Why is it that some people don’t admit or take responsibility for destructive drug use?
I hate it when people say, “Oh, it’s a disease!”
when talking of alcoholism. I ADMIT it’s a disease. It’s a disease you can do something about! If you have pneumonia, you aren’t going to go out to a nudist resort in wintertime Iceland.
If you are diabetic, you won’t sit around, not exercise, never check your blood sugar, stuff your face with Chinese food etc. You won’t do these things if you take responsibility, that is.
WHen it comes to addiction, it’s no different. If you abuse drugs/alcohol, why just sit back and say it’s a lost cause because “addiction is a disease.” It IS. Only YOU can help yourself out of the depths of the disease, to where you can say you are recovering. I abuse Vicodin and Xanax……I might have a problem. But, I sure as hell will never say it was NOT a choice….
Okay, allo, I’m an idiot I suppose. Maybe you should change your name to Judge Judy…..as you so love to judge. I am speaking of taking pro-active steps to combat a disease. Name-calling doesn’t help.
I have three degrees, by the way, and am a MENSA member…..
racecar, I know that tidbit about the word already….Si me quieres hablar en otro idioma, te invito…….If you bothered to read the whole question with all the additional details, you’d realize that I may have my own problems. My argument is one of authenticity, and admitting the responsibility of full subjectivity. What is foolish is an assumption that just because I have this stance, that I cannot also allow for how difficult it is to defeat addiction. To finish the beginning of a sentence in “Butch Cassidy,” The total tonnage of what you don’t know would eclipse the number of atoms that constitute Jupiter.
Written by Admin on August 10th, 2009 with 5 comments.
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