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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bradley Wiggins
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 14:37:53 -0400
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On 5/14/2025 12:16 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Wed, 14 May 2025 04:40:10 -0400, zen cycle
> <funkmasterxx@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/13/2025 7:47 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>>> On Tue May 13 17:01:33 2025 Roger Merriman  wrote:
>>>> AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>> https://www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20250513-cycling-great-wiggins-admits-cocaine-addiction-after-retiring
>>>>
>>>> He?s unfortunately being having a hard time, and has I believe been abused
>>>> as a child which doesn?t excuse but perhaps explains but he?s certainly in
>>>> a downward spiral.
> 
>>> Roger, addiction is entirely voluntary. Cocain is one of the easier addictive drugs to bnreak free of. So if he keeps his addiction it is on him.
>>
>> <gawd>
> 
> Actually, Tom is generally correct, as long as the circumstances
> follow those in the study.  For Bradley Wiggins, I didn't see any of
> the racial, ethnic, or social problems mentioned that might cause
> problems.  If there were any, there's no way I could determine if they
> were "voluntary".
> 
> "Probability and predictors of remission from lifetime nicotine,
> alcohol, cannabis, or cocaine dependence"  (Nov 2010)
> <https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3227547/>
> TL:DR Summary:
> <https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03194.x>
> 
> "Life-time cumulative probability estimates of dependence remission
> were 83.7% for nicotine, 90.6% for alcohol, 97.2% for cannabis and
> 99.2% for cocaine. Half of the cases of nicotine, alcohol, cannabis
> and cocaine dependence remitted approximately 26, 14, 6 and 5 years
> after dependence onset, respectively."
> 
  I was eyerolling in reference to the "entirely voluntary" part. 
Certain individuals have a higher risk of addiction than others. It 
isn't something that one can just quit because they want to.

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