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Why is cocaine so addictive?
Not exact matches
They call me the King of Darkness, when I offer you no pain
Why would they label me heartless, when your love
is my
cocaine And your soul
is my Rogaine, I have a thirst to know your brain When you enter my domain got ta take this number for your name But you don't have to drink cyanide, I
'm gonna
be right by ya side If we got ta take that riot ride, on the enemy and defy your side Fight for the place we
're building, for the reproduction of more children Trying to get that number back around 6 billion, I
'm gonna rule until then Founded this colony like a pilgrim, anybody try to penetrate this section or threaten we KILL THEM
He says heroin from Afghanistan and
cocaine from Colombia can
be connected to one drug dealer in the UK, and that
's why an international approach
is necessary.
We didn't find anything that can explain to you from point A to point B
why Ozzy can think up good songs or
why he
is so addicted to
cocaine, but we found some things that would
be interesting to follow up on.
«Given the swimming pools of booze I've guzzled over the years — not to mention all of the
cocaine, morphine, sleeping pills, cough syrup, LSD, Rohypnol... you name it — there
's really no plausible medical reason
why I should still
be alive.
That
's why crack
cocaine is more addictive than snorted
cocaine: inhaling into the lungs» large surface area rather than the mucous membranes of the nose gets the drug into the bloodstream much faster.
«Our study affirms and may help explain
why people who regularly use
cocaine are more willing to partake in risky sex when under the influence of
cocaine, and underscores
why public health officials and physicians should
be ensuring that
cocaine users
are supplied with condoms to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted disease,» says Matthew Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
While the subjective effects of nicotine and
cocaine are very different in humans, the overlapping effects of the two drugs on the reward system of the brain may explain
why both
are highly addictive substances, the researchers said.
It
's why nearly 30 percent of American adults have a drinking problem, and the reason
why more than 22 million others using mood - altering drugs like marijuana,
cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens and inhalants — all in a desparate attempt to somehow cope with stress.
Sugar
is eight times as addictive as
cocaine and this a major reason
why we eat vast quantities of it.
Low dopamine levels that occur when trying to get off of heroin,
cocaine, cigarettes, sex and sugar addictions
are why it can
be so difficult (3, 4).
Perhaps this
is why Silva's wacky witty comedy about an obnoxious and impatient American traveling around Chile snorting
cocaine and longing for the infamous San Pedro (a drug produced from cacti), feels horribly aimless.»
To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical dividend growth investor if they would
be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack
cocaine, the answer would probably
be «absolutely not» regardless of the yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts
are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it
is and go on about
why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason
why I
'm asking
is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they
are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.
It highlights the comedic strengths and deficiencies of sitcoms like The Cosby Show (
why was there no mention of crack
cocaine or the AIDS crisis?).
The issue of balancing conflicting «freedoms»
is precisely
why we have traffic rules, and
why we don't allow the sale of crack
cocaine.
That
's why cocaine is so addictive.
One crack
cocaine sentencing reduction issue that I still don't fully understand
is:
why not make the sentences equal for equal amounts?