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Significant doses of a psychoactive drug on a regular basis.


I eat food several times a day and it often improves my mood and ability to focus. Is this psychoactive and/or addiction?


It could be worse.

What if it was a truly addictive, habit-forming, tolerance-building drug consumed on a habitual basis without ever allowing a full day, week, month, or year of detoxification to occur, regardless of its toxic properties?

Does that sound more like addiction?


Jeez, fine, I'll put my phone down already!


A necessary component of addiction as a disease is harm. Without that, the rest doesn’t matter.


>A necessary component of addiction as a disease is harm.

That really widens the basket.

In a case like this I tend to focus on toxiciity alone, whether it is apparent or not, that is one of the known things that can creep up on you and do irreparable damage.




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