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by DazzRat on April 21st, 2010
Says above commenter:
"Alcohol is addictive, but not highly addictive."
Try telling the alcoholics for whom alcohol withdrawal led to DT's and/or was fatal that "it's not highly addictive."
Try telling to the multitude of recovering alcoholics how it's "not that addictive."
Check it out: alcohol and benzodiazepines are among the few -- if not the only -- drugs with the concern of potential fatality during addict withdrawal. Even heroin-addict withdrawal is generally considered to have little-or-no potential for fatality, if you factor out exacerbating conditions such as malnutrition and ancillary pathologies.
Seizures and/or death during severe physical alcohol withdrawal -- I do not know how much more addictive it can get. I mean, if that's not one helluva mean monkey on your back, I don't know what is.
If you mean that it does not have a "quick onset" addiction -- in other words, you won't necessarily get "hooked" from casual drinking once in a while -- then you're more or less correct. There are other drugs that "take hold" more aggressively.
by schmee2369 on October 16th, 2009
Well it is considered the hardest drug if you ask any alcoholic, or family memeber of a person who has died from an alcohol related disease, or alcohol poinsening.
More people have died and been addicted to alcohol, more than any other drug in the world combined all at the same time.
Plus alcohol is the only drug that effects every part of your body such as...
brain, bones, tissue, liver, kidneys, stomache, throat, blood...ect.
Alcohol should be illigal but the reason it is not is becuase it bumps up the economy....to many people demand it therefor it must be supplied. They tried to outlaw it back in the day but were overflowed by bootleggers...which is why well, it became legal again...
I bet every person knows at least 2 or 3 people who have problems with alcohol...
its sad, but true.
by OhLook - IamNoLongerAnonymous on October 15th, 2009
The term “hard drug” is generally used to describe those drugs that are highly addictive (i.e. you can be hooked after only a few uses). Alcohol is addictive, but not highly addictive.
by cheerio on October 17th, 2009
2 words.
Anheuser-Busch.
If you drink a cup of water after each alcoholic drink does it affect the buzz?
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