Originally Posted by
dwtbd 
All the scientific knowledge currently being collected and what ever else may be learned about causes of addiction are purely academic. And will have no effect on the guaranteed solution.
Knowing what a neuron is has little to no effect on someone who after vomiting due to over indulgence repeats those same actions. Intoxication feels good, how individuals deal with that is what matters.
Focusing on causes is a way to get further from the solution.
This is of course entirely correct, but I am certain that it will soon be besieged by a litany of "whatever works!"
It is much like the Anatabuse debate.
Of course, taking get-sick drugs doesn't really "work" in the conventional sense of the word, any more than any coercive method does in any sphere of life, which is sparingly, with great resentment, and not for the long term.
Get-sick drugs are pure AV, and their prescription another slice of evidence for the state-run, psycho-therapeutic medical complex that encourages drunkards in their worst behavior - the hypochondria, the dependence, the desperate desire for attention, the always bumbling around causing problems, whining about not being able to drink and then collapsing in tears when they don't get enough back-pats for not doing so.