EBook Sample 2/Addiction Why Me

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Recent advances in the field of "Neurology" have revealed a new insight into the disease of addiction. This very

complicated medical science has brought to light some very practical understanding of addiction and of the addict and his thinking and behavior. Much is revealed when you see drug addiction as a Disease of the Brain!

"E. M. Jellinek" - author of

The Disease Concept of Alcoholism

Now we will begin our journey into enabling ourself to be of help!!!

There is so Much More to Know and Do, Please Don't Stop Now!

Open Your Mind and Your Heart Will Follow!

Until quite recently most people have thought of addiction as just a lot of drug use that was a matter of choice, and that addicts were either weak willed or just didn't care. Some have thought of addicts as being people who had just chosen to be criminals; lazy, non-conformist, or just "bad" people. Most people thought that you could move back and forth between

addiction and being just a drug user. The truth is that the circumstances of addiction are not voluntary.

The reality is that when you reach the point of addiction with a drug, you move into a different state of mind and being. You live in the state of obsessive, compulsive, uncontrollable drug use. Barriers and limitations that socialization has

instilled as acceptable no longer exist for you. In addiction you have become "at the will of the drug" period. Free will is not applicable once one has reached the point of being "addicted".

Yes, it's true that in the beginning there was a choice, but that choice disappears for the person prone to addiction. In this, I mean that genetically, physically, and/or mentally, some people are pre-disposed to addiction. Most people have their original contact with drug use in peer settings, as children. Most people who try drugs do not become addicts. They are able to put them aside for reasons rooted in common sense and desire to achieve, or because they fear the consequences that occur. Very, very few people go to the state of addiction and just say "I quit" and walk away from the drugs. Truly, if you can do this you probably have not actually entered addiction. Someone who is just a user has a choice, but the addict does not.

Most people can control their initial drug use, but once addicted this is no longer possible. The addict needs help. They cannot control the overwhelming cravings. They need help in this and in dealing with their compulsive, uncontrollable drug use. They need treatment as do people with any other disease.

What is the essence of addiction from a scientific standpoint? What facts support the foundation that supposes that an "addict" has no control and that free will has nothing to do with their ability to stop? What indicates that without help, they have little or no hope of recovering, from this "state of addiction" that has occurred in their brain?

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