You just can't spit the bit... Typical junkie... You are owned, and you know it... If you ever actually go towards recovery, we can talk about the disease of drug addiction. Until then, I know, and you know, that all the stuff is just crap to rationalize not facing the mental disorder you suffer from. You are still looking for some fix and explanation and rationalization...and not looking into your own soul to see the damaged person looking back at you...
http://psychcentral.com/news/2008/05/08/brains-of-people-with-depression-different/2253.html <i>Scans show untreated depressed people have fewer serotonin and opioid receptors, and that variation is linked to symptoms and treatment response. But the research also showed the numbers of these receptors can vary greatly from person to person.</i>
The research will also show other physiological and psychological factors in common, as well as the fact that so called "cures" like Bupe and others don't work with a high success rate long term for heroin junkies... This thinking that "I am a junkie, and I can just take some pill to not be a junkie" is part of the insanity of the disease. The resident ET Town junkie compared his drug addiction to a diabetic who has to take insulin. What an insult to diabetics. Diabetics will tell you that they have to not only take insulin but they have to alter their lifestyle/diet and change their thinking in many cases...and the drug addict thinks the solution to his problems is going to come by taking a pill and not changing lifestyle or thinking? Diabetics will die without insulin. Well, heroin addicts don't die if they don't fix, no matter how much they might feel like dying while going through detox and withdrawal. This is the part that the resident ET Town junkie refuses to accept, in part due to the impact of the disease on the mind's ability to cope with the pain of living on life's terms, and also in part due to his own self created junkie thinking...
I believe his point was that he identified a possible neurophysiological explanation for depression that doesn't rely on seratonin, not that bupe is the only solution. Replace "a junkie" with "depressed" and you have the major, generally-accepted, paradigm shift that has already occurred in psychiatric medicine over the last decade. The only difference, in this case, is the receptor.
"a possible neurophysiological explanation for depression that doesn't rely on seratonin, not that bupe is the only solution." Bupe was not the solution for the ET Town junkie, even though he was sure it was. In fact, he was playing doctor telling people that he could "hook them up" with bupe. Is it a wonder he was busted for H? A depressed condition is quite different from an H junkie's condition... I am talking about the ET Town junkie... I doubt that any pill based/chemical miracle will be found for general depression... Depression is a world wide human phenomena which has been around since the beginning...