once an addict always an addict? once an alcholic always an alcoholic?!
Question: i have never had a substance abuse issue.i dont drink or do drugs at all.but i have friends who have or do. what is your take on this one?
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The short answer is yes. Meaning that once in recovery, you can NEVER do it again. There is no just one hit or just a little drink for a true addict.
Sad but true.
Edit: After reading a couple posts above I should put a more positive spin on this. Yes, the person is always an addict, however once he/she gets control of their life then there is a freedom that they didn't have before. Can this person take that one more something again? No. But now he/she can live a much happier life than before. Achieving this can take years of treatment and therapy but it is worth it.
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people can change if given the proper motivation.
Well your right an addiction is like a virus you never get rid of it. All a person can do is overcome and live with it. Sad huh>?
Once an addict you can stop being one - as long as you continue abstination.
I used to smoke cigarettes but quit a year ago I don't feel addicted now but if I had 1 or 2 I could be.
I think ppl can change if they REALLY want it.
I really think that this depends on the will power of the person who has a substance abuse problem.
I used drugs when I was in high school. And I had a pretty bad problem, I moved a state away in with my sister, I never went to a program or anything, and I've been clean ever since.
I think that if you have that in your head, Always an addict, That you actually set yourself up for failure. I don't believe or would recomend a 12 step program for people who are addicts, because I believe the human mind is a brilliant thing, and we can retrain ourselves to go right back to the way it was before we ever used anything.
well i disagree with you.
i know a few people who drank but are not drinking anymore.
as for addicted to drugs i don't know any one who was on drugs so i cannot give a answer for that one.
but the drinking yes they can change and for the better.
cHANGE iS Life,so don't think so..
you have to want to quit your a drunk if you drink and an alcoholic if you have recovered. Its very possible my dad cleaned up after 10 yrs of drugs and drinking. Hes been clean 8 yrs now. You have to hit rock bottom before you want help, all you can do is offer advice to quit, they have to do the rest on there own.
I AM CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH GETTING CLEAN
AT NEETIONGS EVERY BEFORE THEY BEGIN TO
SPEAK SAY ' MY NAME IS DOE AND I AM AN
ADDICT'
TO ME TO TRY AND GET CLEAN AND THEN REPEATABLY
CALL MY SELF AN ADDICT KEEPS THE ADDICTION ALIVE
"SO AS A MAN THINKETH OF HIMSELF
THAT IS WHO HE WILL BE"
WHAT U THINK?
Ive heard of people who got saved and asked God to take away their desire for cigs. and they were delivered from them, never wanted them again.
I agree with xquasarx and cracked daddy has a good point
those sayings are very far from true. you can change your ways but you have to want to change your ways for it to be effective. i used to be a drug addict myself but have been as clean as a whistle for the last 16 years. the more people go on at you about it the more you take them. i decided it was time to face reality and straighten myself out. so it can be done as long as you want to and have the will power to keep it up.
I think some people are born with an addictive trait. My husband, for example, smokes cigarettes, AND he is a recovering alcoholic. He (THANK GOD) stopped drinking about 3 years ago, but I don't think he will ever be able to put the cigs down. In the place of drinking, he now buys and sells baseball cards on ebay. It has consumed him every bit as much as the drinking did. I say this addiction took the place of the other one.
Myself on the other hand, I started smoking cigarettes at about age 16 and finally stopped in January of this year. I think my smoking was more of a nervous habit than an addiction.
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Who knows?
To practice self control or not is my take on this, I used to drink like a fish all the time now I don't, it just as simple as that. I used to chase every women I thought might give it up, now I'm married , it's just that simple.
good luck with your singing, you bear a strong resemblence to Blondie back in the day. I guess I'm giving up my age with that.
Yes and no. Addiction must be considered from the dualistic perspective of mind and body. Each of these offer up there own impetus for abuse. Regardless of where the addiction comes from, if it has risen once, the danger always there remains. That said, the commited person recovering can be wise in their life choices, commited to their life path, and the issue can never again be raised. As a former drug addict and alcoholic, I know I am that forever. I know that the place within, from which all that came from, can be found again. I know that darkness does not die. But, my life has changed, my vision has become clearer, and I have a wiser understanding of what I am doing.
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