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Fetishes/Substance Abuse : the 'Withdrawal' and the positive insights from it

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 I equate fetishes and substance abuse as the Set/Subsets of each other. Substance abuse is just the tangible form of fetishes, the psychological initiating expression for the substance abuse. For that reason I want to talk about fetishes to show its connection to substance abuse. The conventional definition for fetishes is: A fetish (derived from the French fétiche ; which comes from the Portuguese feitiço ; and this in turn from Latin facticium , "artificial" and facere , "to make") is an object believed to have supernatural powers, or in particular, a human-made object that has power over others. Essentially, fetishism is the attribution of inherent value, or powers, to an object.  The "attribution of inherent value, or powers, to an object' is not confined/restricted to a 3-dimensional object. It can be to an intangible entity. Your favorite TV-show/video, music or anything else with which a sensation is precipitated by the thought of it is, IM