Lately while I've been observing choice of words and selection of living I've noticed that some people believe using drugs is a choice and others believe it is a disease.
Last time I checked, a disease:
a disordered or incorrectly functioning organ, part, structure, or system of the body resulting from the effect of genetic or developmental errors, infection, poisons, nutritional deficiency or imbalance, toxicity, or unfavorable environmental factors; illness; sickness; ailment.
If one chooses to take drugs and it causes death isn't that an accidental suicide? Not death by disease?
An acquaintance of mine works with drug addicts and has written:
This disease destroys lives...not just the lives of the ones who suffer from it but those of the ones who love them. There is hope, there is healing, there is a way out.
Well yeah, of course there's a way out. Stop taking drugs. If someone drinks milk is it a choice or a disease? If someone is watching TV is it a choice or a disease? You may be laughing, but twenty years someone would have laughed at someone saying drugs were a disease and not a choice. If I drive my car fast is that a choice or a disease? I could go on and on, but I think you get the ridiculous point.
So why do people believe drugs are a disease? Doesn't one "choose" to do them to begin with?
Monday, October 12, 2009
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