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   From: jonescardiff@btinternet.com   
      
   Immortalist wrote:   
   > The contemporary medical model   
   > attributes addiction, in part, to changes in the brain's mesolimbic   
   > pathway.   
      
   Thank god my brain mesolimbic pathways are rigidly fixed then.   
      
   > Within the disease model of addiction, a genetic predisposition is   
   > believed to be present.   
      
   Thank god I don't have a genetic predisposition then.   
      
   > An environmental event is also felt likely to   
   > be required.   
      
   Thank god no environmental effects happen to me then.   
      
   > These hypotheses would explain the result of adoption and   
   > twin studies that have been carried out, indicating that twins   
   > separated at birth have a higher likelihood of concordance for   
   > addictive disease than would be expected were there not a genetic   
   > component,   
      
   Thank god I don't have genetic components then.   
      
      
   > A disease is a complex relationship between the genetic makeup of the   
   > individual and the environment   
      
   Thank god I don't have a complex relationship between my genetic makeup   
   and my environment then.   
      
   > that results in an abnormal state of   
   > physiology (called pathophysiology) reflected in signs and symptoms.   
   > Those signs and symptoms follow a predictable pattern (called a   
   > natural history).   
      
   Thank god I don't have a predictable pattern or a natural history then.   
      
   > And that natural history has a predictable response   
   > to treatment.   
      
   Than god I don't have a natural history then. That's twice I've had to   
   say it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)