(Friend of the blog and favorite gentleman caller DuWayne Brayton of Traumatized by Truth has asked me to post this plea to participate in his research project. Frankly, I do not know why, since I'm positive that my influence over my beloved readership is laughably non-existent. But I see no harm in it. And I myself had fun trying to squish my unaided concept of addiction into two eloquent sentences . . . even though I failed . . .)
I would appreciate it if you could help me out with a research paper on addiction. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, addiction costs U.S. taxpayers more than five hundred billion dollars a year. Addiction affects more than sixty-three percent of Americans, either because they're an addict, or because their life is closely intertwined with that of an addict. Seems rather important, right?
Well as important as it is, we are trying to deal with it without a cohesive, coherent definition of the word "addiction." Language largely defines reality, yet when it comes to addiction, it seems to fail us. In my research, I have managed to find four contradictory definitions of addictions from the U.S. government alone - two from the same agency. Lest you think that this is just another example of government inadequacy, I have found the same problems in the real world.
So here is how you can help; Please give me your definition of "addiction." I am looking for one, maybe two sentence, concise definitions. What do you believe addiction means? You can leave them in comments (though if you do, please post it before reading anyone else's) or email me at duwayne.brayton (at) gmail (dot) com. I will be using the information I gather in a couple of research papers and will also write about it on my blog.
Thanks,
DuWayne
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