The exaggerated opposite effects of the drug ARE withdrawals. Heroin withdrawal is mainly because of mu-opiate downregulation. Cocaine and meth withdrawal are mostly a result of dopamine receptor downregulation. It's the same thing.
Cannabinoid receptors are not significantly involved in our emotions like dopamine receptors so there's very little subjective withdrawal. Cannabis also doesn't significantly act on dopamine which is a requirement for something to be truly addictive.
Not necessarily. Heroin withdrawal involves many things that aint in no way opposite effects of the drug. for example--watery eyes, sweating, etc--your eyes dont water less when you use, and you sweat plenty when you high too. Things like that. which is different than "I stopped using a drug that made me really, really happy, so i felt sad when i stopped--It must be withdrawal!" like you see with weed.
withdrawal at least the withdrawal that I am talkin about, is a physical process that comes from physical dependency on the drug--theres a difference between a dopehead withdrawing and experiencing all the symptoms that i am sure you know, and a person who was a cokehead or meth head, feeling extremely tired and hungry after they stop using, etc. you feel me? of course they gonna feel tired and hungry, they are used to bein awake for days at a time and not eating. With dope the effects aint just the simple "opposite of being high". nausea, vomiting, sweating,watery eyes, yawning and sneezing, all those things, they aint the "opposite of bein high" syndrome, they are actual withdrawal symptoms. u get where Im comin from?
they talk about cocaine withdrawal or marijuana withdrawal but those are symptoms that come up becuz of a rebound effect type of thing....you feel hungry, giggly, relaxed , etc for so long, that when you stop smoking of course you gonna feel a shitty appetite, anxiety, restlessness, a down feeling, etc. that aint the same thing as experiencing heroin, alcohol, or benzo withdrawal.
I know that we pretty much on the same page but I just hate hearin people talkin about 'withdrawal' from substances that aint physically addictive.
People act like the fact that you feel some negative effects when you stop a particular drug, means there is addition to it. thats the thinkin we seein here in this story. A woman smokes mad weed everyday for years and stops. She feels kinda shitty. It must mean that is withdrawal, and she was addicted.
It couldnt mean that she is just so used to bein high, that not being high is a negative feeling and her body is just adjustiing to it, no, it ust mean that she was addicted.
people think that withdrawal means "Any not-completely-pleasant feelings emotional or physical, that you experience when you stop a drug", and that you can tell somebody was addicted if they experience that (wrong) definition of withdrawal. when in reality withdrawal is a specific thing that aint just a blanket word for any and every kind of not-nice feeling you have when you stop using a drug.