Let’s see if I can describe active addiction:
Hmmmm - it must start with craving.
No - craving would only weasel it's way in to the brain, the body, after drugs or alcohol had been used for awhile.
Knowing a specific delicious taste wouldn’t happen until after tasting something delicious.
So let’s back up -
when would the ‘first taste’ be?
As a teenager with the obligatory drink at the ‘legal age’?
But what about marijuana, pain pills, benzodiapines for anxiety?
No - any teens that I have known certainly have had some form of alcoholic beverage, marijuana - maybe prescribed medications.
OK, so I don’t know what I’m talking about.
That first ‘taste’ can’t be in childhood!
Surely drugs and alcohol would be kept away from children - wouldn’t they?
Oh, yeah there was that guy that started using crystal meth when he was seven, because his parents were dealers and it was all over the house. But his sister didn't get addicted, so where does that fit?
But babies? Surely there’d be no ‘first taste’ there.
Except - some babies have a teeny tiny taste of alcohol in their bottles to help them get to sleep. (In days gone by, a colic preparation had a pretty high alcohol content.)
Oh, I forgot -
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
Fetal Alcohol Effects,
Fetal Drug Effects
No ‘taste’ there, merely systemic effects that can haunt an individual’s life affecting learning, sleeping, and socializing - until an opportunity for a ‘first taste’ shows up.
In any or all of those years,
surely somebody would have taught their children
how to drink responsibly
not to use illegal drugs
to follow, to the letter, the doctor’s prescription.
Then if cravings occurred, it wouldn’t be a problem. Right?
“Between good sense and good taste there lies
the difference between a cause and it’s effect.”
~ Jean De La Bruyere
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