@slimshifty217 980776 wrote:
I agree with you. There is a lot of mystery surrounding where the origins of addiction begins and where it ends even. There is still so much more we don’t understand about the human brain and how everyone’s mind works. On another note, I have found a lot of people that say “there’s no such thing as a functioning addict” – umm, I’m right here. I hold down a job, I’m actually being promoted right now and nothing I use shows up on drug tests because it’s all prescribed and I don’t show up for a drug test with alcohol in my system. Not saying that I don’t have my faults and not to brag about being able to do all of this – I am very good at hiding my habits and staying in the clear zone. My roommates don’t even suspect a thing. I’m a much nicer person when I’m tweaking like shit. I can go from 0 to asshole in 3 seconds flat but when I’m high, I’m the angel. It’s the evil twin that I have to constantly monitor in a choke hold so she isn’t seen or heard. My addictions are like the old days with children and women – best seen and not heard.
In my mind the problem is trying to class every addict as the same or even going as far as people being branded addicts or druggies simply because they use something tat isn’t aldohol and the people doing the branding are totally ignorant about the subject.
As far as functioning addicts, that’s total horseshit and functioning addicts are everywhere, only difference is their dealed is a doctor. the ironic fact is that WITHOUT those drugs, those people COULD NOT function but just to make that even worse, doctors are now being told to prescribe less as their is now a heroin epidemic (caused by people getting hooked on the good doctors drugs then suddenly having them taken away for no reason at all even for the most seriously ill).
Was gonna say there is a big difference between a medicine and a drug but actually there is no difference at all. The difference is with the user of the compound, addicts generally have a reason for seeking such extreme forms of relief but regardless of what wankers with no clue say, those behaviours can be overcome to a degree in some people and I think the worst thing you can tell someone with a problem is that they have that problem for life and they can’t ever bring it under control. Imagine if we told that shit to people with cancer or some other potentially fatal condition. Taking away someones hope is almost as bad as telling them they will die alone and in pain and it will take forever.
