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He doesnt see himself as "superior" in his decision making. Just fortunate in the genetic hand he was dealt.
Again, it assumes that what the "addict" feels and what we feel is the same. It is not. It is not even close. It is not just about some people being able to control it, and others not. This assumes the "it" (the highs/lows that drive addiction) is the same for all of us. They are not, and the difference in intensity in these feelings is huge between different people.
You can tell yourself you have better control, but the reality is you are not trying to control the same thing as the addict.
And I bet when Rock responds, he will agree with you.
Poor interpretation, or maybe poor choice of words on his part. I saw his use of the term more as a "figure of speech". But I understand your seeking clarification as the semantics are quite important on this topic.
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But maybe, also, some people just like it. They would not change even if they could.
It is gut wrenching and a painful memory remembering being on the phone and hearing a friend drunk out of his mind keep repeating "I can't stop. I can't stop. I can't stop" over and over and over.
The topic of addiction is reaching two stroke debate status and I have noting more to add on either topic.
I think it's important to keep this in mind when thinking about people struggling with addiction. I don't want to say they aren't in some ways responsible for falling into the hole they fall into. But it's clear that there are strong genetic contributions to how much risk we all take, how much we enjoy (or are poisoned and hate) a given drug/liquor/nicotine, etc. and in many cases we know which receptor (or part of the receptor) in someone's brain is responsible for it. (Receptor=small switch on the outside of brain cell which can "activate" that brain cell.)
I think this review will back that up for the interested, and I am happy to interpret any science-speak that make it indecipherable. We scientists use tons of jargon that even we struggle with. It's annoying.
How does a person do heroin the first time?
I've had my times,but before marriage back in 91 92 ,I was livin like wild. I would think I've seen it all,probably not.
I've watched guys run a needle in their arm,hit the floor and flop like a fish. Seen their kids playing with broke off syringes.
How far a man can fall . I never stuck a needle in me,I knew that would be it cause there was not a limit.
Most of those people are dead,od to car wrecks to gunshots. The person that quits is a rare rare person.
I got together and racing again,the only thing that gives the same death defying rush.
AS has a long way to fall if he chose dope over that bike.
Its a hell of a show,the drug world today is far different than when i was off the rails.
Pit Row
It ends up costing you a lot. I have spent $30k on treatment and probably 10K on on drugs and legal problems.
http://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addiction-disea…
"Four in five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers. As a consequence, the rate of heroin overdose deaths nearly quadrupled from 2000 to 2013.
94% of respondents in a 2014 survey of people in treatment for opioid addiction said they chose to use heroin because prescription opioids were “far more expensive and harder to obtain.”
People often share their unused pain relievers, unaware of the dangers of nonmedical opioid use. Most adolescents who misuse prescription pain relievers are given them for free by a friend or relative. The prescribing rates for prescription opioids among adolescents and young adults nearly doubled from 1994 to 2007.
If an addict or a Drunk woke up on Gilligans island alone and naked with nobody else on the island would he try to make heroin out of grass and twigs and make a needle out of a hollow twig, and shoot some mulch, or would he not even think about it other than what to find to eat and drink?
Or does he inject coconut water with the hollow twig instead of drinking it?
Does he start each plant on fire by rubbing twigs and smoke every plant looking for something to get high off?
IMO.....addiction is more of an access issue than a real addiction issue.
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Pot, alcohol, meth, etc. are mostly just mentally addictive and won't cause an actual physical reaction from withdrawal. Heroin addicts can actually die from withdrawal from what I understand.
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