Why do some ‘addicts’ recover and some continue to relapse or never get clean? How come people who stop using still look sick or carry their drug past long after they quit? Is there an underlying factor that could be influenced? If only you knew what it was, you could do something about it.
There are a couple of major factors or things which together with other things bring about an effect.
The Factors Underlying Addiction:
- Drugs are essentially poisons
- Drug residues store in the body tissue a LONG time
- Re-triggered drug memories can pin the person to their addiction
- A person who is now addicted, has underlying problems that are NOT yet solved
Let’s discuss these factors briefly; more study will be needed if you want to handle these factors for real, this is simply an introduction:
1. Drugs are essentially poisons
Currently more people are going to emergency and dying from pharmaceutical drugs they are ‘properly’ taking than illicit drugs. This tells me that drugs, no matter where they come from, are dangerous. Too much of any drug has a toxic reaction in the body and destroys the person physically, mentally or emotionally.
2. Drug residues store in the body tissue a LONG time
Drugs and alcohol have a ‘left over’ or a delayed / stalled reaction. Drugs leave residues in the body. The fat tissue, organs and even the muscles and other systems will absorb drug residues into their tissues. Drug residues accumulate in the body and the person feels and looks worse over the years of use. (see Townsend Letter Apr 2006 #273)
Even after stopping drug use, the person still looks like or acts like they’ve been on drugs. Drug residues never left the body. The drugs aren’t stored in the blood, drugs are stored in the body tissues.
People who have fully removed the drug / alcohol residues from their bodies feel incredible when their clean. Fully cleaning the body of drug residues ends physical drug cravings addicts used to expect.
3. Re-triggered drug memories can pin the person to their addiction
Drugs are essentially pain killers. Drugs stop or delay mental, physical or emotional pain from reaching the person’s conscious awareness. That means the source of the pain is perceived less than before. A person who isn’t aware of a problem can’t do much of anything to fix it – can’t even see it.
4. A person who is now addicted, has underlying problems that are NOT yet solved
A drug user who became addicted has buried issues that charge up or fuel drug abuse; Ie: when driving the cars on the road only becomes dangerous when they are not fully observed by the oncoming drivers and pedestrians.
Those underlying problems are no different. Don’t waste too much time listening to the same stories that you’ve heard a 100 times – that won’t be the true problem. The addicted person may not want to look at the real issues yet, they are still painful.
What Now?
If this is making sense to you, there’s hope. You’ll have realized that traditional rehab programs had to miss these problems and leave them triggered but not fixed – or the person wouldn’t still have difficulties.
Would you like to find out how different rehab programs work?
http://www.detox-narconon.org/blog/drug-rehab/how-detox-and-rehab-works/
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