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Addiction

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Updated and Verified: October 18, 2024 (News page records significant changes.)

Addiction is a social construct to describe certain choices and habits. The social construct of so-called addiction survives by the word-of-mouth of people who promote either or both (a) pharmacology, and (b) the ideology of psychiatry. Because addiction is fundamentally nothing more than a marketing slogan to promote either or both psychiatry and pharmacology, thus, one will notice that the various definitions of addiction never have an objective basis and instead, the definitions proceed from, and hover around, the worldviews of psychiatrists, pharmacists, and the shareholders of the multi-billion-dollar druggist corporations that pay for the vast majority of psychiatric and pharmacological research that promotes the social construct of so-called addiction. These corporations include the following (among others), along with their respective market capitalizations (in billions of dollars):

Thus, the total combined assets of these seven druggist corporations that promote the social construct of so-called addiction - is about 2.9 trillion dollars. This is more than the 2023 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of any country on earth, except the top seven.2

References

References

  1. Kindness D. Who are Pfizer’s (PFE) main competitors? Investopedia. September 29, 2024. Accessed October 17, 2024. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052015/who-are-pfizers-pfe-main-competitors.asp
  2. World Bank open data. World Bank Open Data. Accessed October 17, 2024. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD

Medical, Legal, and Metabolic Advice

Here in the USA, jurisdiction matters a lot. It is generally illegal and a bad idea for anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed physician to give medical advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed attorney to give legal advice, anyone but a jurisdiction-licensed nutritionist or registered dietician to give metabolic advice, and so forth. This website's information is generally incomplete to predict how applying it may affect a given visitor - because the effects depend on the person's unique circumstances and characteristics.

So, here is the only medical, legal, and metabolic advice on this website: None of this website is individualized medical, legal, or metabolic advice. It is general information. You should not try to apply any of this information to your life, unless you know what you are doing. Generally, the governments of USA's jurisdictions (states and territories) declare two things through law:

  1. Without the guidance of a jurisdiction-licensed physician, attorney, or nutritionist: you do not know what you are doing, so it is unwise and unsafe for you to make too many decision about your medical, legal, and metabolic status and circumstances, and
  2. no one but a licensed physician, attorney, or nutritionist can safely and effectively advise you about those statuses and circumstances - thus, it is generally illegal for anyone else to try.

Obviously, those standards are extremely conservative, if not heavy-handed. However, one should remember that many of those people in government who uphold such strict standards have seen the stuff of nightmares: predictable, preventable, terrible consequences when the least capable and least conscientious people make the worst decisions - whether medically, legally, nutritionally, or otherwise. So, it is not wildly unreasonable to promote - even to legally command - erring on the safe side. Still, various jurisdictions do provide some exceptions to those exceptionally strict standards under law.

Here in Minnesota (and in many other U.S. states and territories) a person can help you with certain aspects of your medical, legal, and metabolic status and circumstances - even when that person is not formally licensed by the jurisdiction. Minnesota, for example, allows various people besides licensed nutritionists and registered dieticians to give metabolic advice and guidance: certain Complementary and Alternative Health Care providers, which Minnesota allows under law. Minn. Stat. § 146A. Thus, one need not feel completely locked into the strict standards listed above (though jurisdictions do typically still hold alternative providers to certain basic standards under law). Instead, in the USA, one can discuss the information on this website, and receive guidance about it, from various experts - whether jurisdiction-licensed or not. Meanwhile, this thorough and smart-sounding notice and explanation should not tempt any visitor into having any extra trust for the information in this website. At most, as the saying goes: "trust but verify."

Sincerely,

Dr. R. Floyd Lindquist

Her Metabolism: Founder, Treasurer, Secretary, Lead Data Scientist, and Director of Communications and Research

PhD (Thanatology), PsyD (Psychology), DLP (Law and Policy), MPH (Nutrition & Epidemiology), MS (Nutrition), MA (Counseling)

floyd[at]hermetabolism[dot]org

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