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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 714418" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>SWOT, I was thinking about your statement that addiction is a preventable disease. You are correct that if someone never takes a drink or a pill they will never become an addict. My husband and I drilled into our daughters that we have family members that have struggled with addiction and that they needed to stay away from drugs and alcohol.</p><p></p><p>However, who at 15, 16, or 17 years old thinks that they will become an alcoholic if they have a drink or an addict if they take a pill? Teenagers are notorious for thinking that nothing bad will ever happen to them. That's why they drive too fast, drink and drive, text and drive, etc. They think that they are invincible.</p><p></p><p>So they start down that road to addiction with that first drink at a party, first pill a friend gives them, the first time they get drunk, and so on.</p><p></p><p>My daughter has often pointed out that most of the kids that she partied with went on to become doctors, lawyers, or have high profile careers in the business world. They partied just as hard as she did. But they were able to mature and turn away from that lifestyle while my daughter and a couple of others went down the road of addiction and alcoholism. The difference was a genetic history and a pre-disposition towards the disease of addiction.</p><p></p><p>Does she wish she never took that first drink? First pill? Of course she does with the perspective of a 32-year-old who had gone through hell because of her addiction. But at 15? We were just crazy parents that worried too much and told her what to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 714418, member: 1967"] SWOT, I was thinking about your statement that addiction is a preventable disease. You are correct that if someone never takes a drink or a pill they will never become an addict. My husband and I drilled into our daughters that we have family members that have struggled with addiction and that they needed to stay away from drugs and alcohol. However, who at 15, 16, or 17 years old thinks that they will become an alcoholic if they have a drink or an addict if they take a pill? Teenagers are notorious for thinking that nothing bad will ever happen to them. That's why they drive too fast, drink and drive, text and drive, etc. They think that they are invincible. So they start down that road to addiction with that first drink at a party, first pill a friend gives them, the first time they get drunk, and so on. My daughter has often pointed out that most of the kids that she partied with went on to become doctors, lawyers, or have high profile careers in the business world. They partied just as hard as she did. But they were able to mature and turn away from that lifestyle while my daughter and a couple of others went down the road of addiction and alcoholism. The difference was a genetic history and a pre-disposition towards the disease of addiction. Does she wish she never took that first drink? First pill? Of course she does with the perspective of a 32-year-old who had gone through hell because of her addiction. But at 15? We were just crazy parents that worried too much and told her what to do. [/QUOTE]
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