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<blockquote data-quote="Big Bad Kitty" data-source="post: 82693" data-attributes="member: 3647"><p>If there is anyone who truly believes that addiction is a choice, I challenge them to a debate.</p><p></p><p>Karen is right, in that it is a choice to take a drink or a drug in the first place.</p><p></p><p>When you become addicted, there is no choice. it is like choosing to have high cholesterol. </p><p></p><p>However, you *do* have the choice to remain miserable and live with your addiction, or get help and arrest the addiction.</p><p></p><p>The difference between treating this disease and treating any other disease is that treating an addiction A) makes you admit you have a problem, which so many people cannot do, and B) forces you to feel everything that you originally took the drugs to cover up, which so many people WILL not do. </p><p></p><p>For so many people, getting through the initial embarrassment of admitting their problem and working through their pain is not worth the joy that they aren't even aware exists on the other side. For them, sitting in the disease is easier. They never have to feel. </p><p></p><p>For many more, the choice to quit is there, but the determination to stay with it is not. These are the ones that come in and out through the revolving door. These are the ones that skeptics look at and say "aha! AA is not for everyone!"</p><p></p><p>The skeptics can bite me. Anyone can follow the program. But they have to want to first. You can't make them. </p><p></p><p>You can't make someone who is suffering from high cholesterol follow a low fat, low cholesterol diet, either. But it works if they do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Big Bad Kitty, post: 82693, member: 3647"] If there is anyone who truly believes that addiction is a choice, I challenge them to a debate. Karen is right, in that it is a choice to take a drink or a drug in the first place. When you become addicted, there is no choice. it is like choosing to have high cholesterol. However, you *do* have the choice to remain miserable and live with your addiction, or get help and arrest the addiction. The difference between treating this disease and treating any other disease is that treating an addiction A) makes you admit you have a problem, which so many people cannot do, and B) forces you to feel everything that you originally took the drugs to cover up, which so many people WILL not do. For so many people, getting through the initial embarrassment of admitting their problem and working through their pain is not worth the joy that they aren't even aware exists on the other side. For them, sitting in the disease is easier. They never have to feel. For many more, the choice to quit is there, but the determination to stay with it is not. These are the ones that come in and out through the revolving door. These are the ones that skeptics look at and say "aha! AA is not for everyone!" The skeptics can bite me. Anyone can follow the program. But they have to want to first. You can't make them. You can't make someone who is suffering from high cholesterol follow a low fat, low cholesterol diet, either. But it works if they do it. [/QUOTE]
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