Why are there addicts?

The question is frequently asked: Why does a man become a drug addict?
The answer is that he usually does not intend to develop an addict. You don’t wake up one morning and decide to be a drug addict. It takes at least three months’ shooting twice a day to get any habit at all. And you don’t really know what junk sickness is until you have had several habits. It took me almost six months to get my first habit, and then the withdrawal indications were mild. I think it no exaggeration to say it takes about a year and several hundred injections to make an addict.

The questions, of course, could be asked: Why did you ever try narcotics? Why did you prior using it long enough to become an addict? You become a narcotics addict because you do not have strong enthusiasms in the other direction. Junk wins by default. I tried it as a matter of curiosity. I drifted along taking shots when I could score. I ended up hooked. Most addicts I have talked to report a similar experience. They did not start using drugs for any reason they can remember. They just drifted along until they got hooked. If you have never been addicted, you can have no clear idea what it means to need junk with the addict’s special need. You don’t decide to be afan. One morning you wake up sick and you’re an addict.

The attitude and conduct of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you comprehend that they are completely powerless over their force and unless they have planned help, they have no hope.There are millions of people out there who live this way, and their hearts are flouting just like mine. It’s okay to say, my kid is a drug addict or alcoholic, and I still love them and I’m still proud of them. Hold your head up and have a cappuccino. Take a trip. Hang your Christmas lights and hide colored eggs. Cry, laugh then take a nap. And when we all get to the end of the road, I’m going to write a story that’s so happy it’s going to make your liver smash. It’s going to be a great day.

Sometimes maybe you need an involvement. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Before maybe it blasts you into outer space.

It is difficult to feel sympathetic for the addicts. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and absolve them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Excessive Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little felons that had brought it on themselves?

Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it’s giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you’d be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you’ve taken.
What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that’s toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.
Every addiction arises from an unconscious refusal to face and move through your own pain. Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. Whatever the substance you are addicted to – alcohol, food, legal or illegal drugs, or a person – you are using something or somebody to cover up your pain.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
We are taught to consume. And that’s what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it’s just a mind set, that it’s just an addiction, we wouldn’t be out there stepping on people’s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

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