Sports Card Addiction Is Slowly Coming Out of the Shadows Article

[raulus]

Originally Posted by todeen

I knew a man who got down to one cigarette a day but couldn't stop because he needed it to go poop. If he didn't smoke on the toilet he got constipated.

Sounds like it's for medicinal purposes, which I'm pretty sure is permitted.

[ClementeFanOh]

I read the article and every post afterward. The article itself states that
sports card purchasing doesn't meet the parameters/definition of "addiction",
which was my initial feeling upon reading the first post. Lots of people do
unwise/unproductive/counterproductive things repeatedly- but does that
make the behavior "addictive"? No. My wife likes to unwind after work by
watching an hour of game shows. She does that almost every weeknight,
but I've not been tempted to call it an addiction. There's no financial cost
there, so how about folks who burn money on "toys" and underuse them?
RVs, boats, premium watches/jewelry, the list goes on, and they eventually
realize it's wasted money. But is it an addiction?

There seems to be a societal trend to try to classify/quantify almost every
behavior with some sort of clinical nomenclature. Bad choices don't always,
or even often, equate to addiction. My 2 pennies... Trent King