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This is correct. You have to work on an alcohol addiction. It takes a few months to develop a dependency severe-enough that withdrawal might result in seizures. Short of that, you can just quit, if you can get time off work for a few days in bed.

You also have to work on a heroin addiction, so I have heard. It simply isn't true that "one dose and you're hooked". People become addicts because they want to be addicts, for whatever reason. Part of it is lifestyle; part of it is the desire to be dependant, so you get to not have to be responsible for yourself.

[watwut]

> You also have to work on a heroin addiction, so I have heard. It simply isn't true that "one dose and you're hooked".

When I looked at it, it is something like 30% of people develop dependence after first one-two usages. Then there are people who can use it casually for a long time before developing it.

[denton-scratch]

Could it be that those people were "dependent" even before their first dose? My argument is that some people want to be dependent. So they work on it.

[denton-scratch]

I shouldn't have said "you can just quit" - that's medical advice, and I'm no kind of medic. A decent nurse will tell you if you'll be able to just sleep it off.

Sorry for commenting to self, but it's too late to edit.