The Addiction Vaccine

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/health/04vaccine.html?scp=4&sq=addiction&st=cse


    This article talks about the idea of having a vaccine that will prevent people from having addictions. It says that when they get it to work it will help smokers to not feel anything when they light up a cigarette, or for people who are addicted to cocaine to not have any of the pleasant feelings they would normally have without the vaccine.  They say this is working with rats, but do you think it is possible to work on humans? If it does work then what would be the effects on the community? What are some of the positive things that could come out of it? What about the negative effects?

    Do you think it is ethical to be conducting animal testing for something that seems to be extremely doubted and unnecessary? Do you think people with addictions that take this vaccine would then have the ability to get addicted to the vaccine itself? Would addiction then primarily be taken care of in hospitals rather than in therapy like settings?

Addicted to Performance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LY5Z6tyrY8

    Dressing and acting like a baby is something that not many people would consider doing. It is very strange, but would you consider it an addiction? If this is an addiction then does that mean that anything that we tend to do on a daily basis can be considered an addiction? Do you think that life experiences, such as Riley deciding to become a women, impact the things that people become addicted to?

    Though the fact that this woman desires to lead her life as a baby do you think it is fair to say she is addicted to acting like one in comparison to other more serious and traumatic addictions? How do you think this "addiction" affects her daily life? Would you ultimately consider this a habit or an addiction? And what do you consider is the difference that separates the two?