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<blockquote data-quote="Inez Hull" data-source="post: 588513" data-attributes="member: 5114">Unfortunately addiction is a bit less cut and dry than X drug = Y effect. Long term and/or heavy use of psychoactive substances does lead to levels of tolerance increasing, up to a point where no longer consuming the substance causes withdrawal symptoms. This however is not necessarily the same thing as addiction. Some people can use alcohol or other drugs in high doses for long periods and then stop completely without any huge struggle, whilst others can become strongly dependant in short periods. Give an alcoholic a beer after twenty years of sobriety and the reaction will be very different to some guy who just likes to drink a bit too much for his own good. Simply put, addiction has just as much (or more) to do with the personality and makeup of the person who becomes addicted. People develop strong addictions to gambling and sex which are incredibly similar to alcoholism and drug addiction. Of course, in fantasy worlds uber drugs which hook the user after one use and which must be taken daily to stave of death exist <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Inez Hull, post: 588513, member: 5114"] Unfortunately addiction is a bit less cut and dry than X drug = Y effect. Long term and/or heavy use of psychoactive substances does lead to levels of tolerance increasing, up to a point where no longer consuming the substance causes withdrawal symptoms. This however is not necessarily the same thing as addiction. Some people can use alcohol or other drugs in high doses for long periods and then stop completely without any huge struggle, whilst others can become strongly dependant in short periods. Give an alcoholic a beer after twenty years of sobriety and the reaction will be very different to some guy who just likes to drink a bit too much for his own good. Simply put, addiction has just as much (or more) to do with the personality and makeup of the person who becomes addicted. People develop strong addictions to gambling and sex which are incredibly similar to alcoholism and drug addiction. Of course, in fantasy worlds uber drugs which hook the user after one use and which must be taken daily to stave of death exist :D [/QUOTE]

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