Are Drug Addicts selfish or helpless? (minimum wage, drugs, school, money)
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The addicts I've known generally start out as casual users. It really isn't selfish... just peer pressure and curiosity. When the addiction takes hold, nothing matters but the next fix.. the body "needs" it.
I was watching Intervention and a guy was on drugs mostly pain pills and he said he got hooked after an accident. So instead of trying to ween himself off of them he just got deeper into his addiction. By the time the show was filming he was harassing his wife for money every day and they were being evicted and his parents had gone thru most of their savings which was over $200K to feed their sons drug habits.
He had lost his $35 an hour job, and his wife was working minimum wage, he had 1 teenage daughter, one step daughter and a niece they were caring for.
He also had a friend he would go shoplifting with and the drug dealers gave them shopping lists of what they wanted in exchange for pills. He even wanted the last money his wife had to rent a storage unit to put their stuff when they were evicted.
It's crazy, but it's their own faults for being enablers. If that were someone in my family I would not give them a dime for drugs.
Step away from the boob-tube. It is all but guaranteed that sensationalizing TV shows will not be pointing the way toward the most appropriate and promising means of diagnosis and treatment.
I had an uncle who sold the kitchen sink to feed a habit... it wasn't even his place.. he was renting. They will find a way. They end up destroying everything that matters and has value around them... I don't think they would be so self-destructive if it weren't for the addiction having such a strong hold on them.
Its not just drugs either... alcohol as well. Some people are fine.. some develop into addicts... some sort of predisposition to addiction of certain things that some have and others don't.
There is a lady down the street in my middle class nice neighborhood. She grew up here... nice lady.. great mother of two. My child goes to her house to play with her children. I didn't realize she was a recovering addict until she admitted to me that shouldn't could official volunteer at school functions because she has an arrest record for drug possession. She is an active member of some support group. You would simply never have known unless she told you. She got hook after doing it a couple times with friends... some lucky.. some (like her) not so lucky.
addiction really isn't a "choice" once you're hooked. be it cigarettes, alcohol, drugs. an addiction overrides any rational thought. you think like a junkie. they might know in their head somewhere they shouldn't steal from their children to get money for their high, they know it hurts the family and may feel badly, however the addicted mind overrides any logic. most people can't just quit an addiction without serious help over a long period of time. even then it is a hard road.
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