Screen Addiction Disorder
– By Dave Whamond –
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The greater the drug-induced euphoria or escape one attains from its use, the more one wants to repeat the experience; and the more intolerable one finds their sober reality, the more pleasurable that escape will likely be perceived.
In other words: the greater one’s mental pain or trauma while sober, the greater the need for escape from reality, thus the more addictive the euphoric escape-form will likely be.
Nevertheless, neglecting and therefore failing people struggling with debilitating drug addiction should never be an acceptable or preferable political or religious option.
But the more callous politics that are typically involved with lacking addiction funding/services tend to reflect conservative electorate opposition, however irrational, against making proper treatment available to low- and no-income addicts.
Most conservatives still insist that drug addicts are simply weak-willed and/or have committed a moral crime.
Yet, western pharmaceutical corporations have intentionally pushed their own very addictive and profitable opiate resulting in immense suffering and overdose death numbers — indeed the real moral crime — yet got off relatively lightly and only through civil litigation.
Meanwhile, many chronically addicted people won’t miss this world if they never wake up. It’s not that they necessarily want to die; it’s that they want their pointless corporeal suffering to end.