7.26.2007

He Hit It

He hits the nail on the head with that last part. Not sure about everything leading up to it, but the ending seemed about right.

Maybe you know what it is like to be stuck. One of the phrases that best describes addiction is “temporary suicide.” He doesn’t have the stomach or the means to draw the final curtain. But he sure as hell can make this pain go away for a few hours. If you are seeking relief, look no further. This stuff will fit the bill. When there are no answers, this is the best answer. And my man has NO CHOICE in the moment. NONE.

If you don’t understand that, you don’t understand addiction. The drugs and the alcohol aren’t the problem. It’s the brain. What we’ve learned about addiction recently will blow you away. When addiction sets up in the brain, it comes to rest in the survival center. It’s where the caveman and cavewoman live. Real primal stuff. So what would you do to survive? Eat human flesh? Cut off your arm with a pocketknife? For the addict in the late stages of the disease, using is literally a matter of survival. You can’t talk them out of it. You can’t pray them out of it. You can’t guilt them out of it. You can’t even incarcerate them out of it. The only way they even
consider the possibility of quitting is when that first light bulb hits their brain: Maybe, just maybe there’s another way to ease this pain.


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