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What's their angle? They seem to heavily imply that milk tea causes those mental health issues rather than those mental health issues potentially encouraging sufferers to have at least something to enjoy in their day. The wording does not seem to acknowledge merely the correlation but implies causation. Food therapy, caffeine addiction, etc. is a well-known phenomenon, how is this any different?

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milk has casomorphins which are opioids so I dunno not a stretch

Time to crack down on those poppyseed bagels.

... it's the sugar. It's always the sugar.

It's likely both. I would be vegan except I'm literally addicted to cheese.

Which would mean people should be addicted to milk in general and not necessarily to milk tea only. Chain of causation might be inverted here as parent suggests.

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