So I was thinking about addiction the other day and I wondered:
If you were studying someone without their knowledge and had pretty much complete control over their environment and slowly got them addicted to heroin by adding it to various items they consumed, sometimes their coffee, sometimes their salad, sometimes their chewing gum, etc. how would the addiction affect them? They wouldn't be able to identify the source of the addictive substance, so what would they crave? If you slowly weaned them off would they be as likely as your average heroin addict to start using again? I mean, they wouldn't even know it was heroin they were addicted to. Would it be something that could easily be triggered, like if they got some lortab after a dentist visit or something they would go full blown nuts for the stuff immediately?
Maybe it's a dumb question. I don't know. Was just curious.
If you were studying someone without their knowledge and had pretty much complete control over their environment and slowly got them addicted to heroin by adding it to various items they consumed, sometimes their coffee, sometimes their salad, sometimes their chewing gum, etc. how would the addiction affect them? They wouldn't be able to identify the source of the addictive substance, so what would they crave? If you slowly weaned them off would they be as likely as your average heroin addict to start using again? I mean, they wouldn't even know it was heroin they were addicted to. Would it be something that could easily be triggered, like if they got some lortab after a dentist visit or something they would go full blown nuts for the stuff immediately?
Maybe it's a dumb question. I don't know. Was just curious.