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RE: Addiction: Choice VS Disease: The False Dichotomy
Addiction is a choice, you let it in
Addiction is a disease, it kills instantly
Addiction is a choice, you let it in
Addiction is a disease, it kills instantly
Are children who are prescribed addictive drugs by the medical system making a choice?
Though we cannot undermine the fact that at such a young age, exposure to addictive drugs have a life long impact on kids but it's a choice for them to keep up with it. When those drugs are prescribed medically to them other drugs which help curb the addiction are administered as well. I will say it's curiosity and will to explore that brings about the choice of addiction
I don’t think you can call it a choice, even if you were given opiate prescriptions as a kid (I always refused them) you don’t understand anyone else’s brain chemistry nor do I. I have good friends I grew up with who are now heroin addicts & they were exposed to a lot of prescribed opiates at a young age. There families & most of their friends judge them without question. I say we only know what we know & nothing of what’s happening in someone else’s mind. If children were commonly prescribed cocaine I’m sure we would see a lot more cocaine addictions as adults. These companies & drs know the consequences but continue to profit
Form what you're saying, the doctors who prescribe the drugs give the kids no choice than that to become addicts
I think for a lot of people that is true