Karen Hylen, the primary therapist at Summit Malibu Treatment Center in California, said that, while people have historically resorted to cannibalism for survival or religious reasons, modern interpretations of cannibalism focus on questions of addiction or mental illness.
The short time course of drug treatment in the current study may undermine the relevance of the results to questions of addiction and drug dependence.
It consists of nine questions on addiction, side effects and use of opioids with the answers on a Likert scale ranging from 1 = "Totally agree" to 5 = "Totally disagree".
And now, you've got the question of, How much addiction do we have to that?
So how did Winehouse, with her "air of elsewhere," manage to reach audiences at all? Brand knows that in most cases of addiction, this question never surfaces ("Not all addicts have Amy's incredible talent. Or Kurt's or Jimi's or Janis's. Some people just get the affliction"), but here it does, and it remains afloat, the only thing about her that she didn't drown.
Cheever questions the very nature of addiction, describes a rather fabulous-sounding romantic career (featuring multiple husbands and lovers) and sometimes contradicts herself, as thoughtful people must when discussing human appetites.
In the face of the overdose crisis, questions about the nature of addiction that could otherwise seem academic can actually be matters of life and death.
Berridge says the next step is examining how the accumbens responds to nonpleasurable cues associated with pleasurable stimuli--like the bell Pavlov rang before feeding his dogs--a question key to the understanding of addiction.
In the 1920s, fans of Conan Doyle started Sherlock Holmes societies in London and New York, at which they debated issues such as the question of whether Holmes's addiction to cocaine was beneficial to his perception or a sign of moral weakness.
Consumption ("ravenous, insatiable") is a kind of addiction; those who question whether the environment is in terminal crisis are addicts in denial.
