Saturday, February 25, 2012

The Untold History of Drug and Alcohol Addiction

By Michael Carson


There are lots of folk and organizations in our culture who are trying very hard to be sure that Drug Addiction isn't seen as a illness or as the results of genetic or biological predilection. These people have a powerful private and social interest in a completely nonphysiological model of addictive human behaviour. Their point of view of social issues is based primarily on a philosophical orientation with a social perspective, heralding socio-political correctness as its goal.

All though history, many folks and institutions have attempted to help alcoholics and addicts. Currently, there are countless thousands of different programs in the U. S. trying to help those people who have a social or personal issue with drugs or alcohol. Yet, the rate of success for these programs is extremely low considering the effort and investment made.

There are countless reasons why these programs aren't working, however the reason is still to be realized. Existing programs are not working because they're based on false expectations of philosophy and man's instinct. They do not address the incentives and emotions of obsessions.

Today, drug treatment and rehabilitation centres are typically operating on the assumption that social or philosophical factors are causing the addictive behaviour, and that if we could change an addict's belief system, or his social support structure we could end his addictive behavior. And yet, the success an individual reaches, typically doesn't last so long as the treatment. This shallow view comes from our government and non secular orientations which maintain that addiction is the result of bad private choices, puny character, and anti-social or irreligious behaviours.

These are not pointless points of view in our tries to improve the human condition. However , in resolving the pervasive Problems which have deeply attached roots in our human motivations and emotions, we must see that socially based perspectives have little to offer. People don't destroy their families, careers, and love relationships, because they choose to, or due to their chums. They do not need money ruin, loss of self esteem, being assaulted, or spending long and frequent amounts of time locked up, just because its their chosen way of life. These are blind and ignorant angles.

It is obvious that an inducement, or physical drive stronger than our conscious concerns is at work fueling our addictive behaviors. Obsession means giving up conscious control. It is rash, comatose behaviour. As it is announced in Alcoholics (or narcotics) incognito, addicts are folks who've lost all control of their lives , as well as their substance use and misuse. These people have tried many various times to stop using these substances, for their own private, fiscal, or social reasons, and yet they couldn't. They managed to stop for brief periods, or curb use for longer periods, but true abstinence over an extended time period is a little rare among true addictive characters. Also, addiction is a progressive disease.

12 step programs learned 60 years back what governmental, social, and spiritual establishments still refuse to accept, even though they are used by many drug rehabilitation centers, such as those drug rehab programs in West Columbia South Carolina. Most addicts won't stop utilizing until they hit bottom, believing that they may not survive unless they get assistance. Thankful alcoholics and addicts are those sufficiently fortunate to survive long enough to have a sudden, radical, change in orientation, a sort of religious awakening. Here the individual comes to believe that he can't trust his conscious capability to direct his very own behavior. He eventually does what he could never do before, he admits defeat. Beaten down to his knees, he asks god for help, (whether or not he thought himself a non-believer, or agnostic,) and eventually turns to others. 12 steppers say "Our best thinking is what got us here. It became mandatory to carry on a life of humility."

Addiction the only mental disorder that convinces the affected that its everyone else who is ill, not himself. This is due to addictive denial. This is not a conscious act. In the grateful addict's new fact, he realises that this denial is the unconscious mind's capability to completely block an addict's conscious awareness of the character of his addictive behaviour, and character, replacing it with vivid misapprehensions, created to support the addictive behavior. Positive emotions and inducements are perverted, denied, or extinguished, An. Individual eventually becomes nearly zombie-like, and running on automated, terribly unlike his former self.

Freud himself had attempted to treat advanced alcoholics and had come to believe that they were hopeless, beyond treatment. Nonetheless he had heard about some having recovered after a non secular or religious experience. He suspected these instances to be miracles.

What really occurs is that the weight of comatose motivations become inclined to stop the addictive behaviors instead of continue. After survival or another extremely deep unconscious drive becomes the most primary concern, the addict has what twelve steppers call, a moment of lucidity, which is a powerful enough for change in conscious alignment. Some of the people accept that this is because conscious concerns and social pressures create a new choice in behavior. Actually , comatose motivations save us from a threat which our denial had consciously concealed.

Intellectuals are commonly excellent examples of some who are highly educated, well intentioned, and respected people, sometimes successful in their own careers, while teaching and counselling others. Yet, they have no idea what is occurring inside peoples hearts and minds.

Sociologists and non secular advocates are usually, such intellectuals. Thus, they aren't able to help addicts due to their absence of knowledge and practical experience relating to our basic emotional and inspirational nature. The real psychological basis of drug obsession has an inbuilt nature, and it is a natural motivation which drives the addictive personality. There are plenty of cultural factors and environmental or social influences which are closely related to addictive behaviours, yet when given the same social, economic, and environmental factors, one individual becomes an addict, while others who are similarly influenced become abstainers, or even more typically, will try experimenting with drugs but never have drug use issues or become addicts. This is the kind of awareness which ethical pontifications and statistical social research will never be able to reveal. They are looking in the wrong place, and from the wrong perspective. You might say they are on solid ground, but chasing a wild goose, and barking up the incorrect tree.




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