• recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Its really not. The context of the question was “there are zero consequences for your actions”. To put it somewhat reductively, addiction is, in essence, a direct or indirect consequence of experiencing a high. Since the hypothetical specifiee no consequences, there would be no addiction.

    I appreciate the concern, but please don’t read too much into it. Its a silly answer to a silly question.

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      2 months ago

      except… it’s not. we can let it go because it is a light hearted question, but as someone who provides treatment to this population I just wanted to give a shout out to the fact that addiction goes beyond biochemical dependence and usually stems from shit being fucked up in your own life that causes you to be interested in using substances to begin with