Free Articles on Freedom Plaza: Drugs
by Kieron McFadden
The fourth part of my series on the basic nature of addiction
Increasing numbers of people have become intimately acquainted with the misery of drug addiction: either their own addiction or the addiction of someone they know or care about.
There is a pattern to the onset and progress of drug addiction that is the same for every addiction, whether alcohol addiction, cocaine addiction, methamphetamine addiction, heroin addiction, or addiction to the most pernicious of all drugs: psychiatric medications.
THE PERSON IS IN SOME PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL PAIN THAT SEEMS TO HAVE NO RESOLUTION.
THEY TRY TO ESCAPE IT BY TAKING DRUGS.
THE PERSON FINDS THAT DRUGS GIVE A TEMPORARY RELIEF BUT WHEN THE DRUG WEARS OFF, THE PAIN RETURNS, SO THE PERSON CONTINUES TO TAKE THE DRUGS.
DRUGS ACT ON THE BODY LIKE POISONS, DEPLETING ITS VITAMINS AND MINERALS AND WITH CONTINUED USE OF THE DRUG, THE BODY'S ABILITY TO PRODUCE CERTAIN CHEMICALS SUCH AS VITAMINS IS CRIPPLED BECAUSE THESE CHEMICALS ARE REPLACED BY THE DRUG.
DEPRIVED OF ITS OWN NATURAL RESOURCES AND WITH THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEM INCREASINGLY IMPAIRED, THE BODY PERCEIVES THAT IT NEEDS THE DRUG TO FUNCTION AND DEMANDS THE DRUG THROUGH PHYSICAL CRAVINGS.
THE BODY HUNGERS FOR THE DRUGS THE WAY A STARVING MAN WOULD HUNGER FOR NUTRITION. THESE CRAVINGS BECOME SO SEVERE THAT THE ADDICT WILL DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO GET MORE OF THE DRUG.
IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT SUFFERED ADDICTION TO IMAGINE HOW SEVERE AND RELENTLESS THOSE CRAVINGS BECOME.
THE ADDICT COMMITS INCREASINGLY SERIOUS MISDEEDS AGAINST HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND HIMSELF TO SATISFY THOSE UNRELENTING CRAVINGS. GRADUALLY HIS PREVIOUS PERSONAL CODES OF CONDUCT, HIS PERSONAL STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR ARE ABANDONED.
BECAUSE OF THOSE MISDEEDS. THE ADDICT FEELS INCREASINGLY DEGRADED, CANNOT FACE HIMSELF AND SO DIVES DEEPER INTO DRUGS.
THE PERSON IS NOW TRAPPED IN FULL BLOWN DRUG ADDICTION.
Addiction is a particularly vicious and destructive trap. Most drug addicts or alcoholics are, prior to their addiction, intelligent and most often creative persons with much hope for the future.
The shambling, malnourished criminal types to whom you give a wide berth on your city streets are usually in the final stages of a long and agonized downfall that began with a pain that would not resolve and winds up in a wide, cloying sea of agony.
Fortunately, when you understand the true reason for addiction, a door to an effective solution opens before you.
There IS a road out for the addict, a road that does not involve drugs of any kind. It a far more effective and workable road than has been provided before.
To find out more about it, you can contact Narconon or contact me and I will point you in the right direction.
Fifth part of this series is here
