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Interestingly, one who did not tell the police was the moderator of the list, Dr. Rotgers (of, yes, Rutgers, where he is director of the program for Addiction, Consultation and Treatment).
The American Psychiatric Association doesn't classify sex addiction as a medical condition, but that doesn't prevent the pundits from making the diagnosis.
But the PDFA model offers only the salvation of abstinence or the perdition of addiction.
The most authoritative of the letters I received countering my explanation of “cold turkey” came from an M.D. who said that “the expression alludes to the `gooseflesh' or `duck bumps' that appear on the skin of persons withdrawing from addiction to opiates.
Concerns that opioid usage to manage symptoms will cause respiratory depression or hasten death (ie, an unintended effect), or cause addiction are not relevant.