[oceanview]

please go back to bashing greenspan, you are effective on that.

the reason why you didn't become addicted is because your body chemistry is different. some people feel lightheaded after taking an Advil, others do not. There is a medical science to addiction, not everyone who uses cocaine becomes an addict, but many do. In the case of legal prescription drugs, its easy for people with chronic pain to become "trapped" in a vicious cycle.

[secretagent]

I wonder about the body chemistry argument.

If I believe in voodoo and someone says an enemy got hold of my fingernail clippings and cast a spell, I might make myself sick, and mistake the sickness for the "spell".

This would probably correlate with a change in my body chemistry, and a "spell researcher" taking blood samples, might even show the "spell induced" change.

If you don't believe in voodoo and someone says an ememy cast a spell, you wouldn't get sick, and the blood samples wouldn't show a change.

The spell researcher could conclude that spells affect people differently, possibly due to different body chemistries.

"The reason why you didn't become addicted is because your body chemistry is different. some
people feel lightheaded after taking an Advil, others do not. There is a medical science to addiction,
not everyone who uses cocaine becomes an addict, but many do."

And to complicate this, a possible "voodoo effect". People who believe in the power of addiction might stay addicted longer, due to their belief in the power of addiction.