I have a question I couldn’t find in the search. I’m not sure if I am wrong with this question, but I thought using methadone in our time awake, it would change us into addiction. If that’s true, why does using it in general aesthesia in a surgery, not do the same thing? When they wake up, why does that not make people into addicts?
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Additions are formed (More or less), when you choose a substance to improve something about your life. They usually suffer from a feedback loop.
Something in your life is bad, don’t resolve it, use the drug instead to make your life good. Once the drug wears off, life is bad again, use the drug, and now its good.
Unfortunately the period of time where you feel good gets shorter and shorter, and the way that you feel in the bad time gets worse and worse. Until you are just using the drug just to feel normal, and you really don’t get much benefit.
Using a drug like that in a controlled situation where you are not making any decisions, makes it much harder for it to get into your reward processing and decision making afterwards.
BUT if they send you home with opioids, then that can cause the feedback loop.
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