02-08-2014, 06:45 PM
It's not your fault, that's true. Addiction is a disease. It needs to be treated as someone living with a disease. That means tough love and not enabling and pandering to the disease. Not letting it run your life.
There are those who are more predisposed than others. I have seen many patients who are drug addicts and some whose addiction had been so chronic it has led to a drug induced psychosis. It is important to note some of these patients (not all) come from poor backgrounds with poor role models and some are the victims of childhood abuse. They are survivors. I try not to judge them, because if it was me, I may not be alive.
There are those who are more predisposed than others. I have seen many patients who are drug addicts and some whose addiction had been so chronic it has led to a drug induced psychosis. It is important to note some of these patients (not all) come from poor backgrounds with poor role models and some are the victims of childhood abuse. They are survivors. I try not to judge them, because if it was me, I may not be alive.