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From: pxhxz@cadence.com
In article <_5ednVdfvqTIJ97XnZ2dnUVZ8gKdnZ2d@bt.com> "Aidy" writes:
>"M_P" wrote in message
>news:278d52dc-fc02-4ad1-9518-959828ced557@e20g2000vbc.googlegroups.com...
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>> According to research cited by the (U.S.) National Academy of
>> Science's Institute of Medicine, of those who have used heroin 77%
>> have never been dependent on it.
>I'm not talking about people "who have used", I am talking about people who
>*do* use.
Yes, and not all users are addicts.
>I'm not talking about "dependent", I'm talking about addicted. Hardly
>anyone who smokes will say they are dependent on cigs and I bet most
>alcoholics say they're not dependent on booze....they "just like a drink is
>all".
The majority of alcohol users are not alcoholics. And there are people who
use tobacco who are also not addicted.
>And of course I can always use the cynic argument that it is less likely
>that addicts will submit to these studies so the stats are inaccurate.
Actually, if you do the research you can find accurate stats. It is *your*
purported stats that aren't accurate, Aidy.
-Pete Zakel
(phz@seeheader.nospam)
"`Creation science' has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and
so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because
good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be more
destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire
intellectualy heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing honorable
teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a
doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general
understanding of science as an enterprise?"
-Stephen Jay Gould, "The Skeptical Inquirer", Vol. 12, page 186
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