Is food addiction real?

Short answer is yes, by all accounts, and by my experience.

What does one do about it? That is not so easy. First, how much background needs to be included in any description of treatment, and followup? Let us start with the followup. One cannot return to the same environment that one became addicted in. That will logically result in failure and re-addiction. Yet we need to return home, or to a new home.

Much of addiction is about behavior, so we need to change our behavior. But if we do not live alone, we may require change in the behavior of others living in the same environment. We, I, cannot sit and watch TV with food adds, next to a person who munches all evening. A choice is required. But the choices are not convenient. So what would a solution look like?

Is the CIA Taxing Drug Lords?

Speculation:

Is the CIA taxing drug lords to generate additional revenue? It would not do to take down a taxed drug lord. Is that the real difficulty in fighting the drug business?