IT IS A CHOICE ONE MAKES.
think about it it starts out as a choice, but if you use the product for awhile then you get disease because you get dependant apon it. but you cant be dependant apon it unless you made the choice in the first place to use it!!
Drugh addiction is a disease because it causes changes to the body ti destroys things inside the brain that roduce certain things we need to feel what we wanted the drugs to do in the first place how we get confused is that people do not wake up on day and say hey i think i will become and addict they watch their parents drink or drug and we know we are aw pill taking society so it becomes a way of life and the only way to get back is through complete abstinence robert kennedy made it a part of mental health because there is no way to use these tyes of drugs become addicted and think there is nothing affected.
These are a choice people make and have to live with. Saying that it is a disease is just taking away the responsibility that people have for their actions. I am not saying that it isn't a problem but quit taking away their responsibility for their actions.
There’s been much upheaval behind-the-scenes and it’s been reported that the network hasn’t been impressed with the show’s creative development.
Essentially Moonlight has been cut for a number of reasons. The rest of the network’s schedule is quite strong in the ratings and it certainly makes no sense to cancel one of the stronger series. If Moonlight were on the ratings-challenged CW, it certainly would have been renewed.
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sanjeet Drug Intervention Washington-Drug Intervention Washington
Hi, I am maria newly join in your site.First give thanks in this site give an opportunity.Drug education is Disease is wrong.
======================= Drug Intervention Nevada
Mississippi drug intervention is basically here to give an individual the appropriate resources to get an individual struggling with a dependency that doesn't think he necessitates it into a drug or alcohol rehabilitation treatment.
Alcohol, drugs, smoking are all addictions a person chooses. It is a choice to become addicted.
A disease is something that a person does not choose to have. No one wants cancer, heart disease, ALS or any of the many horrible debilitating diseases there are in this world.
Throughout history, alcohol has been used by individuals and institutions in numerous – and sometimes extremely different – ways: in religious ceremonies, at wild social gatherings, as a safer alternative to impure drinking water, to prepare and enhance the taste of foods, and as a form of anesthesia in early medical practices, to name a few examples. Even today, some research indicates that moderate consumption of certain wines may have health benefits
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think how could someone get the disease if they never made the choice in the first place to do it. Even if their mom used it while she was pregnent they still have the choice not to touch it. There are several examles like you might know someone who stoped smoking. They were determind and succeded in so.
it is NOT a choice. i have been a recovering addict sober 20 years almost. if i could have stopped on my own i would. yes i chose the first hit the first drink but after that is was out of my control
I beileve it is a disease because I am a recovering durg addict & the disease take over your life & it has to be treated just like any other disease. An example is when someone has cancer it continuously has to be treated & so does the disease of addiction. The disease of addiction will have to be treated for the rest of an addicts life in some form or another.
People drink and do drugs to num whatever pain they are going through.I believe it is a choice but they turn to these things so they don't have to feel anything they need intervention but to get it somebody needs to get involved britney is a prime example she needed help bad and she got intervention but only after she lost her kids now she is doing so much better and if more people realized this is a disease maybe they would do more for the people who can't seem to do it for themselves i have a relative that was a drug addict but it was because of what he had to deal with and he turned to the drugs to forget what happen and to keep the pain away he is doing great now but he was self destructing he was hurting no one but himself.Yes it is a choice but sometimes life is to much for someone and that is why we have all these addictions just like cigs or coffee or even soda putting them in jail does not work why not try doing what they did to my brother put him in rehab although he didn't want to be there and now he can manage his own life without the drugs.
Well I believe it's both, because in the beginning it's the choice one makes to drink or do drugs then after they've "participated" for awhile then it becomes an addiction which is a disease.
I believe its also a choice, you choose to start. I also believe that it is addicting and for those who do drink your body gets used to it and if your body doesnt have it, it complains, it hurts.
Just like coffee though, if you drink caffinated coffee everyday and then stop you get the withdrawls from the caffine, your body is used to the caffine and so to stop it you say "Oh man I need to get some caffine in me" and you go out and grab a soda or a coffee.
I think people use the word disease as an excuse for their bad habits, its like saying oh well I have a disease so its okay. Its not though.
I think that it starts out as a choice, but some ppl become more dependant on it and it becomes like a disease to them. It takes some ppl over. I think we all make choices, but when you put something your body thinks it need in front of you, you can't help it.
for me addiction is a choice.More if you know the consecuenses and you see every day homes destroyed.You know whats right and wrong so why get into it.
