Is drug addiction a disease or simply a choice that we make?
it's a choice that becomes a disease....at least that's the way it seemed to
me. A bad choice wrecked my daughter's brain chemistry, which turned to
disease. And yet, I can never be sure.
me. A bad choice wrecked my daughter's brain chemistry, which turned to
disease. And yet, I can never be sure.
Hey, Darin, just saw a thread on this topic that was bumped up...you may want to check it out...you git. 2ff
I think its a disease untill you trigger it.
I think??????
I think??????
Using drugs is a choice, addiction is a disease.
You have to choose to take drugs tobecome addicted, but no-onme ever takes a drug with the intention if becoming an addict.
You have to choose to take drugs tobecome addicted, but no-onme ever takes a drug with the intention if becoming an addict.
I have already posted on this as above.
It would also be a choice untill you trigger off the disease.
So i would say that it is both.
It would also be a choice untill you trigger off the disease.
So i would say that it is both.
A choice, a choice, a choice. It will always be a choice. But once we make that choice and keep making the same choice over and over again to use, it will eventually change us - so that one day we wake up and it won't be so much a choice as our bodies cry out for something that it needs.
i think it is a disease, and like all diseases you catch it from a virus or germ. Our germ is or D.O.C. Exposure once or twice might not make you a carrier but if you keep mixing with it you will end up getting the bug. We all made the choice to take the stuff but after a while you are no longer the same person, the disease has eaten that part of you up. Just my view. Good topic!
a choice. Calling it a disease just gives addicts excuses over and over and over to keep relapsing. IMO. "I just can't help it, it's my disease".
Choice, and the it takes on the disease.....
But in the end, choice comes back in because many get clean, because they made the choice to change.....Just how I see it.
wants to remain nameless, gotta love justification and excuses.....My favorite is what do you expect I am an addict, or we are addicts. What a cop out, most do, say, react because that is who they are. Being an addict is just one aspect of life. Just like everything else there are good, bad people and then those special evil f*cks. Some just happen to be fighting addiction......
But in the end, choice comes back in because many get clean, because they made the choice to change.....Just how I see it.
wants to remain nameless, gotta love justification and excuses.....My favorite is what do you expect I am an addict, or we are addicts. What a cop out, most do, say, react because that is who they are. Being an addict is just one aspect of life. Just like everything else there are good, bad people and then those special evil f*cks. Some just happen to be fighting addiction......
I've done alot of thinking on this subject like Why can my father use somtimes and allways keep a job and not doing it every day or to acess?
Why does one person who is addicted to opiates just wean them selfs down and be done and not need any treatment?
Why did i need the rehab and the counsling and everything?
I thought it was a choice that turned to addiction untill i realize my addictive behavior before i started using drugs and i'm shure that i would have become addicted to somthing else if i never used drugs weather it be shoping eating or any other addiction i believe i am a addict and in no way do i use it as an excuse or justification i educated myself and make the right choices
Why does one person who is addicted to opiates just wean them selfs down and be done and not need any treatment?
Why did i need the rehab and the counsling and everything?
I thought it was a choice that turned to addiction untill i realize my addictive behavior before i started using drugs and i'm shure that i would have become addicted to somthing else if i never used drugs weather it be shoping eating or any other addiction i believe i am a addict and in no way do i use it as an excuse or justification i educated myself and make the right choices
..I think the seed of the disease is in everyone..i think everyone has got some sort of an addictive personality..but its the choices we make to feed the disease
that divides wot sort of addict we are..weather its our choice or the disease that defines us...some people with a strong personality could have a smaller addictive personality..than someone with a weak personality who could also let other people make the choices for them..but i don,t think theres much between disease or choice..because at the end of the day..would we really chose to be an addict if it was so easy to escape from..Robbie..
that divides wot sort of addict we are..weather its our choice or the disease that defines us...some people with a strong personality could have a smaller addictive personality..than someone with a weak personality who could also let other people make the choices for them..but i don,t think theres much between disease or choice..because at the end of the day..would we really chose to be an addict if it was so easy to escape from..Robbie..
Thank you all for the reply's. I wanted to open up a debate on the subject after I had a debate with someone on the term" the disease of addiction" and if that term is being manipulated and exploited. I wanted to gather different view points on the subject. Again thank you for your reply's.
100% a choice without any dought, i made the choice to take heroin, i made the choice to push my family away and then i made the choice to get my life back and get off the evil stuff.....100% choice.....Peace.
