Re: Bradley Wiggins

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

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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.

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<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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