I believe the comments made thus far on this subject are relatively on the mark. It's true, addictions are tough to beat and some of them can be insidiously gradual - then blam - you realize your passion has become something you can't live with without, or are extremely unhappy without. However, personal responsibility is definitely the key to avoiding most addictions. It's obvious to anyone with more sense than a doorknob that some things will ruin your life. It's simple. Don't indulge in such things in the first place. It's well-documented in schools, in entertainment, in the news, etc., that drugs (as an example) are addictive and are something to be avoided if one desires any semblance of a tolerable life, so if a person is so weak-willed that they can not resist peer-pressure or their desire to escape and/or alter their perception of reality, then that is THEIR flaw in dealing with their society and life. They have free-will, regardless of the hideous environment they were reared in. I speak from personal experience so I know if I can do it most others can as well. That said I declare that I firmly believe that accepting personal responsibility for one's actions is critically important to the stability of a family and an independent society. Although it sounds cold I say let addicts suffer the poor choices they've made. They are maladjusted humans who are unable or refuse to resist what is obviously detrimental to decent health and living. Why should the personal responsibility-minded members of our society foot the bill for people who are obviously weak or flawed and are endangering the very existence of a sane society? We should not tolerate or support such people; they are in effect polluting the gene pool, physically and emotionally.
It is a preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. Therefore, I think of drug addiction in the same way that I think about heart attack or diabetes in a person who's 100 pounds overweight. I feel terrible for the person who has it, but still realize that it was a result of a choice in lifestyle. There are many factors that lead to this choice, and I agree with Rob P. that spending millions upon millions of dollars throwing these diseased people in jail will not fix the great majority of these factors and that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere. At the very least, treating drug addicts as people with diseases will benefit those who suffer because of these addictions far more than jail time.
It is a preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. Therefore, I think of drug addiction in the same way that I think about heart attack or diabetes in a person who's 100 pounds overweight. I feel terrible for the person who has it, but still realize that it was a result of a choice in lifestyle. There are many factors that lead to this choice, and I agree with Rob P. that spending millions upon millions of dollars throwing these diseased people in jail will not fix the great majority of these factors and that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere. At the very least, treating drug addicts as people with diseases will benefit those who suffer because of these addictions far more than jail time.
It is a preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. Therefore, I think of drug addiction in the same way that I think about heart attack or diabetes in a person who's 100 pounds overweight. I feel terrible for the person who has it, but still realize that it was a result of a choice in lifestyle. There are many factors that lead to this choice, and I agree with Rob P. that spending millions upon millions of dollars throwing these diseased people in jail will not fix the great majority of these factors and that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere. At the very least, treating drug addicts as people with diseases will benefit those who suffer because of these addictions far more than jail time.
Although taking a drug is often by choice initially, usually in a 'social' way, it later turns into an addiction that no amount of sheer willpower alone will help one kick the addiction. And I do hate the word addiction, as it is far too frequently abused these days and loosely used to the point that everyone ends up addicted to "something" which just is not so. But on drug addiction, someone once told me that it's like giving a person a piece of chocolate (which is actually Exlax) and then telling them they are 'not allowed to go to the bathroom.' Absolutely impossible for the person not to go to the bathroom as their body almost immediately takes them there whether they want it or not. That all-powerful control of their body over their mind is addiction. Drug addicts desperately need help, and North Americans should be ashamed that they aren't doing far, far more for this section of society to help them.
I agree with you totally finally someone who agrees with me on this matter.I had a family member who was a drug addict he was like this because of a tramatic event that happen to him and needed to forget and to stop the pain he is finally clean and doing good but it was a long battle for him to stay clean thanks for standing up for people like him.
It is always a choice people make. You decide what to do and you have only yourself to blame.you won't get addicted if you say no to it. You have to rule your life.
This is a hard one. Some people do not realize they will get addicted to alcohol or drugs when using them for recreational purposes. The food example is a good one. So we then can say anorexia and bulimia are not disease because one knows the negative affects of under eating and throwing up. It's a tough one to call. But I'll have say it's a diseases at least psychologically.
The usage of the term "Addiction" in the question, in and of itself, acknowledges that this is something that is no longer a choice for some users (look up common and medical definitions of “addiction”). There is good medical evidence that both drug and alcohol over usage is a disease; however, my contention is that both drugs and alcohol should be legal. The big issue for me is the horrible effects of criminalizing drugs, with the crime and incarceration industries this subsidizes, and consequent human costs. The CHOICE, I'd like to make us make as a society, is to reallocate much of the billions of dollars of resources being used in the crime and incarceration industries toward education and treatment programs for those we can help. For those we can't, at least lets not force them to a life of crime or worse yet waste $50,000+++ per year keeping them in jail because of their addiction.
