Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine
by huytersd on Saturday November 11, 2023 @09:43PM
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That’s just generic boilerplate addiction literature. None of those apply to nicotine. It’s cheap, legal and doesn’t have enough of an effect to be a public disorder risk. No one is committing domestic violence or impaired driving while being purely “hopped up on nicotine”. The most you might get is someone holding up a store to incidentally steal cigarettes while they go for what’s in the cash register, but that’s about it.
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Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine
by trogdor on Saturday November 11, 2023 @11:49PM
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I didn’t say anything about nicotine. You wrote that “Being addicted isn’t bad in itself.”
Addiction is bad by definition.
That is what I was replying to.
What you are brushing off as “boilerplate” are the DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorder — colloquially known as addiction.
Re:Nicotine: On the benefits and lack of demerits of nicotine
by huytersd on Sunday November 12, 2023 @01:08AM
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We’re clearly talking about nicotine in this thread. Your boilerplate addition did nothing to address anything about a nicotine addiction. Not all of them are the same- there is a stark difference in being addicted to caffeine and being addicted to heroin. Copy pasting information without context adds nothing useful.