.
- dwroberts 1y agoThe impression I got from Wikipedia reading about this (suzetrigine) is that it’s not addictive because it acts on peripheral nerves and not directly in your brain
- reliablereason 1y agoGiven how scared people are of "addiction" the seller certainly would like that narrative and it might make sense from a withdrawal perspective. Which in turn has an effect on how addictive a drug is to a very large degree.
- Akasazh 1y agoYeah, the lack of addictiveness was one used to promote the spiffy new drug heroine over the addictive morphine.