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		MaysonL on March 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal Kicking heroin addiction is nowhere near as hard or as dangerous as kicking alcohol addiction.

electromagnetic on March 16, 2009 [–]

If it's true alcohol addiction, but with alcohol psychological addiction usually presents long before physical addiction has completely taken over. Essentially heroin might kill you if you're a long time addict, but alcohol is pretty much guaranteed to kill you if you're a long time addict.

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