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| | Drug Addiction |
 | | Today, drug treatment and rehabilitation centers are typically operating on the belief that social or philosophical factors are causing the addictive behavior, and that if we could change an addict's belief system, or his social support structure we could end his addictive behavior. |
 | | Current theories on drug addiction suggest that an addict loses his balanced state of homeostasis by the drug use, and that he may or may not regain his previous homeostatic balance after a long period of abstention, possibly many times the length of his addictive behavior. |
 | | I have a different understanding of the relationship between the addict and his addiction, to the state of homeostasis: I theorize that those people who are predisposed to drug addiction, or who have an addictive personality, are in a content state of homeostatic imbalance before being exposed to drugs. |
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