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Wren@lemmy.today 21 hours agoThat’s not addiction, otherwise I’m technically addicted to my painkillers, anti-psychotics and stimulants. As well as air, warmth and food.
An addiction is when someone compulsively seeks out a pleasurable experience despite net negative consequences.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
I agree but I’ve been surrounded by way too many examples in my life where these arguments and counter points don’t exactly work all the time. If you are a level headed person with a good background, education, self control and generally a good upbringing … then yes, someone on as much painkillers, stimulants and anti-psychotics as you say would be capable of managing all those medications in a responsible way.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of the world is filled with mentally unstable or people whose lives are on the edge of being unstable. There are a lot of dysfunctional and unbalanced people out there.
So when you give these arguments about drugs, they make sense to a very small segment of well balanced and moderately wealthy members of society … but when you apply this logic to the majority of society, these arguments just don’t make any sense.
I’ve known several people that started out with pain killers and opioid medications for real medical issues … only to become helplessly addicted and it was their medications and addictions (that originated from taking those medications) that killed them rather than their initial condition.
Wren@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
What argument? You mean the psychological definition of an addiction? That “argument?”