I am pretty old, so maybe I just don't get it but in my view, we need a little shame from time to time to keep ourselves in check. If you don't have a job, it's the evil rich, if you don't like yourself, it's a bully or society at large, if you're overweight, it's McDonald's deceptive marketing practices, if you drink excessively, it's a disease. We are slowly removing all forms of personal responsibility from our lives. ( although the one exception is prescription drugs because trust/doctors) It's not the substance, it's not personal genetics, it's the person and if it's the person, it's the character. Most people over the age of 18 have tried a myriad of potentially addictive substances and yet, all of us are not addicted. I knew what this might do to me (firstly) and what it might do to those around me. For others, they give in, and that's character. When I did coke, it was the !best fucking day of my life! and that is exactly what made it a one and done for me. I have tried pot, coke, mescaline, speed and a few other things and did not become addicted, I did not become addicted because I knew what could happen. I have had plenty of alcohol throughout my life, I am not an alcoholic. No one contracts alcoholism, no one contracts drug abuse. It's this fact that annoys me greatly when we talk about alcoholism and drug abuse as a "disease". No one is born in a vacuum and very few people are naive to the potential for addiction to substances and situations that are almost always harmful to yourself and those around you. So, if you are saying we are all equally susceptible to addiction and it's our luck that has kept us from being addicted, you're wrong, entirely wrong. I am assuming you are attempting to say it's the luck of the draw and "anyone" means if they are unlucky somehow. I know what you are trying to say, but.ĭepending on the context of that sentence.It can't, not really.
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