Jewish Addicts » Understanding the Power of Addiction http://www.jewishaddicts.org/wordpress Jewish Addicts Thu, 28 Oct 2010 02:52:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Understanding The Power of Addiction http://www.jewishaddicts.org/wordpress/http:/www.jewishaddicts.org http://www.jewishaddicts.org/wordpress/http:/www.jewishaddicts.org#comments Sun, 24 Oct 2010 03:56:43 +0000 admin http://www.jewishaddicts.org/wordpress/?p=62 If someone is suffering from Drug Addiction or Alcoholism, people around them would wonder why wouldn’t they or cant they stop using the substance if it only creates for them negative or dangerous consequences.
Chances are that the user doesn’t even have the power of choice to stop using and its no longer in their control to stop.
Most people that become Drug Addicts or Alcoholics start using only occasionally or just as an experiment, the more they use, the brain structure and its functions are altered, by now they depend on the substance not only to feel good but just to be “Normal”, by then its not any more their “Choice”.
After that they will do whatever it takes for them just to be Normal, it becomes the most important thing in their life, and nothing else matters.
Addiction is considered to be a chronic disease that needs to be managed for the rest of the Addicts life.
Therefor no matter how long the Addict has bean Clean and Sober, their brain could always have triggers to fall back into their full Addiction like before, if they will just take even a small amount of any mind altering Substance.
The only way for an Addict to stay Sober is by completely changing their lifestyle and staying away from any triggers that could lead them back to their old habits, or else they will for sure relapse.

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