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Janet on Sep 16th, 2011 in
Drug Addiction |
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There is no essential difference as between any form of obsessive- compulsive behavior and substance abuse and dependence. Traditional medical and psychiatric texts have twisted themselves into knots, in trying to maintain a logical distinction as between compulsive behavior, and substance abuse when in reality they are the same – a means to get relief from painful or negative feelings and emotions.
With all...
Many people use opportunity cost analysis in the context of people using drugs and becoming drug addicted. The opportunity cost of anything can be defined as being the loss of benefit from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. Wikepedia defines the “loss of benefit” as what we sacrifice or lose, by making a particular choice.
People who begin drug use, with subsequent dependence and...
Routines, habits and addiction are all behaviors that we continue to use because of a perception that the chosen behavior is beneficial to us. From birth we absorb from our environment much information about routines from the lifestyle of our parents. At first dependent, we discover patterns in the environment upon which we can rely and so learn to create routines and schedules that satisfy our needs. Our natural...
The “elephant in the room” is a popular expression which refers to a situation or event that is of overwhelming significance, a potential problem, yet people choose, by common consent, to ignore it.
When there is an elephant in the room, that people chose to ignore, pretend is not there, refuse to mention or remove – people in the room must accommodate themselves to allow for its presence, although no one...
The negative karma of addiction and its consequences involves much suffering. Karma in the Indian culture means quite literally – action. Every action plays its part in an ongoing cycle of causes and effects. The law of karma says that for every action that we take – there will be an effect. Therefore we need to take care in what we do because consequences will follow.
The natural law follows cycles and...
