- Drugs
Drugs ARE a choice. Addiction is NOT a choice. Nobody grows up saying, “Hey I want to be an addict!”
I’m a recovering addict and addiction isn’t a choice. I can almost guarantee you that many of your friends or your family have all taken some kind of “mind altering substance” whether it be alcohol, prescriptions, or things that AREN’T heroin.
If you’ve got a genetic predisposition (you should really take a look at that stuff called genetics, it’s pretty interesting stuff) along with traumatic events, your brain literally changes. It stops developing properly, stops sending the correct chemicals or the correct amount of chemicals. Eighty percent of addicts are trying to reach oblivion, a place where troubles don’t exist.
The only way anyone gets help is when they learn to cope correctly with things regular people don’t have a problem coping with. I sure hope you NEVER have to deal with someone you love “making the choice” to become an addict. Now go stand on your high horse and pretend you’re better than someone else since you “made the choice” not to become an addict. Unless you’ve made the choice to NEVER take ANYTHING (alcohol, marijuana, or prescription) that is mind altering, you really don’t know what it’s like to do something once and change.
Using mind altering substances is the only way addicted people know how to cope. Drugs ARE a choice. Addiction isn’t. Remember that.