October 01, 2016 12:23PM | Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 9,147
Status: HOF Inductee
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"And since I am not being selective in my searches"
See that's what's called an attack mode meaning it becomes about the poster and not the issue.
And BTW: I agree with everything in those articles you attached. So there really is no "debate" between the two of us. Our focus is different. Mine is on the need for treatment no matter what caused a person to be unable to stop harmful behavior. I "think" yours is addressing whether certain maladaptive behavior patterns should be called "addictive" if a substance that leads to the behavior is not in and of itself "addictive". I also believe you are saying that a person can become psychologically "addicted" to a substance such as coffee, sweets, that by themselves contain no addictive qualities. No argument from me on that. My only point is that a person who cannot control the amount of key lime pie he eats and consequently balloons to 300lbs and his life is correspondingly impacted needs just as much help in overcoming the addiction, compulsion, (whatever you choose to call it) as the crack addict.
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