For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.

  • stopforgettingit@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Anyone can become an addict, it is not a genetic trait. If you use any additive substance long enough you will being addicted, there is no if, its just a matter of when.

    This includes alcohol and more people are addicted to alcohol then they want to admit.

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      11 hours ago

      Sure hope I am free to do what I want with my own body someday. Surely someone will believe in bodily autonomy eventually.

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        9 hours ago

        Not sure where you got that from? You are free to become addicted to anything you want.

        My unpopular option is that addiction is not genetic, if you take an addictive substance long enough you will become addicted, no one is exempt from this.

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      I’m not sure about this when it comes to heroin. I’ve tried it and it was meh, but others try it feel like they have never before felt ok. And pot too I can’t find the high at all, it feels yucky but so many people love it and feel high on it, so in some ways there are “two kinds of people in the world” situations.

      I do agree that anyone can become an addict if they try hard enough, though. Coffee for me, caffeine.

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        13 hours ago

        This is 100% true for heroin. If you pressed through and still did it enough times even if you thought it was meh, you would eventually become addicted, because that is how brain chemistry works. It is not the high people are chasing when they get addicted, its relief from the withdraws.