2 Things in Common for Addiction

The 2 things in common for addiction is:

#1: The loss of control (Physical Allergy)

#2. The inability to quit (Mental Obsession)

These are the two things that are the common denominator in my addiction if you read some of my Crazy War Story blog entries you will notice these two factors. These two items are true in my life as well as anyones life who is battling with addiction anywhere in the world. I lost control so bad that I died,  I would get run over by cars, arrested by the DEA, and my addiction took me to places that I would not have otherwise gone.

So the two things in common for addiction everywhere is the loss of control just as the Physical Allergy and the inability to quit which is the Mental Obsession.

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Yes! Alcoholism is a Disease?

Some will debate that alcoholism is not a disease and that the entire disease concept is bogus. Over 400 self help groups have formed in the United States as a direct descendant of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous www.aa.org .
The American Medical Association AMA declared alcoholism as a treatable illness in 1956. See the following link: http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1926.html The truth or facts about the disease of alcoholism is that it is a disease. It is an incurable disease of the body and the mind or a Physical Allergy and a Mental Obsession. The disease concept was written by a man by the name of Dr. William Duncan Silkworth in the Doctor’s Opinion of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous.

5 Types of Alcoholics from the Doctor’s Opinion

These excerpts were taken from the Doctor’s Opinion and in true Gangsta Recovery form are reprinted without the expressed permission of Alcoholics Anonymous www.aa.org. However, our motive is plain and simple to help people….

 

#1. The Psychopaths- They are over-remorseful and make many resolutions but never a decision 

 

#2. Unwilling to admit he can not take a drink

 

 

#3. After being entirely free from alcohol for a period of time he can take a drink 

 

 

#4. Manic Depressive type 

 

 

#5. Then there are the types entirely normal in every respect except in the effect alcohol has upon them. 

I like everybody else who reads the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous would like to think that they are the #5 type of alcoholic. However, this is not the case for most of us. 

 

 

The most important part of this page is the second to the last paragraph in which it reads…

 

 

All these, and many others have one symptom in common: they cannot start drinking without developing  the phenomenon of craving. This phenomenon as we have suggested, may be the manifestation of a allergy which differentiates these people, and sets them apart as a distinct entity. …. The only relief we have to suggest is entire abstinence. 

 

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