Drug Addiction and Old Ideas

Drug addiction? Of course it's what everyone has always believed. If you took the drug once you were hooked and to kick the habit was like dying over and over again. But not so -

Wow, what an eye opener - I must admit that I held all of those views about heroin addition - it is interesting that addiction is more a matter of moral weakness than a chemical dependency.

It seems the more one is predisposed to become dependent, that is, those that seek alternative and radical life styles, raging wildly with flailing arms spewing unintelligible psychotic fantasies about how right they are about how wrong everyone else is, the more likely that person will seek out a substitute for their lack of independent thought, i.e. liberal Democrats - heh

In any event, a great article - but I won't print it here -