Is Drug Addiction A Choice?

Though scientific research had continuously proven that addiction has physical and biological characteristics that classify addiction as a disease, some people refuse to see it that way.

Some people maintain a more ‘positive outlook’ that is ‘empowering’, claiming that a person chooses to be addicted to drugs. So there is a very controversial question… is drug addiction a choice?

Answering this question requires a second question... what leads to drug addiction?

Clearly, drug addiction all begins with the choice to use drugs.

There are many reasons a person will choose to initially experiment with drugs.

Peer pressure, or the need to belong (a basic human need) is a common cause for initial drug experimentation. Surprisingly, peer pressure is as common in adults as it is in adolescents. Though adolescents deal with peer pressure everyday, adults are more prone to submit to the desire to ‘fit in’ with a new social setting that appears to offer something ‘new and exciting’.

Drugs are also taken to treat pain, physical or emotional. When a sexual abuse victim takes ecstasy (or E) to escape reality, it is the same root cause as a patient suffering back pains who takes a prescribed medication. In both of these cases, the drugs are taken for the relief they offer.

Whatever the cause is for initially using drugs, drug addiction is never a choice! You may choose to use drugs, but you never choose to end up addicted to drugs! Even the choice to use drugs boils down to the basic nature vs. nurture. When confronted with the opportunity to experiment with drugs, some people say yes and others say no. There is always an underlying cause.

Once you use drugs, an addiction can begin to develop almost immediately.

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Drugs contain toxins, and those poisons affect your brain chemistry. Initial drug use increases serotonin, and you feel pleasure. When something is pleasurable, you are more tempted to do that same thing again and again.

All it takes is one experiment with drugs for you to begin to lose control physically, mentally, and psychologically. This is how drug use turns into drug abuse.

It is not too long after 'recreational use' turns into 'habit' that drug addiction or 'need' develops. You did not choose to develop a drug addiction, and it is not your fault! Something led you to drugs, and once that happened the drugs did what drugs do.

Drugs destroy you from the inside out, so once they are in your system you are no longer the same person as you were before using drugs. The choices you make are influenced by the drugs. When you choose to battle your drug addiction, you should never try to do it alone.

Professional help is available to offer the experience it takes to successfully recover from drug addiction. You don’t have to live the rest of your life controlled by drugs that can poison you from the inside out. You can choose to enter a rehab and defeat your drug addiction!

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