[ExI] fermi paradox again, was: addiction

[Henry Rivera]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 12:38 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​<anders at aleph.se> wrote:
>
> > You need 100% addiction, not 95% (and in humans, most things that are
>> addictive only for about 5%).
>>
>
> I'd like to know where the 5% figure comes from.   I have to doubt that it
> applies to all areas of addiction and if it distinguishes between chemical
> dependency and psychological dependency.  bill w
>
> ​
>
> Prevalence data on developing dependence are included in the attached
article. I've seen newer data from NIDA, I think, and it's basically the
same.

-Henry
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