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To: UnwashedPeasant

Does it work for food craving?


64 posted on 09/12/2015 11:50:38 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome
"Does it work for food craving?"

Maybe.

Overeating and overdrinking are both behavior disorders.

If the behavior disorder is compelled by a certain genetic disorder, the Naltrexone would remove that part of the compulsion.

68 posted on 09/12/2015 12:50:03 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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To: Vendome; UnwashedPeasant; LonePalm
Does it work for food craving?

Yeah, how about for computer games?

I had the good fortune of being raised in a teetotaling religion, with several alcoholic in-laws of a different faith to provide frequent object lessons in the dangers of alcohol. But being of Irish descent, the addiction gene is still there, and I have to be "in recovery" from a number of bad habits like eating or marathon web surfing — even compulsions like overbuying the same items every time I'm at the grocery "just in case" and then having to throw half of them out. It's a daily process. Al-Anon and ACOA (Adult Children of Alcoholics — only for me it was "grandchild of alcoholics") helped me get a handle on it; and AA has helped one of my alcoholic friends transformatively.

Point being, that even the children of dry parents can still have the genetic make-up and must understand and monitor their behaviors accordingly. I read an article once that said that the children of Methodist and/or Baptist teetotalers are very vulnerable to becoming alcoholics if when they leave home and start experimenting with drinking, because they have little experience with it. So I guess my alcoholic granddads and uncles were a blessing in disguise. It was no fun watching the distress and destruction their behaviors caused.

73 posted on 09/12/2015 1:15:37 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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