I discovered this side of the forum "sober living", because a topic was transferred here from OD and I went like, what is this! Let's have a look and see what it is...hehe he! Hee...hhhmmmmm. Hmm.
Drug addiction and drug dependence only mean that the person using drugs is in the lower or medium class. The upper class of our society doesn't seem to be compatible with these tags, at least not while the drug user is still a member of that upper class. I saw many cases, especially on TV, where an upper class family disowned their daughter and kicked her out of the house with nothing. So as soon as she was on the street she became known as an addict, and so the addict label immediately stuck to her, otherwise, while she was still in that upper class, people didn't even know she existed, much less that she was an addict.
If you don't have a cushion of family lawyers, doctors and accountants and 3 Bugattis in front of your villa, malicious people will always find a way to stick those tags to you, because it's what they do. Essentially these tags mean nothing, they are only made to belittle, insult and diminish a person's achievements and value, because it's what people do, they always try to show you that they are better than you, that, even-though you have this and that, in reality you're really not better than them. It's very hard for such a tag to stick on a person who is driving a Bugatti, even if you tried, you would only ridicule yourself and people would just think you're jealous. Otherwise, they would probably believe you.
I would not kill my neurons trying to process how addiction means repeatingly using a substance despite negative consequences. Why? Because those negative consequences are mainly material, so it would mean somebody who has everything would not experience any financial consequences, would not experience any legal consequences (family lawyers will destroy anybody standing in their way), they would never run out of substance and so, according to the definition, they would not be addicted because they do not experience any negative consequences whatsoever. The only way you can ever learn about it is if they OD and die, sometimes you hear that on the news.
The media today is worst then the Gestapo or soviet secret services. They apply their tactics, if you want to destroy a community, you pick black sheep from that community and publicly portray them as model examples of that community. Stalin did it, Mussolini did it, every dictator out there destroyed entire communities by applying the principle that media applies today with drug users. They pick up black sheep of our community and make it public, say, look, he's a model drug user living under a bridge...hmmm...no that's a homeless individual. He is homeless, before being anything else so?! I don't wana waste my time with topics like these.
I truly believe that, similarly to how a sex addict's approach to women is the culprit and not his desire for women, in the same way the culprit is not someone's desire for drugs, it's the way they approach drugs. It's all about how you do it. It's what determines if you have a problem or not. Otherwise, it's all about shielding yourself from jealous filth, who want to bestow those tags upon you. If you don't want pigs to eat you don't enter the woodshed. It's my advice. Drugs are nothing compared to social stigma and what malicious people are ready to do to you if you show them you have such a vulnerability. It's all I have to say.
