Chemical Dependency/Illness or weakness

[Brown Thrasher]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

It's always a choice but as you progress the wrong choice looks more and more rational, more like the right choice.

A person who is chronically addicted, most likely knows the choice to use their drug of choice is irrational. However, without detox, the physical and psychological craving is to much to bear. Why would a pregnant mother smoke crack the same day she is to give birth? There are stages with addiction, just like stage with cancer and other diseases. An addict can go into remission, then relapse and die. I've seen this numerous times. A person can work a program of their choice and stay sober for years. However, it appears once they quit that program, they are apt to relapse. After being detoxed, or becoming sober in whatever way, it is a choice when the addict uses again.....
I will never disagree with that. That is why so many people have a problem with calling adiction to psychoactive drugs a disease.....
An alcoholic or addict has to want to be clean/sober more than they want to be high for sobriety to work. If they ever lose that, it is just amatter of time before relapse.......