Hypothesis about opiates

[red22]

Depressed people take, like, twice as much overall chemical saturation than normal people to cross the withdrawal threshold because they're already low on feel-good chemicals. In other words, depressed people need to abuse opiates more than normal people in order to be significantly physically dependent on opiates. I'm depressed. One time when I bought several batches of heroin, the guy who sold it to me said that my resilience to withdrawal was remarkable.

In the grand scheme of things I think that depressed people are just as likely if not more likely to become addicts, but I think that technically they have more of that window of "outside the withdrawal zone."

 

[sekio]

Depressed people take, like, twice as much overall chemical saturation than normal people to cross the withdrawal threshold because they're already low on feel-good chemicals.

A sample size n=1 isn't enough to say this. Correlation, causation etc.

Depression is also way more complex than being "low on feel good chemicals" by the way.