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Coffee is Addictive
zpok writes "According to scientists, coffee is really addictive, which I guess must mean they'll come in and confiscate your latte any moment now..." Can't wait for the study proving sugar is sweet.
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Why not? People actually think Alcoholism is a disease.
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You don't see recovering alcoholics getting free shots of coffee to help them get over it.
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Well, it's been common knowledge for a while that caffine is physically addictive. Anything that gives you headaches and the shakes for 3 days when you quit using it is physically addictive.
I personally feel there is some sort of mental defect in coffee addicts, but that doesn't relieve them of any responsibility in the matter.
I rarely flame, but goddamn, I'm sick of this shit.
Alcoholics drink too much alcohol because they are degenerate assholes. If you want to call degenerate asshole-ism a disease, then go right ahead.
"It's not my fault I get loaded for weeks at a time and kick the shit out of my wife and kids, I have a disease in a medical dictionary."
The same goes for dumbfuck gambling 'addicts'.
And btw, I've known quite a few alcoholics in my short 22 years. Fortunately, none of them was in my immediate family. But then, my father isn't a degenerate asshole, though he sure grew up with a lot of them.
It's great being at a friend's house and hearing their father downstairs ripping apart the basement looking for bottles he has hidden away. "GODDAMN JESUS FUCKING COCKSUCKERS!!!" I think was the phrase he used when he couldn't find them.
Ripping a basement apart looking for hidden bottles is likely a symptom of the desperation to get a fix to quell the very real and very uncomfortable effects of withdrawal.
.35. Wtf was he withdrawing from?
Uh, withdrawal? Here's the problem with that: He was drinking for days, and drinking when I got there. His blood alcohol level must have been like
I'll admit he was desperate for a drink. But that doesn't mean he's not a degenerate asshole.
Also, if you could cite me a study that says definitively that alcohol is physically addictive, please do. I sure as hell am not a teetotaller, but I don't get break into a cold sweat when I don't have a drink in my hand.
But you're right, perhaps I shouldn't generalize--not all alcoholics are wife beaters. But how many alcoholics would I have to meet for you to say that my experience isn't "too narrow"?
And finally, no I've never experienced what addiction is like, though if alcohol were actually physically addictive, I and many of my friends should be junkies by now. But we aren't, because we have common sense.
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Jesus. That definition is so broad in scope as to include almost everything. So, when someone nearly sideswipes me in traffic and I get pissed-off and start swearing like I'm afflicted with coprolalia, it's a mental disorder.
There is a problem with this definition. What exactly is normal cognitive behavior? Mine varies with the amount of sleep, work, caffeine, etc. I've said it for years --- psychiatrists, sociologists, and their ilk are not real scientists. They are charlatans that clothe their gobbledygook in pseudo-mathematical formulae and reams of data in order to fool the laymen. And it works a great deal of the time --- but not all the time. Serge Lang talks about this kind of thing in "Challenges".