There’s been much upheaval behind-the-scenes and it’s been reported that the network hasn’t been impressed with the show’s creative development.
Essentially Moonlight has been cut for a number of reasons. The rest of the network’s schedule is quite strong in the ratings and it certainly makes no sense to cancel one of the stronger series. If Moonlight were on the ratings-challenged CW, it certainly would have been renewed.
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sanjeet
Drug Intervention Washington-Drug Intervention Washington
Hi, I am maria newly join in your site.First give thanks in this site give an opportunity.Drug education is Disease is wrong.
=======================
Drug Intervention Nevada
Mississippi drug intervention is basically here to give an individual the appropriate resources to get an individual struggling with a dependency that doesn't think he necessitates it into a drug or alcohol rehabilitation treatment.
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rene
Drug Intervention Mississippi
Alcohol, drugs, smoking are all addictions a person chooses. It is a choice to become addicted.
A disease is something that a person does not choose to have. No one wants cancer, heart disease, ALS or any of the many horrible debilitating diseases there are in this world.
Throughout history, alcohol has been used by individuals and institutions in numerous – and sometimes extremely different – ways: in religious ceremonies, at wild social gatherings, as a safer alternative to impure drinking water, to prepare and enhance the taste of foods, and as a form of anesthesia in early medical practices, to name a few examples. Even today, some research indicates that moderate consumption of certain wines may have health benefits
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rene
Drug Intervention West Virginia
It is definitely a choice. People choose to do it. It might become a disease later on but it starts out with the choice to do it.
i think its mostly a disease but i also think that a teensy tiny bit is partly because of choice
it is NOT a choice. i have been a recovering addict sober 20 years almost. if i could have stopped on my own i would. yes i chose the first hit the first drink but after that is was out of my control
I beileve it is a disease because I am a recovering durg addict & the disease take over your life & it has to be treated just like any other disease. An example is when someone has cancer it continuously has to be treated & so does the disease of addiction. The disease of addiction will have to be treated for the rest of an addicts life in some form or another.
People drink and do drugs to num whatever pain they are going through.I believe it is a choice but they turn to these things so they don't have to feel anything they need intervention but to get it somebody needs to get involved britney is a prime example she needed help bad and she got intervention but only after she lost her kids now she is doing so much better and if more people realized this is a disease maybe they would do more for the people who can't seem to do it for themselves i have a relative that was a drug addict but it was because of what he had to deal with and he turned to the drugs to forget what happen and to keep the pain away he is doing great now but he was self destructing he was hurting no one but himself.Yes it is a choice but sometimes life is to much for someone and that is why we have all these addictions just like cigs or coffee or even soda putting them in jail does not work why not try doing what they did to my brother put him in rehab although he didn't want to be there and now he can manage his own life without the drugs.
Well I believe it's both, because in the beginning it's the choice one makes to drink or do drugs then after they've "participated" for awhile then it becomes an addiction which is a disease.
I believe its also a choice, you choose to start. I also believe that it is addicting and for those who do drink your body gets used to it and if your body doesnt have it, it complains, it hurts.
Just like coffee though, if you drink caffinated coffee everyday and then stop you get the withdrawls from the caffine, your body is used to the caffine and so to stop it you say "Oh man I need to get some caffine in me" and you go out and grab a soda or a coffee.
I think people use the word disease as an excuse for their bad habits, its like saying oh well I have a disease so its okay. Its not though.
Unless someone put a gun to your head and forced you to start, it's a choice. Plain and simple.
I think that it starts out as a choice, but some ppl become more dependant on it and it becomes like a disease to them. It takes some ppl over. I think we all make choices, but when you put something your body thinks it need in front of you, you can't help it.
for me addiction is a choice.More if you know the consecuenses and you see every day homes destroyed.You know whats right and wrong so why get into it.
