Pastor Rick
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Re: Alcohol
quote: Queenyforever wrote:
Some folks such as myself.....being an alcoholic, can not even have a "social" drink.....it's like playing 'Russian roulette' ....
My Dad said he was like that for a few years after WWII, then one day he just put down the beer and said he was done with it... I would say he was telling the truth on that because he never touched it again in his life. I know some people can do that (obviously since he did it) but if they can were they ever really addicted?
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11/6/2008, 1:09 am
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Joshin Josh
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Re: Alcohol
Would you want them to find out?
Different situations for different people. Some people can have a little problem with something, quit and that's the end of the story.. But some of us aren't so lucky. I am a drug addict, My drug of choice was Meth. At first I would just smoke or snort it, This was only a weekly or sometimes a monthly thing.. I got sent to rehab, did really well I didn't touch it for nearly a year. I got pissed because no one came over on my 21rst bday party, so I decided I'd go to a bar, got drunk met the devil/girl who talked me into smoking some meth only 1 time with her, Smoking it led to shooting it up, for at least 4 months after my one time I had Cocaine, heroin, lsd, and shrooms under my belt as well. She got busted and I moved... I had a whole 2 years of clean time until one day when I was about to be evicted my own relative offered me 500 dollars to let him use my house as his meth lab. I did it for the money, course I used that 500 dollars for drugs, was evicted anyway and moved in with my relative. There I shot up meth every single day for 5 months. Had a really lucid nightmare where I died and no one realized it until In was found dead in my locked bathroom with worms in my eyeballs and a needle in my arm. Moved, went to college that was june 2004, haven't used since.. but get crazy cravings sometimes.. though usually now more wanting to feel a rush rather than shooting or smoking meth.
I know Alcohol is really a different story since it's legal, but some people can use drugs socially and not be an addict.. some can even do way too much once or twice and not be one.. but do you think it would be wise for me to try it again.. just once more?
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11/6/2008, 1:58 am
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Alcohol
quote: Joshin Josh wrote:
Would you want them to find out?
I don't think so Josh, I wouldn't know if it is a addiction or a habit (remember for years the tobacco companies told us that smoking was just a habit). Now we know it is both which is why smoking is one of the hardest things to quit. Can alcohol be like that, (both an addiction and a habit)? I don't know but maybe it is for some people at least. Personally if I had gone through what you went through I would stay as far from that stuff as possible.
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11/6/2008, 11:12 am
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: Alcohol
A habit is something you can control and an addiction is something you can't, that's the distinction in psychology.
If you have been smoking or drinking for many years and can put down the substance and never touch it again, without withdrawal symptoms, then it was a habit and not an addiction. Habits needn't be negative either they can be things like putting on your right shoe first, some people will call other people who do this 'obsessive' it's not an obsession if there aren't obsessions about other parts of their lives as well.
When it comes to addiction, that is something completely different and it is now being posited that addiction is hereditary and that it only requires for the substance to be used once or twice for someone to become addicted to it. So the simple answer is that if you watched a parent destroy their family with alcohol, the chances are that you will become an alcoholic too so rather not take that first drink. Addiction is never 'cured' and it is usually not voluntary.
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11/11/2008, 11:29 pm
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