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Its a choice👍
I agree except for people who become addicted due to doctors. I have never done drugs at all. My doctor prescribed Klonopin for me. He never explained it was addictive and I had no idea to ask. I was on it two years before I knew. I had to step down the dosage to get off it. It took two months to get off of it! I was beyond pissed!
I understand those who look at a baggie or a bottle and cry "Relief at last!" Their normal state is so low that they will do anything to feel better. But all it does is drag them even lower.
People are addicted to Pepsi , fast food, sugar / chocolate, and it's not just drugs ! Consumption is a problem because people have personalities where they have to be constantly consuming something in some shape, form or fashion… i have an addictive personality but not a disease… i can choose what i consume so it's a choice not a disease ! Cancer is a disease, Hiv is a disease but choosing to smoke crack , shoot heroin is a personal choice not disease ! You can get physically dependent upon anything from coffee , Pepsi to hard drugs but its not a DISEASE…..
I got married to a good man at 18. We were poor , I had my daughter at age 20 and had to leave my baby and go work at Kmart. I didn’t know how to handle stress and my nerves were shot so I started taking a drink to calm my nerves and it got out of hand. I stopped because I loved my husband and daughter and didn’t want to lose them. It was extremely hard but I loved my baby. She is grown now.
Totally 100 % Agree !
I think that most people who do drugs, they do so by choice. Each one of us has the power of choice. The people who do drugs, in my opinion, do so to escape reality. Life is no picnic, but it's a hell of a lot worse when your life is controlled by drugs and you make crazy ass decisions.
No addiction is not a disease. Things like organ issues is the disease caused by your addictions. Just like smoking isn't a disease but the heart and lung issues are the disease caused by you smoking
This is why I got divorced! He had issues before we married. He didn’t do a single thing from 2002-2019, and he got on dope at work, after he had NO issues for 17 years! I told him I’d stay and help him get over it..it took 2 long ass years..I suffered and said I never would again. He did it again in 2024-so it killed me, but I had to go..23 years of my life was given to someone who wanted a good wife AND substances. Those 2 things don’t go together! The ones that truly suffer is the family. It IS a choice- now he drinks..it IS a choice
Sobriety is addictive
You know it is a choice and you hav a right to your opinion that its not but know one knows y a person makes the choice to do any drug i think some of it is because of a mental illness and i also think that some of us are more prone to do it because of our dna, i think it draws us into doing then alot more than someone that has a family that does not have any addicts in the family and they hav done studies on that to see how it does affect each family. I hav been a recovering addict for 15 years now and I hav slipped up a couple of times throughout but until u hav dealt with it yourself u can never really understand how bad it can be and each addict are all different and trying to quit or wanting to quit isn't always so easy for some and honestly some dont get the chance to get clean.
I'm not sure that ounce addicted that it might become a psychological.
Maybe a symptom of some sort of mental disorder but yeah, I don’t think it’s a disease in end of itself
Still it's a personal choice like Alcohol. It's the easy way to cope. These people will not work themselves nor try to improve their lives. Only a 6 yr old cant understand that something will destroy your life. This is why kids of addicts almost always never do drugs. They saw the damage first hand. Narcissists cannot accept they are responsible for their actions as adults.
addiction is a powerful beast. no one is immune to it. i have seen so many. loose everything. (including myself) but we recover, we start over.
You clearly have NO CLUE how addictions work. Your going on your personal OPPINION. But absolutely zero scientific facts.
900 hype points coming your way 👍
Any addiction if pursued for a length of time distorts your mind, perception and rationale, and common sense. Disease of the MIND!!!!!
It's unreal and sad. Here in the part of Tennessee I live, it's pretty normal. But not for me. That's why I'm single. I fell in love with two guys in the last 15 years and it was awful. I got hurt so bad, I'm afraid to get involved with anyone again. It was hurt breaking and bank breaking!
They can make money by calling it a disease. Kind of like the trans movement and those surgeries, hormones, long term wound care, etc.
Addiction! It is mostly a choice but once you get an injury and have to depend on the pill to work and get thru it,you might as well go sign up for a rehab and let the doctors have at you!
Unless you have the intellect and will power to kno how damaging it can be,to you and those who care about you.
Once you let it get out of hand,you'll lose everything you had and worked for.
To sum it up,it's a choice but it can grab you and slam you to the ground,if you are not strong enough to stop! I've seen several experience this and still do
Amen
I am an alcoholic who doesn't drink anymore. I never agreed with that disease crap. Just another excuse.
Addiction is a CHOICE! But it is pushed by the "health" industry. People need to turn to the Bible, and then they can have the willpower to not do what others at school or wherever do.
I can't get why people do drugs they KNOW will destroy them!
