14 Drug withdrawal.
That brings up one of the cruelest ways that bodies can trick their owners—drug withdrawal. Though a person may be hurting themselves with cocaine, heroin or just alcohol, cutting it out of their behavior is not just difficult because of their mental dependency on it, but how their body reacts to being without it. From flu-like symptoms to tremors to seizures, a body can react in extreme ways when the controlled substances it’s used to receiving are cut off—convincing its owner to continue doing things they know they shouldn’t.
