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<blockquote data-quote="tracy551" data-source="post: 83856" data-attributes="member: 3565"><p>My opinion.... I think addiction at first may be a choice but after a while it becomes an illness. My father is an alcoholic and has been for years (as long as I can remember) Everyone on my dad's side of the family drinks and it is from my 82 year old grandfather to my youngest cousins (many caught for under age drinking) But you know the stranges thing is in my 38 years I could never drink the way they do. I may have a social drink 2 or 3 times a year and husband is the same way. I hate the way it makes me feel. </p><p>My dad has been caught for DUI and has gone to AA but nothing has changed. See I chose not to become an alcoholic but my dad can not help it. He is ill and alcohol is his way thru. </p><p>Drug addiction is the same it is an illness. Drug addictes and alcohlics may not like they way things are and they may say everyday this is the last hit, but it is an overwhelming feeling they sometimes can not fight. And even if they do fight they would ALWAYS be classified as "RECOVERING" </p><p>I see patients in my office who come in pregnant and have been addicted to OTC and illegal drugs, they want to stop for the baby but can't no matter what we try to do for them. It's very sad but very real.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tracy551, post: 83856, member: 3565"] My opinion.... I think addiction at first may be a choice but after a while it becomes an illness. My father is an alcoholic and has been for years (as long as I can remember) Everyone on my dad's side of the family drinks and it is from my 82 year old grandfather to my youngest cousins (many caught for under age drinking) But you know the stranges thing is in my 38 years I could never drink the way they do. I may have a social drink 2 or 3 times a year and husband is the same way. I hate the way it makes me feel. My dad has been caught for DUI and has gone to AA but nothing has changed. See I chose not to become an alcoholic but my dad can not help it. He is ill and alcohol is his way thru. Drug addiction is the same it is an illness. Drug addictes and alcohlics may not like they way things are and they may say everyday this is the last hit, but it is an overwhelming feeling they sometimes can not fight. And even if they do fight they would ALWAYS be classified as "RECOVERING" I see patients in my office who come in pregnant and have been addicted to OTC and illegal drugs, they want to stop for the baby but can't no matter what we try to do for them. It's very sad but very real. [/QUOTE]
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