What is Addiction?: Part One of the Cycle of Addiction

The drugs epidemic is the human community’s first – and hopefully will prove to be its ONLY – truly global catastrophe.

There have been plagues, earthquakes and floods, the collapse of empires, wars and genocides but I can think of no disaster in all human history that has struck, as the drugs epidemic has done, almost simultaneously at every community and every nation in every far-flung corner of our world.

Humanity is under attack along several fronts: the debt slavery of our global system of fake money for example, or the dumbing-down occasioned by the spread of illiteracy or the creation of crime and insanity by psychiatry but drug addiction as a means to destroy Man is the most virulent and intractable of all the weapons in the satanic arsenal.

Drug addiction is a trap that can and does ensnare and then utterly ruin – and I speak here from personal experience of working in the rehabilitation field – our best and brightest. It does not respect intellect or the innate worth, ability or decency of its victim.

Those who fall into it have fallen into a personal agonized hell from which escape can prove very elusive and in so doing they have pulled down with them the friends and family who love and care for them.

When humanity loses the native endowment of one worthy soul to the purgatory of drug addiction, it in fact loses far more: it loses the creative energies of a small army of people: parents, siblings, relatives, friends, colleagues, medial people, police officers and those who dedicate their lives to helping addicts. All of these must divert their efforts in the direction of containing or withstanding the damage done to the individual addict and the society around him.

Imagine if you will the crew members of a ship, increasing numbers of whom fall ill, obliging their well fellows to care for them. Inexorably the aggregate efforts of the ship’s company are pulled away from maintaining and sailing the vessel and sooner or later the vessel, inadequately tended, will fall into disrepair or stray into dangerous waters.

The harm and debilitation, the crippling of survival effort, ripples outward from the ground zero of the individual addict to embrace an ever widening zone.

It would be appropriate then to understand what IS an addict and how a person becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol.

I will cover this in Part Two of this essay.

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