Comments on: The Importance of Self-Esteem in Recovery http://www.breakthroughaddictionrecovery.com/blog/2008/03/09/the-importance-of-self-esteem-in-recovery/ The Proven Medical Solution for Alcohol and Opiate Addiction Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:21:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Jana http://www.breakthroughaddictionrecovery.com/blog/2008/03/09/the-importance-of-self-esteem-in-recovery/#comment-123 Jana Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:28:58 +0000 http://www.breakthroughaddictionrecovery.com/blog/2008/03/09/the-importance-of-self-esteem-in-recovery/#comment-123 Addicts realy are different from normal people. When a normal person thinks that his body is becoming too accustomed to an Rx drug, he immediately takes action to stop this state of affairs. When an addict suspects this, he looks for ways to accumulate a constant supply. I learned this from addicts, themselves. It is important to distinguish between addiction and mere dependence. Addiction is the compulsion to use a drug while being aware of the deleterious and dangerous consequences. Dependence is only a physical change wherein the patient becomes seriously sick if he doesn't take the drug on schedule. He gets no pleasure from the drug. It is easy to see that doctors are making their patients dependent. Long term use of some drugs does this. What is reprehensible is the doctor's failure to warn or to obtain informed consent. This failure is common. Them, when the patient accidentally finds what the doctor did to him, he is wrongly called an addict. Treatment consists of training not to use the drug. How is this helpful to the patient who is not addicted but who is dependent? In fact this delays the physical threatment that he actually needs. Addicts realy are different from normal people. When a normal person thinks that his body is becoming too accustomed to an Rx drug, he immediately takes action to stop this state of affairs. When an addict suspects this, he looks for ways to accumulate a constant supply. I learned this from addicts, themselves.

It is important to distinguish between addiction and mere dependence. Addiction is the compulsion to use a drug while being aware of the deleterious and dangerous consequences. Dependence is only a physical change wherein the patient becomes seriously sick if he doesn’t take the drug on schedule. He gets no pleasure from the drug.

It is easy to see that doctors are making their patients dependent. Long term use of some drugs does this. What is reprehensible is the doctor’s failure to warn or to obtain informed consent.

This failure is common. Them, when the patient accidentally finds what the doctor did to him, he is wrongly called an addict. Treatment consists of training not to use the drug. How is this helpful to the patient who is not addicted but who is dependent?

In fact this delays the physical threatment that he actually needs.

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