Do you believe this cliche?
2007-05-25 05:58:11 · 15 answers · asked by IamwatIam 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
yes. However, you can be a "Recovering Addict" if you are in the program.
2007-05-25 06:01:58 · answer #1 · answered by Dan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, unless you quit. I have met a number of drug addicts who quit and stopped taking drugs. It is hard, but they stopped. They still considered themselves addicts, however. They knew it was a day by day struggle that got easier, but was always a struggle.
From personal experience, being overweight is the same problem. I found that my asthma got to bad to pick up smoking any more. I learned early in life what gambling can do to you. I have to say that the thoughts come to my mind, some more often than others, like eating, but the consequences can be well, I won't be doing them any more, ever in this life, that are the consequences of some. I have decided that I like it here. I am ready to go any time, but I will enjoy it as long as I am here.
So, I guess since craving something is there almost all the time and the thoughts, that is what is meant by an addict is always an addict.
2007-05-25 13:09:22 · answer #2 · answered by cavassi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, with all of my being. I am a former practing addict. I will always be an addict. I have been though 4 treatment centers over 20 years. If I was to use today, I would be right back to where I was in a matter of minutes. Being an addict is a disease of the body and the mind. It is terminal, because if left unchecked it will lead to death. I have lost 4 friends to cocaine and meth. Their addiction cost them their lives. It is not a cliche, it is a statement of fact.
2007-05-25 13:11:49 · answer #3 · answered by internationalsnubber 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not ! I am a recovering alcoholic, and I've been sober since 1998. I was addicted to alcohol, but not now. But, I also realize that if I was to start drinking again today, I would be addicted again in a short time. Right now, thanks to the Good Lord, I have NO desire for alcohol. That's the difference, I just plain don't want to drink. The urge is no longer there. That's what God has done for me, and I thank Him sincerely every day !
2007-05-25 13:17:46 · answer #4 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not at all. God gave us something called "free will" and a mind to make choices in our everyday lives. Using the word addict is just an excuse to do whatever it is you choose to do a lot, whether it's good for you or not. If you smoke, you've made that choice. You can quit. It's a state of mind. If you don't want to smoke, you won't, plain and simple. Just because some things are hard to accomplish doesn't mean that they can't be done. Some things that are hard to accomplish are usually the things that are worth doing.
2007-05-25 13:06:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps it is a matter of opinion, rather than anything else. I know a person who used to do drugs, years ago, and they have been drug-free for years, yet they consider themselves a drug addict. I also have a friend who does drugs, addictively, yet seems to think that they aren't an addict. What we think we are is not often who/what we are. Yet it's more positive to not be an addict. It's perhaps an individual perception: If one is drug-free and states that they are not an addict, that is true...they are not an addict. Yet if one wants to percieve addict with being a permanent disease then yes. Drugs can have lasting affects, yet if one is drug-free then they are indeed drug-free. Not an addict.
2007-05-25 16:52:03 · answer #6 · answered by Ms. S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sort of. I think addiction is more of a trait or predisposition than a practice. There usually still is relative disfunction even if the addict is not doing whatever it is that they are addicted to and could start doing it again no matter how long they've not been. Not to say that they will. One can hope that the addicts in their life stop giving in to their addiction(s)...for good.
2007-05-25 13:06:08 · answer #7 · answered by OOO! I know! I know! 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To a degree, yes I do agree. a person is predisposed to becoming addicted to something. that is why one person can try drugs or drink and not be come an addict and another is addicted after one use. with help, usually rehab, one can overcome their addictive behaviors but can never again use the substance they were addicted to- for instance if they were an alcoholic, once in recovery they can't drink even one drink.
2007-05-25 13:11:26 · answer #8 · answered by Shar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if you take someone that calls them selves's a recovered addict to the wrong place, what do you think will happen.Most people have to go to rehab or use other methods just to quit. Cause the body and brain tells them that they need it.
2007-05-25 13:11:55 · answer #9 · answered by meiraeyes 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People get so hung up on labeling themselves as "something" Addict , mentally ill, poor, victim it is your choice to stay under that umbrella or break out and recreate you life as something complely new and leave all those doom filled lables to the others who need then to define themselves. You dod not need that kind of stuff to define you. You are who you are enjoy it get the support you need but don't buy into a lifelong lable that is detremental to you.
2007-05-25 14:55:41 · answer #10 · answered by panndora 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes . to some people, But the ones tired living addict to ,
something brakes away from it.
Wth help or on there own.
2007-05-25 13:08:33 · answer #11 · answered by jackie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