why is it that when an alcoholic stops drinking alcohol they become sick even though alcohol is incredibly bad for us, what is happening in our body that makes us sick for not having it?
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Can’t speak for alcohol but have plenty of experience with opiates and heroin. The simplest explanation is that that body is very good at regulating and adjusting itself. The normal baseline for heroin in a human body is (hopefully) zero. But when you put a lot of it in you for a long time, that becomes the new baseline. Then when you stop cold turkey, your body is essentially missing something that it thinks it needs. You experience withdrawals until it re-normalizes back down to zero. Its not very scientific, but it made sense to me while in rehab
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