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Consume More Than They Create

Cost More Than They Create

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When I talk about addiction being a learning disorder, I'm not saying that it isn't a problem of the brain, obviously. I'm saying the kind of problem it is is more like ADHD than it is Alzheimer's. And I think that fits the data. If addiction is actually progressive, it should be harder to recover as you get older and that is not actually true. It also gives a much more hopeful message. Because when people hear 'chronic progressive brain disease' they think dementia. When they hear hijacked brain they think: oh my god, these are zombies who are dangerous and we better lock them up for the protection of the rest of us. They think of people who have no responsibility for their actions so therefore we can treat them like children.

is a disorder of choice: Addicts choose to consume their drugs utilizing the same mechanisms of assessment and volition as nonaddicts use to choose other rewarding goods (heyman 2009).

Gene Heyman, most recently and forcefully, has argued that addiction is a disorder of choice: addicts choose to consume their drugs utilizing the same mechanisms of assessment and volition as nonaddicts use to choose other rewarding goods (Heyman 2009).

is a form of adaptation, a way of adapting to extreme social dislocation in fragmented societies. It is thus neither a disease that can be cured nor a moral error that can be corrected by punishment and education.

Addiction arises in fragmented societies because people use it as a way of adapting to extreme social dislocation. As a form of adaptation, addiction is neither a disease that can be cured nor a moral error that can be corrected by punishment and education.[11]Therefore, the current NIDA Model of addiction, which Alexander refers to as the official view, is untenable.[12] Contemporary world society can only overcome mass dislocation (and addiction) by restoring psychosocial integration on a political and social level. This requires major social change.[4](WIKIPEDIA)

is a psychological event whereby the struggle of addiction is what the addict is addicted to.

the alcoholic sees himself as the battle between himself and alcohol

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit. Osamu Dazai

is a social phenomenon originating in the 19th century, dating to the refinement of drugs and to a global capitalist desire for labor control.

Indeed, the term 'addiction' with reference to drug consumption at least appears to be relatively new, dating to the refinement of various drug preparations into very concentrated forms that were capable of producing craving and compulsive use. This occurred during the 19th century as a consequence of political economic changes in Europe and North America leading to drugs becoming widely available global commodities [7]. As a result of the consequent re-envisioning of the world that resulted, by 1900 it became possible to be labeled publically an alcoholic (or inebriate) or a drug addict (although a number of decades earlier for alcoholic/ inebriate). The late 19th century was also the period during which anthropology developed, and it occurred in the same locations that drug addiction became a socially recognized pathological condition. Indeed, both these developments can be linked historically to the emergence of global capitalism and its desire for labor control, with anthropology focusing (at least initially) on understanding peoples of subordinate colonial status (including their potential as passive laborers) and addiction being used commonly to label possibly unruly and resistant sectors within dominant colonial societies.

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is always an intangible habit which lives on despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind which at certain hours haunts the house.

first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.

is an attachment to the phallus as a means to obtain satisfaction by somehow avoiding the law or the passage through the social bond.

We see here, then, a divergencefor Freud, addiction is an attachment to the Phallus as a means to obtain satisfaction by somehow avoiding the law or the passage through the social bond. For Lacan, however, addiction correlates with an escape from the Phallus in this other sense, addiction as a joitissance, correlated with an escape from what Lacan calls the affliction of the speaking being with sexuality itself. In one case, the speaking being avoids the Law... in the other, the subject avoids the affliction of sexuality.

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