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Originally Posted by tmi

I would like to ask a few questions,


If you are addicted to food, does that mean it is a disease?

f you are addicted to booze , does that mean it is a disease?

If Your addicted to drugs , does that mean it is a disease.


If someone has cancer is that a disease?


Tbh I cannot comprehend that addictions are diseases.

People are not addicts from birth, unless they're mother was using while carrying.


People choose to be an addict you cant choose whether you have cancer (the disease) otherwise people would choose not to have it.

People do have a choice whether to be addict.


People turn to all sorts of crutches when life throws them a rough deal at them ie food , boose, drugs. Someone once said you dont know if your alcoholic until you have your first sip. I read somewhere a woman had a gastric band and lost 14stone, she then became addicted to booze, she indeed needed a crutch, perhaps you should treat the reason people have addiction . Most addicts have a reason for taking drugs.

But people don't chose to be addicts. That's the point. You think Amy wanted to be lying facedown in her own vomit wondering where her next hit of heroin was gonna come from?

It's not a physical disease like cancer but it's definitely a mental one. She didn't wake up one day and decide 'Oh, I'm gonna become a crack addict today'. But through her own personal life experiences, the people she associated with and naivety, her drug use gradually got more and more out of control.

I'm not trying to say she should be seen as a role model, far from it, but I don't think it's fair to say that her death was totally self inflicted. She was in and out of rehab so it's obvious she knew she was messed up. But addiction alters the mind. Unless you've been there, I don't think anyone, myself included, knows just how powerful it can be.

And not being born an addict has no bearing on anything. People aren't born with cancer.