Question by DrAnders_pHd: Is there any way I can determine if I would be unable to become addicted to heroin withouth trying it?
I sometimes feel like I am unable to become addicted to anything. I don´t smoke. I have tried it but didn´t like it so I didn´t keep it up. I drink but only when I feel like it. Which is once or twice per month. I have tried several light drugs and none of them had any effect on me. People describe their “nictoine highs” “sugar rushes”, “pot highs” and I´m just “what the hell are you talking about?”. Not even caffeine affects me. Not in the slightest. So when I read somewhere that giving up sugar is supposed to be harder than giving up heroin, I gave up sugar cold turkey. And without any hint of a problem. So I really have no idea of what it is like to be addicted to something. I feel like I am actually “immune” to addiction. Could this be? Is there any way, a clinical test for instance, that could be used to see if I am indeed immune to addiction of, say, heroin?
Bonehead question? Suppose a clinical test would show I have a gene that produces a protein that makes me immune to addiction? And that that protein could be used to produce a drug that could cure addiction? Would you rather see others spend 19 years as addicts because you didn´t read all of my question? Is addiction a disease, a mental state or a simpe matter of receptors in the brain? I propose it is alternative 3 and that a drug to counter the effect a narcotic substance has on the receptors in the brain could be developed.
And are all smokers idiots? I suggest that while most smokers just tried cigarettes in their youths, just as I did, the got addicted almost immediately. I did not. I want to know if there is a safe way I could be tested to see if I am indeed immune to addiction.
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Answer by 2coldscorpio
being a recovering drug addict after 19 years of addiction, i say thanks for the bonehead question. its good to know that people still think like an addict
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