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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
You can't. Because some things simply cannot be fixed without them. Case in point: A few years ago I came down with a major case of hives. I was put on Prednisone to fix it. All the willpower and positive thinking in the world was not going to get rid of it. Did you know you can DIE from freaking hives? Anyway, Prednisone is a pretty strong steroid. For me, it saved my ass. For others, it is something to be abused.
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Strange, getting out of a bad situation and moving back to Phoenix a few years ago cured my hives. Not kidding at all. Nothing all the prednisone, benadryl shots, claritin, and Vistaril (a prescription anti-anxiety that given in high enough doses acts as an anhistamine) could do. Ask anyone who saw me at the time, hives on about 60% of my body and they were in my mouth as well, the doctor wanted to hospitalize me since he was afraid they were going into my throat and I might asphyxiate before they could get them down.
Drugs are no more or less than what you make of them, as I said, I dont really care what people do to themselves as long as they aren't hurting others -- and yes, I realize that fucking yourself up to the point you become an addict does hurt other people, but that's not my point -- the bottom line as I see it was perfectly proven at breakfast a couple weeks ago... the table next to us was a table of 'addicts' -- all they could talk about was sponsoring, NA, AA, etc... quite clearly, as the one person at their table with some sense pointed out, they had simply tranferred their addictions to the program, nothing was cured in them.
Some people smoke -- I'm guilty -- some people drink -- I'm guilty -- some people do drugs -- hell, I'm 35 and not going to say I've never done any, especially when I was younger -- some people are workaholics -- sometimes I'm guilty -- you name it -- people get used to, and then addicted to certain things in their lives -- be it driving over the speed limit, be it excercising an excessive amount -- let's not forget Jim Fixx, even though he died of a heart attack...
My longwinded point is that it's pretty silly to be throwing stones at other people unless you are living in a concrete bunker and never come up for fresh air.