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. . . My father worked with drug addicts and alcoholics for decades, and the fact is that no-one, NO-ONE has yet got a satisfactory definition or measurement for addiction. We know some drugs are more addictive than others; we know that some people will try a drug once or twice, become "addicted" and will then kill their own spouse and children for the drug. Others will use the same drug for forty years, being reasonably productive and stable, then quit overnight.
I think that addiction, or addictive tendencies, is an indivisibile part of consciousness itself, and it is undefinabl/unmeasurable for the same reason that self-awareness is. We know both of them exist, but their true nature and causes as yet escape us.
The other thing I know is that NO drug-enforcement effort in HISTORY has EVER succeeded. Human beings have an instinctive ownership of their bodies and their consciousness, and therefore what they choose to put in their bodies and how they choose to affect their consciousness.
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