Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It

Re:Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by rysertio on Saturday February 17, 2024 @04:46PM (#39413865)

This article confuses drug use with addiction. Addiction is a state where a patient wants to quit a drug, but can't. And that is when you want to intervene as a psychiatrist.

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Re:Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by frereubu on Saturday February 17, 2024 @05:46PM (#39414261)

Can you say where the article does this? It seems pretty explicit to me, with the key word being diagnosable: "I quit at around the age when, according to large epidemiological studies, most people who have diagnosable addiction problems do so — without treatment."

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Re:Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by alpaca128 on Saturday February 17, 2024 @06:22PM (#39414514)

Afaik addiction isn't defined based on what the person wants, but if their life is negatively affected by it.

Sometimes I don't get why that's a necessary condition, but for addiction it makes sense.

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Re:Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by cmaggiulli on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:09PM (#39415466)

There is nothing in the definition of addiction that requires the desire to quit

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Re:Most People with Addiction Simply Grow Out of It by rPlayer6554 on Sunday February 18, 2024 @07:41AM (#39418562)

No addiction as I understand it is _even if they want to_ they cannot. Not all addicts want to quit.

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