I believe the comments made thus far on this subject are relatively on the mark. It's true, addictions are tough to beat and some of them can be insidiously gradual - then blam - you realize your passion has become something you can't live with without, or are extremely unhappy without. However, personal responsibility is definitely the key to avoiding most addictions. It's obvious to anyone with more sense than a doorknob that some things will ruin your life. It's simple. Don't indulge in such things in the first place. It's well-documented in schools, in entertainment, in the news, etc., that drugs (as an example) are addictive and are something to be avoided if one desires any semblance of a tolerable life, so if a person is so weak-willed that they can not resist peer-pressure or their desire to escape and/or alter their perception of reality, then that is THEIR flaw in dealing with their society and life. They have free-will, regardless of the hideous environment they were reared in. I speak from personal experience so I know if I can do it most others can as well. That said I declare that I firmly believe that accepting personal responsibility for one's actions is critically important to the stability of a family and an independent society. Although it sounds cold I say let addicts suffer the poor choices they've made. They are maladjusted humans who are unable or refuse to resist what is obviously detrimental to decent health and living. Why should the personal responsibility-minded members of our society foot the bill for people who are obviously weak or flawed and are endangering the very existence of a sane society? We should not tolerate or support such people; they are in effect polluting the gene pool, physically and emotionally.
Sorry about the triple post, wasn't on purpose
It is a preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. Therefore, I think of drug addiction in the same way that I think about heart attack or diabetes in a person who's 100 pounds overweight. I feel terrible for the person who has it, but still realize that it was a result of a choice in lifestyle. There are many factors that lead to this choice, and I agree with Rob P. that spending millions upon millions of dollars throwing these diseased people in jail will not fix the great majority of these factors and that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere. At the very least, treating drug addicts as people with diseases will benefit those who suffer because of these addictions far more than jail time.
It is a preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. Therefore, I think of drug addiction in the same way that I think about heart attack or diabetes in a person who's 100 pounds overweight. I feel terrible for the person who has it, but still realize that it was a result of a choice in lifestyle. There are many factors that lead to this choice, and I agree with Rob P. that spending millions upon millions of dollars throwing these diseased people in jail will not fix the great majority of these factors and that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere. At the very least, treating drug addicts as people with diseases will benefit those who suffer because of these addictions far more than jail time.
It is a preventable disease, but a disease nonetheless. Therefore, I think of drug addiction in the same way that I think about heart attack or diabetes in a person who's 100 pounds overweight. I feel terrible for the person who has it, but still realize that it was a result of a choice in lifestyle. There are many factors that lead to this choice, and I agree with Rob P. that spending millions upon millions of dollars throwing these diseased people in jail will not fix the great majority of these factors and that money could be used much more effectively elsewhere. At the very least, treating drug addicts as people with diseases will benefit those who suffer because of these addictions far more than jail time.
Although taking a drug is often by choice initially, usually in a 'social' way, it later turns into an addiction that no amount of sheer willpower alone will help one kick the addiction. And I do hate the word addiction, as it is far too frequently abused these days and loosely used to the point that everyone ends up addicted to "something" which just is not so. But on drug addiction, someone once told me that it's like giving a person a piece of chocolate (which is actually Exlax) and then telling them they are 'not allowed to go to the bathroom.' Absolutely impossible for the person not to go to the bathroom as their body almost immediately takes them there whether they want it or not. That all-powerful control of their body over their mind is addiction. Drug addicts desperately need help, and North Americans should be ashamed that they aren't doing far, far more for this section of society to help them.
I agree with you totally finally someone who agrees with me on this matter.I had a family member who was a drug addict he was like this because of a tramatic event that happen to him and needed to forget and to stop the pain he is finally clean and doing good but it was a long battle for him to stay clean thanks for standing up for people like him.
It is always a choice people make. You decide what to do and you have only yourself to blame.you won't get addicted if you say no to it. You have to rule your life.
If you can ask yourself if this is something you should do, it's a choice.
This is a hard one. Some people do not realize they will get addicted to alcohol or drugs when using them for recreational purposes. The food example is a good one. So we then can say anorexia and bulimia are not disease because one knows the negative affects of under eating and throwing up. It's a tough one to call. But I'll have say it's a diseases at least psychologically.
The usage of the term "Addiction" in the question, in and of itself, acknowledges that this is something that is no longer a choice for some users (look up common and medical definitions of “addiction”). There is good medical evidence that both drug and alcohol over usage is a disease; however, my contention is that both drugs and alcohol should be legal. The big issue for me is the horrible effects of criminalizing drugs, with the crime and incarceration industries this subsidizes, and consequent human costs. The CHOICE, I'd like to make us make as a society, is to reallocate much of the billions of dollars of resources being used in the crime and incarceration industries toward education and treatment programs for those we can help. For those we can't, at least lets not force them to a life of crime or worse yet waste $50,000+++ per year keeping them in jail because of their addiction.