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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
You’re seriously asking for a source that people use intoxicants because they make them feel good?
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You claimed "a lot of people are addicted because they just like getting high." What percentage of people dealing with extreme addiction issues are dealing with them solely on the basis that they like to get wasted, and not because there are other mitigating socioeconomic and mental factors?
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Look, I understand why academics and policy wonks like to map structural factors and economics to social ills. It makes for convincing papers, and more importantly, remedies that are also structural and economic. But you can’t understand addiction without understanding that many people get pleasure from intoxicants. That they enjoy the feeling of being wasted, and socially bond over intoxication.
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No, they map it to those factors because that's what research and data supports. I get that anecdotal evidence is your favourite type of evidence, but people who do these things for a living need to use actual data.