Do you think drug addiction is a choice or a dissease?
94026
a disease, but recovery gives me a choice. \n\ncheck out na.org
969918
addiction isn't typically about the substance but the users dependence on something that makes them forget their problems. once an addict always an addict. that is why it is important to stay away from those things that may cause you problems in your life.
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I think that the main reason is that obese people should be treated as drug addict. The main problem is that both obese and drug addicts have habits that causing them to either eat or do drug. Both of them also have physical addiction that needed to be treated accordingly. Only after facing those two major factors it will be the time for diets. <br />\nAnother major issue is that the society actually unknowingly supports obesity; let me give you an example- today in the US, an obese person can claim disability and get welfare. By that, the government actually encourages obesity. Why would someone even try to get better? <br />\nAuthorities should condition those allowances: if you lose weight over a specified period you will continue getting it. If you did not lose weight you lose the allowance.<br />\nWe should always keep in mind that obesity costs a lot more then just the allowance that the obese person gets. There is the health costs, taxes lost and so on.<br />\nI say- do what you can to leave healthy life, and don’t give up
829948
I'm a conservative, and I don't care what anyone else does.  Not at all.  I think we all have to make our own choices and live our own lives.  What bothers me, though, is when all the people who choose to live self-destructive lifestyles - embracing drugs, excessive alcohol, etc. - expect society to bail them out of the messes they get themselves into.  We ALL need to take responsibility for our own actions.
29485
Your brain has been used to being one way for so long, removing that stimulant suddenly has to be a bit of a shock.  I'd say it's reasonable to go through some emotional distress while you're mind adjusts to functioning without the "drug".  Just stick with it and you'll be ok eventually.  I'm not a doctor or anything, just speaking from personal experience and observation.
604115
Yes, you can get addicted to just about anything, and I bet it can ruin your life the same way hard drugs can. It's the same as alcohol and cigarettes - why are they legal? Because so may people use it and like it and they would be outraged if they had it taken away. People like to think that because it is legal they don't have a problem and they have this attitude that they are so much better than other addicts whose drug of choice is crack or heroin or meth. If it's legal people can feel less guilty.
423149
I really like (sarcasm here) how alcoholism went from an addiction, suddenly to being a disease, simply because it was affecting society on more of a social and economic level than what was thought possible.\n\nIn my point of view, it is an addiction, just like someone being addicted to any other type of drug.\n\nSmokers are addicted to cigarettes much the same way alcoholics are addicted to alcohol.
710969
An addiction that becomes the main thing in your life is the most important effect. Malnutrition since you have no enthusiasm for eating. STDs if you sell your body to get money for the drugs.\n\nThere are more but that is a start on what the problems are.
321201
anyone who uses needs to get a life...drugs are only a crutch for those too weak to face reality. This world doesn't have space for drugged up losers. They don't call it dope for nothing..what a waste of time, money and a human life.
154329
If I had to choose, I'd pick bulimia.  You still get to eat that way.  However, I'm not emotionally unstable, so I don't have to pick either.  Catch my drift?
539201
No one wants to be a drug addict or alcoholic, but this doesn’t stop people from getting addicted. The most commonly asked question is simply - how? How could my son, daughter, father, sister, or brother become a liar, a thief, someone who cannot be trusted? How could this happen? And why won’t they stop?\n\nThe first thing you must understand about addiction is that alcohol and addictive drugs are basically painkillers.  They chemically kill physical or emotional pain and alter the mind’s perception of reality.  They make people numb.\n\nFor drugs to be attractive to a person there must first be some underlying unhappiness, sense of hopelessness, or physical pain.
565738
hard question because heroin is an addiction than can be overcome.thinking about the pain that those babies go through when they are born then i would say yes,but only if it could be reversed if they ever kick the habit.
438708
Some evidence suggests it, but no direct link has been discovered as of yet.  I, personally, don't believe there are direct genetic involvments with any addiction.  Genetic predispositions to addictive behavior, maybe, but not to any particular type of addiction.
860326
There is a difference between dependance and addiction. Dependence is where you need it to go to sleep. Addiction is where you use it to get "high". I use to take ambien and one didn't work so I would take 2 and then 3. Before I knew it, I had to have it to go to town, first thing in the morning, and then before I could go outside. I was taking 30 or 40 a day (not making this up). That's addiction. I wasn't using it to sleep..I needed the "feeling" I got from it. It is a very addictive drug. There are plenty of drugs like ambien. The newest one is rozerom. Not sure how it works. You can also try stuff like benedryl to sleep..some nights I have to take that. It's good that you are worried about getting addicted. However unless you are misusing or taking for a reason other than to sleep..I would not worry much.
874152
It could be an addiction, maybe there should be some sort of rehab or counseling. I had never really given it that much thought before.
732825
It's a combination of life stressors that makes a person give in to finding a way to, what's called in the psychology field as 'self-medicating'. A person tries to find a way to get rid of pain/memories/events/thoughts, and the thing that does it are drugs, whether they be in the form of pills, heroin, cocaine, meth, etc. \n\nI know, it's sad, isn't it?
799634
Clean, yes.  "cured" no way!  Like alcoholics, smokers, food addicts, or anorexias, a heroin addict maybe clean and recovering, but I can assure you that they are always an addict.  Godloveya both.