Last night me and my brother were good and high after smoking a big doob, and as such we started contemplating the little abstract concepts in life as per our usual roughtine when high. So a thought occured to us on addiction. Please keep in mind, no substances are to be named here, just the notion of being addicted.

As we all know, when one becomes addicted (both physically and psychologically) to a substance, there is an overwhelming craving to injest it again, a need to have it again so as to maintain a comfortable state of homeostasis. Thus, we do anything to obtain it, crave it with all our being, and sometimes fight to resist the urge to take it.

Now suppose for a month (or so) we give some highly addictive substance to a person without their knowing (lets say we slip it in their morning coffee). After a long period of injesting this substance, the person is very addicted without knowing it. Then we suddenly cut off the daily administration, initiating withdrawl symptoms. So the question arises, would the person still crave that substance? He/She doesn't know what is causing the withdrawl, so would there simply be a period of intense discomfort presumed to be an illness, or would that person have a craving for something and just not know what that something is? Would they know they need to take something to feel better?
mrdevious Reviewed by mrdevious on . An interesting thought on addiction Last night me and my brother were good and high after smoking a big doob, and as such we started contemplating the little abstract concepts in life as per our usual roughtine when high. So a thought occured to us on addiction. Please keep in mind, no substances are to be named here, just the notion of being addicted. As we all know, when one becomes addicted (both physically and psychologically) to a substance, there is an overwhelming craving to injest it again, a need to have it again so Rating: 5