Substance addiction is widespread, and often, from the outside, other people cannot tell that someone is an addict. Even “light” addictions can be quite disruptive to well-being, productivity, life enjoyment, and society.
Addiction is not solely an issue of socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals. Modern society is probably full of high-functioning drug addicts and a ton of successful individuals are known to be dependent on a variety of drugs, including amphetamines, benzodiazepines, alcohol, and opioids.
Whatever their background, for many people with an active addiction, their addiction is their worst habit that is rippling into many other aspects of their life. And if people stop their worst habit, many aspects of their inner and outer life tend to make a huge leap forward. However, coming off is not so easy, in fact, can be brutal.
Furthermore, through a web of intertangled feedback mechanisms, pretty much every addiction leads to a recalibration of the “hedonic setpoint” and the intense euphoria and high from the beginning ceases to deliver, which is usually followed by dose escalation.
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