WHO IS AN ADDICT?

Addicts are people who use any kind of mood altering or mood changing substance which causes a problem in any area of their life. Their life and thinking is centered in drugs in one or the other form - the getting, using and findings ways and means to get more. Very simply, an addict is a man or women controlled by drugs. 

They isolate themselves from people and loved ones when they use and try and find ways to get more. Self seeking, hostile, resentful they cut themselves from the outside world. They use, misuse and abuse drugs and still don't consider themselves as addicts. They say to themselves "I can handle it." Drugs make them feel good, they manipulate and try to control everything around them. The conscience and the ability to love is affected by drugs. 

                                             

They have a pattern of selective thinking and remember good drug experiences. The capacity to feel human is lost, living skills reduce to animal level. They lack the ability to cope with daily life. They are constantly searching for the answer - that person, place or thing that would make everything all right. Their experiences clearly indicate that there's something wrong with their lives. When others tell them that they have a problem, addicts are convinced that they are right and the world is wrong. Many of them didn't think that they have a problem with drugs until the drugs ran-out. 

They see that they have lost control over the drugs and have no power to stop it. While using, they live in a another world and experience only periodic jolts of reality or self awareness. Some of them feel lonely because of the differences between them and other members, this feeling makes it difficult to give up old connections and old habits.


 

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