The fourth part of my serieson the basic nature of addiction
Increasing numbers of people have become intimately acquainted withthe misery of drug addiction: either their own addiction or the addiction ofsomeone they know or care about.
There is a pattern to the onset and progress of drug addiction that is thesame for every addiction, whether alcohol addiction, cocaine addiction,methamphetamine addiction, heroin addiction, or addiction to the mostpernicious of all drugs: psychiatric medications.
THE PERSON IS IN SOME PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL PAIN THAT SEEMS TO HAVE NORESOLUTION.
THEY TRY TO ESCAPE IT BY TAKING DRUGS.
THE PERSON FINDS THAT DRUGS GIVE A TEMPORARY RELIEF BUT WHEN THE DRUG WEARSOFF, THE PAIN RETURNS, SO THE PERSON CONTINUES TO TAKE THE DRUGS.
DRUGS ACT ON THE BODY LIKE POISONS, DEPLETING ITSVITAMINS AND MINERALS AND WITH CONTINUED USE OF THE DRUG, THE BODY'S ABILITY TOPRODUCE CERTAIN CHEMICALS SUCH AS VITAMINS IS CRIPPLED BECAUSE THESE CHEMICALSARE REPLACED BY THE DRUG.
DEPRIVED OF ITS OWN NATURAL RESOURCES AND WITH THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEMINCREASINGLY IMPAIRED, THE BODY PERCEIVES THAT IT NEEDS THE DRUG TO FUNCTIONAND DEMANDS THE DRUG THROUGH PHYSICAL CRAVINGS.
THE BODY HUNGERS FOR THE DRUGS THE WAY A STARVING MAN WOULD HUNGER FORNUTRITION. THESE CRAVINGS BECOME SO SEVERE THAT THE ADDICT WILL DO ALMOSTANYTHING TO GET MORE OF THE DRUG.
IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT SUFFERED ADDICTION TO IMAGINE HOWSEVERE AND RELENTLESS THOSE CRAVINGS BECOME.
THE ADDICT COMMITS INCREASINGLY SERIOUS MISDEEDS AGAINST HIS FAMILY,FRIENDS, AND HIMSELF TO SATISFY THOSE UNRELENTING CRAVINGS. GRADUALLY HISPREVIOUS PERSONAL CODES OF CONDUCT, HIS PERSONAL STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR AREABANDONED.
BECAUSE OF THOSE MISDEEDS. THE ADDICT FEELS INCREASINGLY DEGRADED, CANNOTFACE HIMSELF AND SO DIVES DEEPER INTO DRUGS.
THE PERSON IS NOW TRAPPED IN FULL BLOWN DRUG ADDICTION.
Addiction is a particularly vicious and destructive trap. Most drug addictsor alcoholics are, prior to their addiction, intelligent and most oftencreative persons with much hope for the future.
The shambling, malnourished criminal types to whom you give a wide berth onyour city streets are usually in the final stages of a long and agonizeddownfall that began with a pain that would not resolve and winds up in a wide,cloying sea of agony.
Fortunately, when you understand the true reason for addiction, a door to aneffective solution opens before you.
There IS a road out for the addict, a road that does not involve drugs ofany kind. It a far more effective and workable road than has been providedbefore.
To find out more about it, you can contact Narconon or email me via my blogand I will point you in the right direction..