Are You High?
Spiritual warfare. We are all imperfect. Demons are everywhere. Drugs (including pot!), alcohol, sex, porn, nicotine are all temptations that we all fall to. Heck, I love beer but I'm still able to get up for work in the morning after drinking a few.
The addiction is a by product of mental issues, depression, and self hatred.
It starts as a choice, but after a while you can't stop literally can't, eventually I think it becomes like a disorder where it's a mental issue, because you are using the drug for certain chemicals it makes your brain and body produce that can't be produced to that level naturally, and different people have higher lower tolerance and certain substances affect different people differently example alcohol certain nationalities have lower tolerance native American, Asian and others, I think it's a choice for some, for others it's a disorder, it also gives a feeling everything is fine and good and your happy its all you want, that's why homeless people don't care how they look where they are sleep in the middle of the sidewalk they think they are fine. I do think it becomes like similar to OCD where you have to have things a certain way always or you flip out and get anxiety like germaphobe type of thing compulsive but it's really like you have to have your drugs in a cycle.
Great video M.D. !!!
Choices not excuses. I own my crap. My uncles may have pushed but i didn't have to accept.
100% choice.
1967 at 5yrs old I started with cigarettes, weed and alcohol. My uncles thought it was funny to get a little kid wasted.
1976 at 14yrs old cocaine, opium, acid, mushrooms, real meth, never heroine.
In my mid 20s I quit everything but weed ,drinking and cigarettes.
In my 40s hit a bump in the road. Meth for a year or two. Weekend warrior stuff, midlife crisis I guess. Then back to cigarettes and alcohol.
About 9 years ago quit drinking. I got drunk and was going to put a gun on some people in a " club" to get answers about my son's murder. Next day no more drinking.
Now at 63yrs old I still smoke cigarettes, lungs clear as a bell and weed sometimes to help me sleep. Never socially. But only my homegrown. I grow one or two every year. Plant in mid July, keep small, burn all but the best bits in a burn pit.
Everything is by choice. 100%
Its 100% not a disease, you made the choice the first time and every time after that
A 'drug rehab' counselor will tell the 'addict' that they were born an 'addict'.
Substance use disorder is in the DSM (a disease)
Diabetes is sometimes a choice of lifestyle and food, I think it’s a type of mental disease.
“It’s a chulce”
Most drug addictions start in the doctor's office.
I was given xanax by a doctor for a near nervous breakdown in 2000 and when I decided to quit the horrible withdrawals hit and they wouldn't stop because I thought I could just stop cold turkey. It was the first time I understood what addiction was and it led to me trying all sorts of stuff (because it was everywhere around me) trying to feel better. I tried AA and everything, got busted, went insane, was hospitalized several times etc. I even sold my property and moved to get away from all the stuff and wound up homeless. I finally sought help from doctors in 2016 with help from a family member. In 2018 I went a full year for the first time since 1982 without drinking but was I sober? No. Doctors give me narcotics now for chronic pain. I have to avoid all people now because street drugs are everywhere and get shoved in your face.
What about someone who falls 50 ft from a ladder, gets prescribed OxyContin, then gets hooked on it. Is that a chulse?
Wot Up "M. D." !!
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When I was eleven years old I overheard my parents talking about my grandmother in the hospital. They talked about her being on morphine and how good she must have felt. At that moment I knew that I wanted to feel what it was like the way my grandmother did.. Intravenously of cousre. I had dreams of a big neon sign that said Morphine it would flash on n off and get real bright. 5 or 6 years later a friend put a huge bottle of the crap in my hand, 120 pills.. He must have stole it from someone's medicine cabinet. I became a functional addict for several years on all sorts of drugs.. intravenous of course. I had my own place, worked a job, paid my bills. If I ran out of money I didn't do any drugs until pay day. I never robbed or stole, but I was pretty bad off. Eventually I got my girlfriend pregnant and quit cold turkey. Life sucked for awhile but I made it through. Guess I just want to say.. yes I agree it is a choice but unless you been through it there is a whole lot you will never understand.
It’s a choice. A drunk will sober up, but nobody can lie & manipulate like a drug addict. We need to stop coddling drug addicts.
Agree! I have always said this. It's a choice. Thanks for the video M.D. Prayers and hugs. 🙏 💕
I agree great video the only thing I'm addicted to is chocolate 🍫 yum 😋
I grew up with an addict. I will NEVER believe addiction is a disease – it is a CHOICE! Addicts are weak, selfish, liars – NOTHING more, NOTHING less………🤬
Your assessment is spot on. Personal responsibility.
I agree, however never underestimate human ability to totally screw up something,including themselves over .
Hopelessness , lack of opportunity, lack of education….that is the real disease.