http://www.rapiddrugdetox.com/blog/2009/05/addiction-isnt-a-brain-disease/ Committed to helping people quit opiates safely and effectively... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:44:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.rapiddrugdetox.com/blog/2009/05/addiction-isnt-a-brain-disease/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Sue Isidee Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:17:36 +0000 http://www.rapiddrugdetox.com/blog/?p=54#comment-229 I agree somewhat with both points...To say that drug addiction, like other bad habits, can be broken, is somewhat confusing.. I can choose not to go buy my drugs but I can also tell myself to ignore my obsessive compulsive feelings and that they aren't real but it doesn't make them go away any more than the feelings of withdrawal. Withdrawal is a real feeling created by lack of pain receptors in the brain and to anyone who has never felt the pain of withdrawal, it is not as easy as just talking yourself out of it.. I can't stand people that have never felt the pain of detoxing trying to say that it is not a disease. Yes, initially, it is a choice of the person whether to take or walk away from the drugs, but once addiction takes over, it is not that easy. It's a feeling that overtakes you, something more controlling than the most important aspect of your life... hmm, let's see, give 20 bucks to a poor mother whos addicted to heroin suffering a 2 day detox and see if she's going to go buy diapers or some dope.... Her child is no doubt the most important thing in her life, but while in the grips of an opiate addiction, that need to feel better and get rid of the d/t's overtakes any need her family or friends may have... Even though as a sober, non-addicted woman, she would put her baby before anyone and everything... Isn't that a trait exhibited by a mentally unstable person? Someone with a mental disorder, a "disease"? Surely no perfectly sane or stable person would let her child go without the bare essentials unless she was "crazy" right?... I agree somewhat with both points…To say that drug addiction, like other bad habits, can be broken, is somewhat confusing.. I can choose not to go buy my drugs but I can also tell myself to ignore my obsessive compulsive feelings and that they aren’t real but it doesn’t make them go away any more than the feelings of withdrawal. Withdrawal is a real feeling created by lack of pain receptors in the brain and to anyone who has never felt the pain of withdrawal, it is not as easy as just talking yourself out of it.. I can’t stand people that have never felt the pain of detoxing trying to say that it is not a disease. Yes, initially, it is a choice of the person whether to take or walk away from the drugs, but once addiction takes over, it is not that easy. It’s a feeling that overtakes you, something more controlling than the most important aspect of your life… hmm, let’s see, give 20 bucks to a poor mother whos addicted to heroin suffering a 2 day detox and see if she’s going to go buy diapers or some dope…. Her child is no doubt the most important thing in her life, but while in the grips of an opiate addiction, that need to feel better and get rid of the d/t’s overtakes any need her family or friends may have… Even though as a sober, non-addicted woman, she would put her baby before anyone and everything… Isn’t that a trait exhibited by a mentally unstable person? Someone with a mental disorder, a “disease”? Surely no perfectly sane or stable person would let her child go without the bare essentials unless she was “crazy” right?…

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