Could there exist a non-addictive drug giving the same pleasure as heroin?

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I'd also say, the answer is No, "without being addictive, at all," is impossible because everything pleasurable is addictive. We have sex addiction, food addiction, exercise addiction, porn addiction, gambling addiction, gaming addiction, just to name a few that are legal and have been academically studied. Notice none of those are physically addicting (not even the food), but they all cause very similar (or identical) changes in the brain in terms of releasing endorphins. Heroin and cocaine are the masters of this release, but consider the proof by extremes here: We have people that are seeing and paying psychologists to help them break their sex addiction, which has any chemical component whatsoever, Because this is interfering with their work (repeatedly missing in action, late, distracted), their marriage (about to end, with custody hearings for kids), and their lifelong friendships and extended family life.

Now as pleasurable as sex may be, rock stars and sports stars that can have all the partners they want, as many as they want at a time, still say heroin blows sex away in the magnitude of the euphoria.

Chemical dependence is not the main feature of addiction, anything just like cocaine will most certainly be very highly addictive, and still destroy people's finances, relationships, and lives, still lead to the same lies, cover-ups, and crimes to feed the addiction. There is no way to make anything that is pleasurable "not addictive at all".

posted over 7 years ago