The summary I heard leans me towards the interpretation that he realized he was going to fail at going cold turkey and tried doing an induced coma to sidestep the chemical withdrawal suffering.

THAT is what I look down on.

That he tried to take an easy way out instead of spending weeks on end confronting the constant fight between compulsion and will. When I've seen plenty of evidence to the contrary that people who have actually resolved to do a thing, they won't be stopped. This is how people can voluntarily starve themselves to death. Will is stronger than compulsion. If you have decided.

There are people who are capable of taking their experienced pain and suffering and turning it into more conviction that pushes them on to suffer even more. Jordan Peterson is not such a person.

The summary I heard leans me towards the interpretation that he realized he was going to fail at going cold turkey and tried doing an induced coma to sidestep the chemical withdrawal suffering.

THAT is what I look down on.

That he tried to take an easy way out instead of spending weeks on end confronting the constant fight between compulsion and will. When I've seen plenty of evidence to the contrary that people who have actually resolved to do a thing, they won't be stopped. This is how people can voluntarily starve themselves to death. Will is stronger than compulsion. If you have decided.

The summary I heard leans me towards the interpretation that he realized he was going to fail at going cold turkey and tried doing an induced coma to sidestep the chemical withdrawal suffering.

THAT is what I look down on.

That he tried to take an easy way out instead of spending weeks on end confronting the constant fight between compulsion and will. When I've seen plenty of evidence to the contrary that people who have actually resolved to do a thing, they won't be stopped.