Quote: (12-30-2013 05:29 PM)teh_skeeze Wrote:
It's not that black and white Oz. You can die if you quit a hardcore heroin addiction cold turkey. I'm fairly certain that it's the same with stimulants. Allegedly Lemmy Kilmister from Motorhead has to take amphetamines or his heart will just stop.
Well, to say that you will die if you stop doing something is not the same as to say that you can't stop. He can still stop if he chooses to, whether or not that is a good idea.
There are quite a few examples of addiction in which stopping cold turkey is not the best thing to do, though I'm not aware of any examples where you can't taper off the substance. But this doesn't changes the simple point that it's never beyond someone's power to stop if they choose to do so (nor the other simple point that there is such a thing as addiction).
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...