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Psychiatric treatments return a person to a baseline that can be managed with therapy or healthy coping mechanisms.

Chasing a high is not a treatment, it merely defers the problem. As tolerance to the high builds, patients lose the therapeutic value but have gained crippling dependency and addiction.



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