People who overdose ARE stupid, don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise about that. It's a terrible thing, and I'm not making light of someone overdosing or dying of drugs...but you seriously have to be a total moron to try hard drugs like heroin. People will try and tell you it's a "disease", which is quite laughable. People have choices, and some make really stupid ones and have to live with the aftermath. People need to stop making excuses for their dumb immature decisions, and take responsibility for their actions. Only then can they overcome their addictions.
haha...you are laughable....and still an asshole. Years of research by professionals must be wrong I guess....even doctors must just have their head up their asses....alcohol and drug addiction happen before drugs or alcohol are even consumed....it is genetic...inherited....
your one fucked up bitch....yep...I said it....a fucked up bitch. You being so uneducated and commenting is laughable.
Here for your viewing pleasure....."since you think addiction being a disease is laughable"
Alcoholism is defined as a primary, chronic disease with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations. The disease is often progressive and fatal. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notably denial.
Only a committee of doctors could come up with this long of a definition.
A much shorter definition is: "Alcoholism is a disease, both genetic and learned, both physical and psychological, that adversely affects both the mind and body of the alcoholic - and those that care about them."
Alcoholism myths
Myth: Alcoholics are weak. If they were stronger, they could just stop drinking.
Fact: Alcoholism is a disease not a moral weakness. Alcoholics are compelled to drink, and can only stop with help.
Myth: An alcoholic will only get better if they want to get better. I can't help him/her.
Fact: Alcoholics will usually only seek help if they "hit bottom," but that doesn't mean we have to help them drink. We can help by making them take responsibility for their actions by not lying for them, not helping them out of their messes, and not being financially supportive.
Myth: I can't become an alcoholic. It's only for bums and such.
Fact: Anyone can be an alcoholic. Alcoholism affects people of all classes, races, sexes, countries, etcs. Many famous figures in history were alcoholics.
Need a more defined verion?...ok...you can look this shit up too instead of living in ignorance.
Modern terminology
In any discussion of alcohol and drug problems we should always be clear about the definitions of the terms that are being used. This discussion is about the disease of addiction. Synonymous terms for addiction are chemical dependence and alcoholism (addiction to the drug alcohol). Addiction is a primary disease which is determined genetically and expressed biochemically in the instinctual centers of the hypothalamus, and which has psychosocial consequences. These consequences can and do occur in all aspects of the addicts life, impacting the social, vocational, legal, family, spiritual, psychological, and physical spheres. This disease also is characterized by its chronic, progressive, relapsing and lethal nature. Abuse of alcohol and drugs is not genetically determined, and often is secondary to other conditions. Abuse of mood-altering chemicals can be altered by dealing with the precipitating condition or by an exercise of the will. Usually, the abuser does not require outside help to decrease or stop the abuse when it starts to cause problems. This is not true of addiction. Physical dependence occurs when a person shows withdrawal symptoms once a drug, medication or chemical is stopped, and can be produced in non-addicts and addicts alike. Although physical dependence occurs most often in the addict, the two conditions do not always co-exist, nor are they equivalent. The difference is that the non-addict will be able to avoid a return to the use of the drug, but the addict will return to its use again and again, despite his or her best intentions and exertions of willpower. This has been one of the most puzzling features of addiction. Why would an otherwise capable and intelligent person seem to choose to repeat behavior that has always caused trouble in the past? The answer is that the addict has lost the power of choice because of the overwhelming power of the addiction, which can use their intelligence and willpower against them.
Why we know it is a disease
Many attempts have been made to determine what the cause or causes of addiction are. The attempts to define an addictive personality have all failed, although most addicts show some similar personality traits when their disease is active. These similarities do not hold in recovery, however. Nor can one predict, based on personality type alone, who will become addicted and who will not. It also has been widely believed that alcoholism is a learned behavior. A number of very carefully designed studies over the past few decades have shown that heredity plays a major, if not essential, role in the appearance of alcoholism. These studies also show that learning and environment have little effect on the presence of the disease, although they may affect the severity, as discussed below. (Although most studies of addiction have been done on alcohol and alcoholism, we believe that we can safely extrapolate the findings to other types of drug addiction.) Today there are very few medical and research professionals who doubt the importance of heredity in this disease. Our modern understanding of the disease of addiction shows that in order for addiction to appear, one must have a hereditary predisposition for it, and be exposed to mood-altering chemicals for a sufficient period of time. This period of time is shorter if multiple drugs are used, if crack cocaine or other rapidly acting drug is used, or if the potential addict is an adolescent. If any of these three things (heredity, exposure, or time) is missing, the disease cannot occur. This means that the use of alcohol or drugs is not sufficient by itself to cause addiction.