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To: alanrs who wrote (232207)	12/21/2007 6:39:09 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793916

They are mistaking the compulsion to obsessively take the drug with the difficulty of withdrawing from the addiction Having given this some thought, I am convinced that you are right. Clearly, there is an important distinction between the compulsive drug seeking of a coke or crack user, who wants to continue the pleasant hypomanic state and to avoid crashing - and the situation when a person faces physiologic addiction, like with opiates. There are overlaps. I've met many "recreational" heroin users who never became truly addicted. Many of them did become addicted - to methadone, after being recruited into becoming customers of the drug rehab industry. Nicotine is a stimulant, and it is probably "in between". Alcohol addiction is probably closer to that of opiates.