JK> MP> JK> I think that anyone who uses an illegal drug to attempt to
JK> MP> JK> "fix" his or her natural brain chemistry is out of his or
JK> MP> JK> her mind.
JK> MP> That is the finest Jane-ism I have ever read.
JK>Not too certain what you had in mind when you wrote that; what I had
JK>in mind  was the folks who I've met over the past 20 years who tried
JK>to do just  that...."fix" their own brain chemistry. 
BUT, you met people in a CLINICAL environment, exclusively, I'm sure. 
THAT is part of why you observe only a fraction of the REAL experience 
of what you speak of so often. And, I'm NOT trying to dis you or 
condescend...I'm just trying to give "another viewpoint". We can BOTH 
agree that drug use is bad, true? Well, I'm sure we can. YOU were a 
nurse in the capacity of a "treatment advisor" or something to that 
effect....I was a drug user. I KNOW what it is to be an addict...do you?
I'm talking first hand, not what patients TOLD me. 
AND, we are on the same side. DRUGS ARE BAD!
JK>Which, of
JK>course, is the only REAL  reason why anyone drinks alcohol, smokes
JK>pot, or takes a prescription of  Valium or Dilantin.  To fix the
JK>faulty brain chemistry one is born with.
SOME people may very well take drugs to "fix" something....now, define 
"fix". _I_ certainly didn't do this...I was out to GET HIGH! This is an 
innate drive in MANY if not MOST people. Be it drugs, or pain, or 
running, or sky-diving, or reading, or education that are also 
drives...of the same nature. These things are what people use to escape.
Some of these things are productive, others are destructive....ALL are 
addictive.
JK>One of the biggest reasons why professionals are taught not to
JK>prescribe for  themselves is the tendency to become under the
JK>influence of any mind altering  substance, including certain foods,
JK>very quickly once one starts to use them.
True, because availability is the MAJOR stumbling block to going back to
destructive addictive behaviors. If one is addicted to Crack and is 
returned to the same area that they have contacts to get Crack...they 
are often lost to it again. They need to move, break contacts with old 
druggy friends, and start anew.
BUT, taking drugs is NOT the only addictive behavior that is adverse to 
human's....ANYTHING to obsession is addictive. It is a person's mind 
that can cure them, or not. You stated to me once that "noone is ever 
NOT addicted, once addicted...always addicted". I disagree. To believe 
such a thing is to to a victim for life. To believe that you are 
free....MAKES YOU FREE! To hold THAT truth is to be cured and clean for 
life. What this principle takes is ...belief in ones self and ones own 
true power...no outside force or drug can take that from you if you hold
it to be true.
Regards. Steve
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