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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
I didn't look at it like that. That makes sense. It's just that I was thinking addict as in meaning someone who's "gotta have it." Ya know what I mean? I guess I was just thinking that if someone is doing coke or crack, at work, they really wouldn't be able to function and would look a mess, and their work would suffer. With coffee, people can drink it at work, function, and look normal. But, I never thought about the high as being the way you pointed it out to be. Makes sense.
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"Intervention" has people thinking that addicts have to look and act a certain way to people who don't see them in intimate settings.
One of the points of addiction is the ability to hide it and suffer in silence. People can be alcoholics for years until it begins to impact their professional lives. Their home lives may have suffered for a long time. An example is bigtime corporate execs and politicians who are celebrated in the public eye--while their families know they use cocaine and drink alcohol everyday. Some call this "functional/recreational use," but I don't believe that anything that you "need" is "functional/recreational use."
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