RE: No withdrawals after long-term opiate use?
This is in reply to a now-archived (locked) thread from 2011 that I find extremely interesting. There is now widely-available evidence, and current research, to support OP's claim. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/579531-No-withdrawals-after-long-term-opiate-use?
This video explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
Heartbreak (withdrawal from love): http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/this_is_your_brain_on_heartbreak
Essentially, if your environment is ideal, you will not need to connect with drugs, and will not go through withdrawal because you do not have a feeling of loss. However, if drugs were the only interesting thing going on in your life that you liked doing, and then you try to stop, you're going to go through withdrawal. You can even go into withdrawal from things that aren't drugs. It's because of how keenly you feel the loss, not because of any physical addiction. Weird, right? And completely contrary to commonly-accepted-as-fact wisdom, even among very smart people with tons of degrees.
Except... experimental research shows that this conventional wisdom may not hold up under the scrutinizing light of observation.
This is in reply to a now-archived (locked) thread from 2011 that I find extremely interesting. There is now widely-available evidence, and current research, to support OP's claim. http://www.bluelight.org/vb/threads/579531-No-withdrawals-after-long-term-opiate-use?
This video explains it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao8L-0nSYzg
Heartbreak (withdrawal from love): http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/this_is_your_brain_on_heartbreak
Essentially, if your environment is ideal, you will not need to connect with drugs, and will not go through withdrawal because you do not have a feeling of loss. However, if drugs were the only interesting thing going on in your life that you liked doing, and then you try to stop, you're going to go through withdrawal. You can even go into withdrawal from things that aren't drugs. It's because of how keenly you feel the loss, not because of any physical addiction. Weird, right? And completely contrary to commonly-accepted-as-fact wisdom, even among very smart people with tons of degrees.
Except... experimental research shows that this conventional wisdom may not hold up under the scrutinizing light of observation.
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