Addiction: choice or disease? | Thread profile

how do you see it? i call it a choice, i was a pot head and an alcoholic when i was younger. all choices i made. then i made the choice to quit. simple enough. for whatever reasons the powers that be have given addicts a crutch and a reason to be an addict in calling addiction a disease. please explain your vote.

Originally Posted by Luvkittys7 I obviously voted "disease". I will expand a little bit more later. Is it ok if I bring over some stuff from the other thread where we were discussing this? I may try...

I obviously voted "disease". I will expand a little bit more later. Is it ok if I bring over some stuff from the other thread where we were discussing this?

Originally Posted by WhiskeyTango I may try to merge the posts. Awesomeness.

just take mine out of the other if need be wt. ill go with it here. go ahead lk

I don't think it's a choice nor a disease. Addiction is addiction. Always going to be there. Now, there's a choice to do something about it.... I think a person who chooses to do something about their addiction and succeed would have to feel an overwhelming sense of power.

eh, I'm the slow one of the mod circle. I think we get the jist here.

I voted choice. As I've admitted before on this forum, I've battled addictions to pot and meth. It wasn't something I did for enjoyment it became a way to make it through life. BUT, I realized it, didn't care for what it was doing to me or the people around me and quit. I CHOSE to beat my addiction not let it rule me.

Originally Posted by 03roadstar agreed, 100%. the thing i would add, regardless the addition, it seems that the addictee (new word) is usually hurt by people around them by their enabling. if it is friends that still hang with them even though ...

Originally Posted by WhiskeyTango I don't think it's a choice nor a disease. Addiction is addiction. Always going to be there. Now, there's a choice to do something about it.... I think a person who chooses to do something about their ...