It doesn't enter the bloodstream fast enough?
2007-03-10 03:11:28 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
This is what Russell Barkley, the ADHD expert, says in response to allegations that ritalin and other things could be addictive. Guess it just shows how these people are so desperate and obsessed that they are willing to tell outright falsehoods with a good chance that other people will notice. I thought it was the most idiotic thing I've ever heard tto, I'm a medical student.
2007-03-11 17:50:05 · update #1
Besides smoking (marijuana, crack, cigarettes), addictive drugs can also be drunk (alcohol for example) or absorbed (nicotene patches for example) or just held in the mouth (chewing tobacco, snuff). Actually, substances can be absorbed into the bloodstream quite quickly beneath the tongue.
2007-03-10 03:20:50 · answer #1 · answered by willtme 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All it takes for any 'drug' to be 'addictive' is the 'chance' that a person will need to take 'more and more' of that drug to get the same effect as the 'original dosage' gave. I am on prescription Vicodin for 'pain' ... and if I was 'addicted to it' I would be taking 'forty or fifty' pills a day, to 'completely relieve' the pain in my back and hips. I've had the same 'scrip' for almost three years now, and still take 'less than three pills a day' ... so I am 'not addicted' but the drug I take is still 'addicting' ... and I 'swallow it' ... so 'injection and sniffing' are 'contributors to' addiction happening, but the 'drug' does not 'have to be' injected or sniffed to become an 'addiction.'
2007-03-10 03:23:04 · answer #2 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Stuff gets into your bloodstream very quickly through your lungs. I've taken a hit of Salvia before and been high before I even pulled the bong from my lips. Also, crack is addictive and it's usually smoked. If a drug is known to be addictive, then changing how you use it isn't going to effect that.
2007-03-10 03:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by Doyle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Many drugs in pill form are addictive, which is why you cant just walk into a drugstore and buy them. Also tobacco, which is usually smoked but can be addictive in it's "smokeless" forms.
2007-03-10 03:22:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are also plenty of drugs in pill form that are addictive. Sleepy times, pain killers, and don't worries, are a few that fall into that class.
2007-03-10 03:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by John H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some addicts like the rush, but no. The large majority of addicts prefer their drugs by mouth.
2007-03-10 05:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consider the nicotine patch--this is neither inhaled or injected--it is absorbed through the skin. And nicotine is considered to be more addictive than cocaine.
2007-03-10 03:54:22 · answer #7 · answered by williamh772 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Some drugs are addictive in pill form, such as oxycontin.
2007-03-10 03:19:41 · answer #8 · answered by lj1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course not. The best examples are:
marijuana - smoked, eaten
tobacco - smoked, chewed
alcohol - drunk
caffeine - drunk
2007-03-10 07:14:15 · answer #9 · answered by arbiter007 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is false....
These days heroin can be made pure enough to smoke, cocaine can be smoked, and crystal meth can be smoked, all of which are highly addictive.
2007-03-10 03:17:32 · answer #10 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