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The section on drug abuse withdrawal is highly inaccurate if not guess work. Can anything cite this? The statement that all drugs affect dopamine is ridiculous, along with the statement that says the brain will be eventually devoid of all pleasure. This seems like it was taken from unscientific low level propaganda. |
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Confusion
This page confuses physical dependence with addiction, which is a purely psychological phenomenon. Physical dependence on, e.g., an opioid used for pain control does *NOT* imply addiction, and conversely it is quite possible to become psychologically addicted to drugs (e.g., marijuana) that induce little or no physical dependence. If there is no objection I propose to rewrite this article to make this distinction clear.
That would be great if you could do a rewrite. I would humbly suggest dividing the document into Psychological Withdrawal and Physical Withdrawal. You may want to coordinate this with the discussion on Talk:Addiction -- Tim 01:57, 2004 Oct 9 (UTC)
- If someone could pin down the difference between physiological and psychological withdrawal I would be pleased and impressed, but, quit honestly, I don't think that there IS one. In both cases, your brain gets X chronically and re-wires in order to reach a new homeostasis; when X is removed that homeostasis is lost, resulting in nasty side-effects. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.68.239.5 (talk) 21:09, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
Economics
I would like someone to explain the economic meaning of this word.
- Simple! You cannot bear the withdrawal symptoms, buy a pack of fags and the tobacco industry rejoices! -- 194.89.2.109 16:57, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
DSM-IV
There are criteria for withdrawl established for different drugs in the DSM-IV TR. Those should also be considered part of this article. 70.48.159.12 16:43, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
All meanings of the word withdrawal?
Dear all, I am from Sweden and my mother tounge is therefore Swedish. My level of English is faily good. However, my fellow countymen here at work are mostly not that skilld. It very often ends up with direct translations that makes it more "Swinglings" than anything else... Mostly understandable, but clearly not correct. I just came across the word withdrawal in a form we use internally but regularly distribute to customers worldwide. I felt that this must be the wrong word, but couldn´t come up with the right word. Therefore I wanded to check what meanings Wikipedia (the English site) described. Perhaps I am wrong this time (most unlikely...). But can not withdrawal describe "pulling back from a market" or retreating troups for example.
I loved the comment on the economic meaning! (Of course it means "withdrawing money from the hole in the wall (ATM) to by the fags...?)) However I would appreciate some serious comments (Im I wrong or not to start with).
I am not suited to re-write the article, it should be done by someone with higher qualifications in the English language (British such preferably for me).
I will now find the answer I want elsewhere...
Inaccurate
The section on drug abuse withdrawal is highly inaccurate if not guess work. Can anything cite this? The statement that all drugs affect dopamine is ridiculous, along with the statement that says the brain will be eventually devoid of all pleasure. This seems like it was taken from unscientific low level propaganda.