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Drug Addiction is a Brain Disorder

Friday, July 31st, 2009

It is so easy to say a drug addict is weak, bad or some other label. The truth is they may be one or more of those things but that has nothing to do with their drug abuse and addiction. Drug addiction is a brain disorder which renders the person virtually powerless over their ability to not use or control their drug use. More and more research confirms this fact. So, you may say, what? Well, when talking to families about it, and they tell me their child was a good person and all of sudden they are a very different,  we have some encouraging news. And the other thing is drug addiction can be put into permanent remission, if the person is willing to follow the process known as drug rehab and recovery.

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Doing 30 Days in an Addiction Center

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

People say going to a 30 day drug addiction treatment center is a big waste of time and money. People who say ” I am not going to go to rehab because it does not work”, do not know what they are talking about. And they are using it as a lame excuse to not go. The truth is 30 days of inpatient rehab is the ideal way to start down the road of successful recovery.  It is true not everyone who goes to drug rehab is successful. Those who do not make it in recovery, fail because they were unwilling to give it 100%. Since, addiction is a fatal disease, I like the odds of doing 30 days of rehab, as opposed to the absolute certainty of death from the disease called drug addiction.

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Take a Look Inside Substance Abuse

Friday, July 17th, 2009

What could possibly be added to everything that’s already been written about substance abuse? I am a drug addict in recovery. So I know what it feels like to live a life of drug abuse and addiction. For people who have never known what it is like to use drugs every day, I will tell you after a while it isn’t much fun. I started out smoking marijuana when I was 21 years old. And for the next 15 years I smoked pot. I honestly believed there was nothing wrong with what I was doing. Drug addiction has a way of making you believe it is ok, or not that bad. And when you have not used in a while that first hit makes an addict feel like they have died and gone to heaven.

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Drug Abuse is Not Necessarily Drug Addiction

Friday, July 17th, 2009

At the risk of splitting hairs, there is a difference between drug abuse and drug addiction. They are not the same. They belong to the same organization, but are in separate departments. All drug addicts abuse their drug or drugs of choice. The fine and important distinction between a drug abuser and a drug addict is craving and dependence. If someone can smoke marijuana one day, all day and then not even think about it again for at least a month, they would not meet my criteria for being an addict. However, if a person smokes pot and the next day feels a strong urge, desire and need to smoke again, there is a very good chance they are addicted. Addiction is not about using or abusing drugs. It is the mental obsession which eventually takes over an addict’s life.

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