You can play the sophist all you like, but the fact remains that I have first hand witnessed people get hooked on crack after their first hit. I've watched it. I watched them trying to come up with the money for their second. They generally end up having to "trade" for their next hit, and that is exactly what the pusher was trying to get them to do.
I very much doubt that you have as much experience in the drug underground as I have had. I know what i'm talking about because I've watched it live.
It’s supposed to be quite a rush. But that’s not an addiction. If they were addicted and he didn’t give them more they’d go through DTs, which they wouldn’t do. Not addicted, obsessed. You shouldn’t go believing gangsters who brag of turning girls out, they’re born prevaricators.
And here you are trying to spin it again. He wasn't bragging. I saw him talking up the girls, and a day or so latter they were his motel companions. (Crack Binges normally last three days.) A week later they were on the street selling their A$$.
You can say it wasn't real addiction, but it was the same or so close as makes no difference.
As I pointed out the plural of anecdote is not fact. Your “OG” is not proof. You’re “watching it” is not proof. The science of addiction is pretty well understood, and it does not happen on one shot. That’s not sophistry, that’s fact.
No DTs no addiction. There’s no such thing as “so close as makes no difference”, they’re either addicted, or they aren’t. And after one shot, they aren’t. And saying otherwise is lying.