Drug addiction
- Thread starter Jazzy
- Start date
Messy3
Well-known member
- Joined
- Nov 1, 2023
- Messages
- 197
- Gender
- Female
- Religious Affiliation
- Christian
- Acceptance of the Trinity & Nicene Creed
- Yes
At first it is a choice, but maybe a forced choice at your weakest. Once addicted it is a choice to get help, but it took me ages to get rid of nicotin and thank God pot made me throw up, so I never got addicted to it, but I was addicted to benzo's and normally that it also not fun to get rid of, but I quit at once and God helped me. Way easier though than heroin I think.
By the way it can also be someone else's choice, like with a pregnant mom and a kid.
By the way it can also be someone else's choice, like with a pregnant mom and a kid.
Last edited:
- Joined
- Jul 13, 2015
- Messages
- 14,200
- Location
- Realms of chaos
- Gender
- Male
- Religious Affiliation
- Christian
- Marital Status
- Married
- Acceptance of the Trinity & Nicene Creed
- Yes
I'm not entirely convinced that it's a disease but it's hard to see how addiction is a choice - it's a consequence of a choice or a succession of choices. Whatever someone is addicted to, presumably they freely chose to start using it even if their body now has a physiological need to continue using it.
I can see that there could be exceptions if a pregnant woman is using something that results in the unborn developing an addiction before birth because they are so used to getting their regular hits of it - the child never made the choice.