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Dependence Deepens Until the System Cannot Function Without the Symptomatic Fix

Split out of shifting the burden because it is a separate testable claim (escalating dose plus withdrawal cost) and because it is what the worse-before-better lever in lev- attaches to. Rests on arc-shifting-the-burden; feeds lev-worse-before-better and lev-intervention-timing. Kept structural so it stays clear of the health and behavioural-science domain content the fence excludes.

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Shifting the Burden Archetype in Systems Thinking

Shifting the Burden is a systems thinking archetype describing a structural choice between a symptomatic solution (quick, addresses observed symptoms) and a fundamental solution (slower, addresses ro…