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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I've kicked addiction to prescription pills, it took me 4 years. I'm speaking from personal experience in recovery. And since then I've drank alcohol, smoked weed, snorted blow and snorted and smoked meth and walked away from it all without having to pin the responsibility on the chemical. Addicts use what you are claiming as an excuse all the time. OH, I'm an addict, I'll always be one so pass me the rig.
Most all of us have shit we have to overcome to survive, putting the onus on the shit we cling to takes away the personal responsibility
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I would guess then that you are not a true addict.
People get hooked on prescription pills all the time. It is easy to do. Many people also get off of them. I know someone who got hooked on Nyquill then realized what they were doing and stopped doing it.
Someone who has a true addictive personality has a very difficult time controlling their use of whatever their drug of choice is. More than that they tend to focus that addiction in one way or another. A friend of mine was on some pretty hard drugs for several years. He tried a few times and eventually he got clean by focusing his energy on working out. Of course he couldn't just go to the gym for 30 minutes a day, he quickly became addicted to it and would go 3 hours a day. Now he works in the fitness industry so it all worked out for him. He has told me that he fears if he ever stopped working out he would focus that addictive personality towards something else and it could be be bad.
I'm not taking the personal responsibility away from it. I am simply saying for many addicts is a far more complex situation than just one day saying they are no longer going to do whatever the bad thing is. Theirs is a problem of regulation. They can't just have one drink or smoke one joint or do a little coke at a party. If they have one drink they will end up having 10 because the desire to do that overshadows everything else.
Like I said. It is a choice. Once a person is clean they can choose to give themselves the tools to deal with the urges when they come. When they fall off the wagon it isn't an excuse that they make up just because they wanted to get high, it is because they were weak and they let the desire to do this thing overcome them. They made a bad choice.