Comments on: Addictions as Excuses

By: alive and well

alive and well — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:57:28 +0000

i am a recovering addict have been clean now for 3 years!!i dont think you really now what you are talking about i never asked to be an addict it just happened i was only 12 when i started and so are nearly all addicts about that age when they first take drugs ie smoking.i blame the area where i grew up its just what everyone did at the time we dident no any better.all drug users start of with pot thats why i think we should leagalized it, after all you dont get offered heroin or cokecaine in an off-licence the only reason most people are heroin users is because they are influenced by drug dealers when all they wanted was some pot.tax it put an age limited like alcohol.and i leave you all with this question.when you or if you drink at the weekend thats classed as being ok but when someone chooses to smoke some pot there a drug addict yet not one person in the world has ever died from smoking pot buy millions die every year from alcohol related deaths.who is the real addicts??????

By: workaholic

workaholic — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 06:55:44 +0000

I enjoyed reading it.

By: James DeVere

James DeVere — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:38:18 +0000

Do you think your proposal has legs? j

By: Katien

Katien — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:09:55 +0000

Good article. I agree with what everyone has said. The term addiction is used a lot of the time to describe an extreme greed of one sort or another.

By: Neil Bates

Neil Bates — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:02:30 +0000

Well, a very very good article and I think you have raised a lot of good points. In a way, yes I do agree with you, then I also in a way do not.

In a way, yes you are correct, I would say an addicition is a chemical dependancy. i.e. heroin, smoking, alcohol ....... but then there is that drug adreneline, which I know all too well is very easy to get hooked on. Ok, i do not understand shopping addicition but I can see how maybe they get addicted to the feeling and the chemical changed in their body that shopping gives.

This was true in the addicitions that I have found in my life. However, I think the major difference is that its internal biological chemicals that some of us get addicted to, against man-made chemicals that are added to our bodies.

Does this make sense?

By: yaffel

yaffel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:53:44 +0000

Addiction is used to often especially by the people whi end up in court courts. you’ll hear it almost everytime about someones addiction when their caught. its become a bit of a farce and the courts fall for it. Excellent article!

By: Matt John

Matt John — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:11:45 +0000

Many people have they own addictions.

By: BoJack454

BoJack454 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:08:32 +0000

This is a very good article,but some things are genetic,due to chemical makeup passed down through DNA.But no one can tell me shopping or credit is an addiction.

By: Casey Kelley

Casey Kelley — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:35:08 +0000

Super -Valid. I enjoyed this.

By: Gon Pincha

Gon Pincha — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:20:44 +0000

Great article.
We have to be moderated with these things..