Rootless Cosmopolitan
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I've always felt the only real addictions are those that if abruptly removed causes real physical side effects. Everything else is just someone who prefers using etc.
This debate comes up constantly and it always irritates me. The physical addiction aspect is never the main problem. Any hospital and plenty of clinics can detox you comfortably with some pills and a lot of tea and water. You can do it at home if you’re careful. I know plenty of people who have.
But months and years after there is no more physical addiction, addicts relapse. Why? Because addiction is a disease of the soul, not of the body. It is an inability to cope with or find pleasure in normal, daily life without substances.
A pill can’t really cure that. People have had luck with religion, hallucinogens, long stints of solitude, near death experiences, music, and so on.
It’s also good to have a dose of humility and realize that we are all just one powerful substance or insidious experience away from addiction. Sure, such things hit the simple or culturally naive first (see Native Americans dying of alcoholism, or blacks to crack), but we are all vulnerable. Fentanyl right now is annihilating whites in many areas.
You’ll notice the problems in these communities hit by addiction. They’re all “soul problems”. Native Americans lost a war and their land. Blacks left the South and saw the Civil Rights Act pass, only to realize that they were still failures and it was the content of their character all along.
Rural whites are currently suffering from a lack of God and jobs lost to immigration/globalization.
Addiction stalks people who are vulnerable. The best armor is a strong community, a good job, and God. Don’t think you are safe because you are told something “isn’t physically addictive” — remember, they said that about Oxy, too.












