This is a chemical that was found in heroin users' brains, known smokers w/o other addictions, and alcoholics (who had no record of using other drugs).
It is insidious in that in the normal person alcohol is processed differently and then passed out of the body through urine. In the alcoholic (and yes there are some people who become addicted almost from their very first drink) the alcohol is processed and becomes the THIQ.
THIQ creates an unimaginable craving for whatever created it in the first place be it legal drugs, tobacco, alcohol or heroin and to the non-addicted person it is hard to believe the power it holds.
From the article:
"1. THIQ is manufactured in the brain and only occurs in the brain of the alcoholic drinker. It is not manufactured in the brain of the normal social drinker of alcohol.
2. THIQ has been found to be highly addictive. It was tried in experimental use with animals during the Second World War when we were looking for a painkiller less addicting than morphine.
THIQ was a pretty good pain killer but t couldn't be used on humans. It turned out to be much more addicting than morphine.
3. Experiments have shown that certain kinds of rats cannot be made to drink alcohol.
Put in a cage with very weak solution of vodka and water, these rats refuse to touch it. They will literally thirst to death before they agree to drink alcohol.
However, if you take the same kind of rat and put a minute quantity of THIQ into the rat's brain -- one quick injection -- the animal will immediately develop a preference for alcohol over water.
4. Studies done with monkeys, our close animal relative in medical terms, show the following:
A. Once the THIQ is injected into a monkey's brain, it stays there.
B. You can keep the monkey dry, off alcohol, for 7 years. Brain studies show that THIQ remains in place in the brain."
Just enter THIQ and addiction and you will find many more links. The jury is still out, formally, but the data at this point many in the addiction field feels it is valid.
What is disheartening is that there isn't an antidote for THIQ that works enough of the time to be marketable (boy sounds like Lyme & co.)
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Fascinating. Does this have any relation to MTHFR? I've read that addiction is more common in those with MTHFR mutations.
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