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Originally Posted by MooseMan3000
Say what you will, but in my experience, ALL addictions are mental addictions. I'm not saying that people CHOOSE to be addicted. However, in every single case I've seen that someone has overcome either a "mental" or a "physical" addiction, the key factor is that the person DECIDED to get better. Until the addict makes the conscious effort to get beyond it, nothing else will help. That is why I consider all addictions "mental," and hence, they are all the same.
Of course there are subtle differences. But that doesn't make a lick of difference as to how you treat it.
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Huh? Of course it does, physical withdrawal is way different than psychological. Now obviously I'm not disagreeing with the fact they need to make the choice to get better but..
herion's "symptoms": Withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia,
diarrhea and vomiting, cold sweats with goose bumps ("cold turkey"), kicking movements ("kicking the habit"), and other symptoms. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last dose and subside after about a week.
Sudden withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health is occasionally fatal, although heroin withdrawal is considered much less dangerous than alcohol or barbiturate withdrawal.
For instance, I don't think a WoW addict will go through some of those bolded examples, so you would treat it differenty. I don't think he's in danger of needing a medical doctor or an ER trip b/c of withdrawal.