Reply #69: People are gangning up on, but I agree

[Canadiana]

A lot of people really don't know anything about addiction. The fact is, it becomes an absolute disease. I would liken it to a mental disease where the sufferer becomes completely irrational and does things they would NEVER do when sober. Ever.

Has anyone ever seen the show "Intervention" on A&E? It shows that once someone becomes addicted to a substance, such as Meth, they want it so bad, so utterly and unbelievably bad that they would hurt their own children for it. They would lie and kill for it. They don't want treatment because the meth addiction doesn't want to be treated. It owns them completely. They must initially be VERY VERY coerced into treatment...almost no one goes willingly. But they CAN be cured if they go.