What Do You Think

Pain Pills
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is it true that we were born to be drug addicts,what i mean is this truley a diease,or we just got here by making bad choices in our lives?i will give you an example,say you have someone that supposibly that is not born with this diease and you give them pain pills for a many number of years and then cut them off,i know they will have wd that is a givin,but after the wd are they going to be a drug addict?even though they wasn't born with the diease?no matter the answer,i'm done with the s***,i was just sitting here going through wd thinking about things,so if there is anybody smarter than me,which i dont think will be to diffacult,please give me your opion on this retarted quiestion.GOD BLESS. VINNY
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Check out the link below to the article "Addiction Is Brain Disease," which is offered on the Home Page of this website. It offers a useful perspective.

http://addictionrecoveryguide.com/a...article151.html
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none4me,thanks for your quick response to my question,from how i understood the article you are not born with the diease of addiction you gradually get the diease by useing over a peiord of time,i guess,all i know is i am an addict that doesn't want to go through this hell anymore,so for now im going to take it one day at a time,i think i will watch the movie my cousion vinny to try to get my mind off of how misirable i feel,thanks again.VINNY
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Vinny,
I am very new to this with 8 days clean. I have gone to the link that none4me mentioned many times, and when I first read it--it didnt hit me, and the 2nd time it didnt hit me, and so on..what I do know today is that I have a problem, and I need to get better. I dont really have an interest in how I got it, thats not to say that I wont want to later on--I just have to deal with today--and not take anything.

Again, I am so new to this--and learning as I go.

Good Luck
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Just to clarify, I provided the link for informational purposes -- hopefully not to be taken as the final word on addiction as a disease. Vinny, I don't think there is an answer to your question as to whether you're "born" with the disease or not, although many people (including myself) believe that you can be born with a much higher predisposition to acquiring the disease due to your genetic make-up. My extended family is a case study for that..... Hope this helps, M.
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Hope I did not confuse anyone, what I was trying to say was that for me I am not strong enough to focus on how this has happened, I just know that I have a problem. As time passes and I learn more about myself, I will be able to dig futher into what makes me tick...for now its an hour by hour, day bu day journey..

Thanks
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Vinny, from everything that I've read over the last two weeks, it seems that people are born more SUSCEPTIBLE to addiction than others and therefore have a greater risk.

For example, in the book I'm reading now, it talks about how they placed 3 rats in a cage with a bowl filled with liquor (I'm paraphrasing).... One of the rats didn't drink at all, even though it was there the whole time. One of the other rats drank in moderation. The third rat drank all day and night.

When they breeded two of the "alcoholic" rats, that baby automatically ran to the liquor, even with no encouragement or prodding.

We make the choices... addiction is not like cancer where you have no choice in dealing with it or not.... but I think our brains are wired a certain way where some people have a greater risk of being addicted to anything. I've known people who have kept pain pills in their possession for YEARS and can take it as prescribed. Me? I can't even go shopping lots of times because I buy everything that I see. I'm addicted to everything

If you have a parent or grandparent who was addicted to something, you are also at a greater risk