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Originally Posted by eroticsexxx
You have got to be kidding, right? Tell me that you're just saying what you are because you are trying to get a reaction.
Let's start with facts, shall we?
The neurotoxicity of meth along with the way it actually damages key systems in the human body, make it nothing but poison that happens to trigger the release of dopamine.
When you take meth the flood of dopamine ensures that the addiction cycle is effectively jumpstarted. It is one of the most addictive drugs with a relapse rate of over 92%.
Let me repeat that statistic again. METH HAS A RELAPSE RATE OF OVER 92%. That is higher than cocaine addiction stats.
Now you can continue spreading your misinformation, but you have no ground to stand on as of this point.
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Look it up. Try the merck manual, one of the essential books for medical practice. Page 1492 on the one I have here, 15th edition. Page 1477 has a chart also, and a short description of the difference between psychic depence and physical dependence (their terminology). It describes "amphetamine dependence" as being psychic not physical, says that if there are any withdrawal symptoms they are mild and short lived. The exact sentence goes "The withdrawal syndrome, if one exists, is not severe.". Note the phrase "if one exists" - in the merck manual.
It's habit forming but not technically physically addictive, it doesn't cause physical dependence or significant physical withdrawal. Not in the way that chemicals like nicotine, alcohol, barbituates, opiates, and most of the antiaxiolytics do. You can stop taking it at any time and the big physical reaction is that you fall asleep because you are exhausted.
Marijuana, cocaine, and the hallucinogens are also listed in the class of chemicals that cause psychic but not physical dependence.
Now, I understand, you want to combine physical dependence and psychic dependence, to you if a thing is habit forming that means it's "addictive". Sex addiction, porn addiction, internet addiction, gambling addiction, all the "moral" psychic addictions, they're bad, mkay, right? Unless it's the physical addiction (dependence) to the governmentally approved drugs like alchohol and tobacco and prescription cns depressants, which cause hugely more deaths and misery than all the illegal drugs combined, that's okay, our society can handle those, those drugs aren't "evil", and are morally acceptable.
Thats fine, I don't mind, your beliefs are your business not mine. You have the right to believe what you like.
My belief is that false information is the problem, not the solution, and that the government shouldn't be promoting false information even if they believe it's for your moral good.
All this is basic libertarian philosophy.