Stephen Jennings

There have been researches done into addiction that i saw on the BBC, and they found that all the cocaine addicts tested in a continuing study, had a dopamine deficiency. It stated that 10% of the human population had this deficiency, and it correlated with the fact that out of everybody who drank alcohol 10% became addicts. Is addiction a result of a life event, or simply just a chemical imbalance in the brain? or better still could addiction be causing the deficiency?

Thank you. It is good, but it would be a lot better if i was working. I almost feel guilty in a way for taking from society through social benefits, but feel caught between a rock and a hard place. I payed taxes and have grafted, but at the moment i'm stuck with no prospects, i mean we get 30k a year benefits and we cannot save more than 3k or it would be stopped. It is more than enough to get by, but the walls stopping you progress are frustrating to say the least, i cannot even save, get a mortgage, all because of mistakes made by a government run organisations like the NHS. Being born into a society in the 80's where you had no option but to rely on NHS. I grafted to get out of poverty to a livable situation, but now i'm stuck here unable to further it.

Hi and welcome. What is your own conflict with your military existence?

Sorry that wasn't my intention, but thank you anyway.... now i have a lot of catching up to do

Welcome, i'm new here and looking for the same thing. I'm liking the ancient history interest, it's my favourite subject and quite frankly fascinates me, so hopefully we can learn who we are, and where we came from at the same time.

Hi everyone, my name is Stephen. Firstly i would like to explain a little about myself. I was born in 1981 in a mining village called Kinsley in Yorkshire, i grew up through the strikes and witnessed the poverty. We had chickens in our council house back garden, and my father took me stealing potatoes from farmers fields, if all else failed we still had egg and chips for tea. My father turned to drink after and during the strikes, and became verbally and physically abusive, because of this i was brought up in a single parent household, from the age of 8. At secondary school age, it was noticed that i was a full year ahead of the other children, but i was constantly in trouble, fighting, playing the fool and general misbehavior. Because of my attitude i applied little effort to my opportunity, and in high school this showed, i sat 12 higher tier G.C.S.E's, i did no course work and i didn't revise for one exam, even though being in the top set in every lesson, and being regarded as the most intelligent person in my year, i came out with barely C's. At the age of 17 my mother died, this coupled with my attitude at the time, lets just say my life spiraled downhill. I was an Heroin addict throughout my adolescence, and spent 2 and a half years in prison. When i was 22 i did a cold turkey and never looked back, at 23 i met my wife and learned a trade, plastering. We have 3 wonderful children, my son Jacob has a medical diagnosis of Asperger's and his mother cared for him. I was later diagnosed as Asperger's, maybe explains my past (potential discussion) I grafted and grafted, sometimes 7 days a week for nearly 10 years, determined to turn my life around. Then one day my wife collapsed, a simple test at birth was missed, an easily fixable defect, but because it went undetected until she was 27, she is now left disabled for life, it cannot be fixed now and she struggles to be a mother. The N.H.S position has been to put my wife on morphine for good. I have had to leave work to care for both my wife, and my son. Not being in work is driving me crazy, so i want to take my free time to learn, and i put myself at your mercy to correct me, enlighten me, and maybe even listen to me. It's time to put my potential to the test, i know very little about philosophy and i will do my best to catch up, so please be patient with me if you can, and i look forward to many topical debates in the future.