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by mikeyouse 4259 days ago
> Cocaine is very pleasurable, but it's hardly as addictive as heroine or (the legal drug) alcohol.

Not really true;

http://i.imgur.com/sBQn1Hr.gif

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Not that I necessarily doubt the veracity of this claim but you should probably point to a better looking graphic than that. Where did you even find it?
Agreed, it's a shitty chart, but it's from a study The Lancet performed;

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

Wiki actually sums it up pretty well;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substance_dependence#Dependence...