addict

I am aware of the drug addict a few houses down.

I was a hardcore IV heroin and cocaine addict for 10 years.

This reads like a drug addict describing going cold turkey.

The other side wants you to believe that all drug use ends in addiction and death.

After Graham paid up--and wrote the $500 off as a business expense--Erdös said, "You've showed me I'm not an addict.

I still have addictive behaviors, but it just isnt an option anymore.

Yet when the question of addiction comes up, many people say precisely that, and I am at a loss to understand why.

I like to think a drug addict somewhere will go on to develop the next great operating system.

I'm a rails developer, a news addict, a french citizen and since recently, a 3d printer user.

The stereotypes of 'drug addicts' and 'drug users' are grossly inaccurate.

This move seems based in the plainly idiotic attitude of "well if an addict can't do something safely, he'll just give it up".

Yes, addiction ends up that way for some, but by and large addicts are middle-class, educated, and live in houses with their friends or families.

Take for instance the word "addict", which like the word "war" is such a broad term that it doesn't have much meaning on it's own without further clarification.

It's hard to argue with hundreds of billions of dollars and oil-addict America becoming a net exporter.

Recovering opiate addict here, I guess I'd fit your definition of having a "real addiction[sic]".

Yes, addiction ends up that way for some, but by and large addicts are middle-class, educated, and live in houses with their friends or familiesExcellent points.

As an alcoholic, I have a tendency to downplay addictions that aren't to dangerous substances.

There is quite a chasm between the flower child from Novato coming down for the weekend to trade peace patches for shrooms and the addict gutter punk types who live there permanently.

Yes, addiction is a terrible tragedy and sometimes danger for the rest of us -- but it's a personal disaster a long time before it affects any of us.

In fact it might even be good "for the environment" since drug addicts are unlikely to have many kids and they usually have shorter life spans thus leaving a smaller carbon footprint on our precious Gaia.

Clearly the society should not subsidize their medical treatment either and if they kill while hallucinating or steal to pay for their fix, being a drug-addict should not be treated as extenuating circumstances.

I suffer physical withdrawal which is somewhat uncomfortable, but the fact that I could forget to have caffeine in the first place indicates a different sort of addiction than my alcoholism.

It would be extremely silly to argue that one is "really" addiction and other is not, because "addiction" is just an abstract category we created to subsume different instances of similar phenomenology.

I just want to chime in and say the defining attribute of addiction isn't whether or not something is physically addictive, but whether or not the behavior is negatively impacting your life and you can't stop on your own aka psychological addiction.

> Drug use is a health-related issue, whether it is a doctor prescribing medications, a patient taking meds off-label, a person self-medicating, an addict, or some kind experimentation> We have a caricatured view of the drug addict -- the unwashed, illiterate, toothless junkie hiding out in a crack house.