“No medicine can be considered truly healing if its effects do not automatically render it obsolete in a reasonable amount of time.”Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, mindfulness, Medicine, Pills
“Nine years later, when I got to rehab, all drugs and alcohol were removed from my life. Guess what was waiting for me: my core issues, my condition, my dis-ease. Nine years of self-medication had not, in fact, cured me. Masked by my 'medicine' my issues had been patiently biding their time until the…”Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, mindfulness
“It is not fully accurate to say that my problem was with drugs. Yes, I took a lot of drugs and hurt myself quite badly doing so. Yet for a long time at the beginning of my using, drugs (marijuana in particular) were a solution to a problem that had been there for some time.”Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, Drug Abuse, Marijuana
“People speak about drug addiction and alcoholism as the specific problem a person has. 'He's an alcoholic. He cannot control his drinking.' 'She is a heroin addict. She's dependent on drugs.' Yet the underlying condition of dis-ease is there first and then the behavior begins in order to address it.”Tagged: Addiction, dis-ease, mindfulness