Nils Bejerot
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(September 21, 1921 in Stockholm - November 29, 1988)
Nils Bejerot stressed instead five other factors that causes that increase the risk of the individual and to an epidemic drug use
* Availability of the addictive substance
* Money to acquire the substance
* Time to use the substance
* Example of use of the substance in the immediate environment
* A permissive ideology in relation to the use of the substance.[12]
Bejerot advanced the hypothesis that when addiction supervenes it is no longer a symptom but a morbid condition of its own; its development will not be affected by removal of the initiating factors. Addiction has the strength and character of a natural drive: it may be considered as an artificially induced drive developed through chemical stimulation of the pleasure center.
He compared addiction with a very deep love.
Addiction is "an emotional fixation (sentiment) acquired through learning, which intermittently or continually expresses itself in purposeful, stereotyped behavior with the character and force of a natural drive, aiming at a specific pleasure or the avoidance of a specific discomfort"[13]
This would however not be interpreted as drug addiction was impossible to treat. The abuse was learned, it is also possible to relearn, learn how to live without drugs.
" . . . we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil . . . "
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