Excellent post Samseau.
I did not know about the Rat Park studies, but they make sense. I read a couple of times about the experiences of some highly intelligent ex heroin and LSD junkies that they described dropping even that drug just as a habit where you have medium withdrawal symptoms for 1 to 2 weeks. Actually it's more of one week.
The problem lies in our social perception of drugs and substance addiction:
http://www.orange-papers.org/orange-effectiveness.html (about the negative effectiveness of current addiction programs like AA)
It is similar to the stupid AA mantra where you claim that you are utterly defenseless against the addiction and that any drop can mean a falling off the wagon. That way you reinforce in humans the utter helplessness.
The reality is that we can simply change the cycle by saying, that you can resist it. The best therapy would probably be:
1. Get plenty of rest, good food and sunshine
2. Be surrounded by people you love and that you love yourself
3. Address your personal issues aside from the drugs - best in a loving environment
4. Reinforce in yourself the belief that you can master a drug and that the withdrawal symptoms are nothing. Even if you use again, then know that you can rise above it easily.
5. High dosage vitamins - especially B-group injections have been highly effective against curbing the desire for substances for 2 weeks after just one injection (they also almost eliminated the initial 1-2 week withdrawal symptoms). Actually the founder of AA wanted to put that point into the program in the 1970s after he found out about it, but the sheisters of course refused it.
That is why Allen Carr's idea of breaking the alcohol addiction is simply to become a casual normal drinker again and not claim that you are an alcoholic for life and will be powerless against the addiction until you die:
In addition I am certain that the elite wants a large part of the population to be drug addicted. But they also want to earn their 500 bio. $ in the heroin and cocaine trade (guarding poppy fields in Afghanistan and using the CIA - cocaine import agency). At Wallstreet it is well known that the government has a huge cut in the drug trade - banks like Wells Fargo get busted occasionally as they launder the drug money. And I am sure that they are not the only one out there.
We also should keep in mind that up until the 1930s pretty much every drug was legally available in apothecaries in the US and other countries. There were hardly any millions of addicts out there. Cocaine, heroine, opium, weed - everything was freely available. Yes - there were some opium dens, but again as in the Rat Park studies - those individuals were broken and mostly isolated. Today they would be drunks or meth addicts which is much worse.
Personally I would instantly completely open the market for weed, coca leaves & cocaine. I would legalize the rest like opium, heroine, LSD etc. but would regulate it severely so that you could get it for production cost at the apothecary. That way it would become literally a market that any medium chemical company could produce - you couldn't make any money off it and the current war on drugs mayhem would stop. But that is unrealistic, because in such a world we would already have a highly different economic and scientific system and the current elite would lose control sooner or later.
Still - it is good to know for any forum member who slips into substance abuse that he can go through it in a much more easier and more effective way.