[Warlord Vir]

So are you do have in authority on addictions?

[draconious380]

Addiction is all in the mind so that falls under the range of a nuerologist (I misspelled it I think).  My limited expertise is only under a chemical reaction, not addiction.  Though they found the section of the brain that causes addiction is the insula region.  Recently several patients with brain damage were studied because damage to the insula region of their brain cause their addictions to vanish.

[Warlord Vir]

Well.
I hope they are not jump to conclusions and do some research before saying anything like that as a supported idea.

[draconious380]

It will be ages before that pans out since there is not a lot we understand about the brain itself.

[TechnoDragon]

I heard about that study...the patient in question was a smoker, after his accident that caused damage to that region of the brain he no longer wanted to smoke...immediately after his recovery.  And sorry warlord, didn't realize that was the part of the post you were referring to.  You are right physicall withdrawl would not last a lifetime, but depending on the person and the severity (to the individual) they could potentially cause themselves to have symptoms that long...

[Warlord Vir]

It ok. I hope that it was not conciende that it happen and they can get alot of information from the research.

[draconious380]

Never know with science, all great discoveries of the modern era have been accidents.

[Warlord Vir]

And what is science fact is tomorrow's fiction.
Ex. Cocanies was a main part of Coca Cola. Because they believe Cocanies was good for you. We now know that to be not true.

[draconious380]

True but in some cases manufacturers don't care if something is bad as long a you keep on buying.

[Warlord Vir]

Until the Food and Drug Act, but company may can to make a quick profit here and there without caring of consumer sometimes.

[Dragonchilde]

To quote Denis Leary, "It's a drug, I'm Addicted, OKAY!"  Once you start with caffeine, it is so prevalent in modern food and drink, that even when you are trying to quit the addiction you are still feeding it.

As a child we used to have an electric fence, and I would occasionally hold on to it until a pulse of electricity came through.  It would give me a little shock and jolt, but it was one hell of a rush.  And it hurt a little afterwards, well My arm was sore.  Yet that never stopped me from doing it because of the little rush.

This is caffeine, BRING ON THE JOLT!