• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Addiction ruins lives, like practically everything that triggers dopamine, gambling can be very addictive.

      Addicts are going to find an addiction, it’s part of their wiring. You can change your addiction to another less harmful addiction, or rewire yourself with a lot of work.

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        That’s not really true. Anyone can become addicted to something. There’s not some “addict wiring” that some people are born with and some aren’t. Obviously some things increase your risk factor for addiction, like having ADHD or a traumatic childhood, but even those are correlations, not causation.

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          There’s not some “addict wiring” that some people are born with and some aren’t

          There absolutely is and you named three examples of it in this comment lol

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            2 months ago

            That would imply that every ADHDer or trauma survivor is an addict. Again, correlation is not causation.

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              2 months ago

              That’s like saying not everyone with fair skin gets skin cancer. (And we’re only talking about correlation here, nobody said anything about causation.)