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>> "And just like any addiction"

shrug I think most workaholics are workaholics because they enjoy their work.

I've also been told that heroin is enjoyable- but that's no excuse for that addiction either.

Heroin is extremely detrimental to your health.

I read quite a lot of autobiographies (business people, media), and pretty much all of them involve obsessive hard work. That's kinda why they're successful.

Not that I'm putting a stake into either side of this debate, but workaholism is clearly also extremely detrimental to your health; there are ways to abuse drugs while being careful about your health just like there are ways to work 70 hours a week and still take care of yourself --- it's just that in both cases people rarely pull it off.

Heroin is actually not that bad for your health per se -- it's the stretching agents that'll get you.

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