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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil
Basically trying it for the first time can "awaken" a pre-existing illness...i dont understand whats so hard to understand about addiction being hard wired.
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Because its not. Not anymore than being gay is. It is taking a wide range of behaviors and motivations and putting them all under a single umbrella of "disease".
A girl can wake up one day and decide to have sex with her girlfriend. She can choose to do it every day for months. That doesn't mean she is hard wired to be gay. One the other hand, you can see men/women that clearly are. You can have a woman that's been raped and be left with no ability to bond with, trust or be intimate with males.... and so on and so on.. and so on.
Addiction in almost all cases is "self medication" to deal with emotional issues. Of course there are neurological components in different types of addictions and with different types of drugs. Once a person has started down that path, they have a huge fight in terms of stopping their addiction in most cases. However, that doesn't mean that one can't take responsibility for their behavior or should not be held responsible for their behavior or that their behavior should be instantly dismissed as "oh, he has a disease, so he can do what he wants, say what he wants, steal what he wants, abuse who he wants and so on with impunity"