+252 If you know anything about addiction, it annoys you to no end when people confuse a chemical addiction with psychological addiction or mental addiction. Only certain things such as cocaine, nicotine, and heroine are chemically addictive. PUDDING can be mentally addictive. amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A point I've made many times on this site =) agreed 100x.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There's a recent study just linked the two. You can have a CHEMICAL ADDICTION to food. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/food-addiction-brain_n_844931.html

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Unless a person has actually had both types of addiction (i.e. a drug addiction and, perhaps, a sexual addiction) we can't really say what it's like. I have no idea what it's like to be addicted to cocaine or to be addicted to food, as I'm sure most other people don't.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I read a study where they gave food addicts methadone and it helped satiate their cravings for food because the same hormones were released.

by Anonymous 12 years ago