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Saturday, April 9, 2016

The Mind Of A Drug Addict

If you do nothing to get out, you end up dying. To be a drug addict is to be imprisoned. In the beginning, you think drugs are your friend (they may seem to help you escape the things or feelings that bother you). But soon, you will find you get up in the morning thinking only about drugs. You start building up a tolerance, you need to spend more, do more, you can do half of what you're doing and still get the same effect, or more."

An addict thinks, I can use this one time and I'll be fine and I won't do it again.' An addict can't think like that, but that's how they do think. They think they have control of it and they don't. You use that one time and that one time turns into, 'You're hooked.'"

They do not consider long term problems that might result. Over time, the desire for the drugs becomes more important than the pleasure the addict gets from it. By the time the thrill is gone, long-lasting changes may have occurred within key regions of the brain.

No matter the initial reason a person begins taking drugs, the end result is invariably the same—disaster.

"Your whole day is spent finding or taking drugs. You get high all afternoon. At night, you put yourself to sleep with heroin. After wake up, you liven up with crack, And you live only for that. You are in a prison. You beat your head against a wall, nonstop, but you don't get anywhere. In the end, your prison becomes your tomb."


Those who become addicted quickly learn how to go from doctor to doctor to obtain prescriptions. They are known how to visit the offices of many doctors and how to evade those pharmacies that might have their prescription histories stored in their computers.

It has been said that the least favorite word for an addict to hear is "No." When addicts are not ready to change, they become master manipulators in order to keep the addiction going. Their fear of stopping is so great that they will do just about anything to keep from having to be honest with themselves. Some of these manipulations include lying, cheating, blaming, raging and guilt-tripping others, as well as becoming depressed or developing other kinds of emotional or physical illnesses.

The more you allow yourself to be manipulated by the addict, the more manipulative the addict is likely to become. When you hold your ground and refuse to give into their unreasonable demands, they will eventually crumble into their own psychotic hell on earth.

By Daniel Miltz

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