Addiction. Choice or disease?

[Kingofkings1992]

It’s a choice

It’s a disease

Other ( see my comment)

[genericname85]

i think ultimately it's a choice. like there may be some biological factors that make it more difficult for some people to resist an addiction or to get out of one. but the same is true with being obese. ultimately it's your choice. and if you did what you had to do, you wouldn't be addicted or fat.

[genericname85]

like people love using "it's hard" as an excuse for not doing it.

[Kingofkings1992]

Obesity isn’t necessarily a choice. it’s very dependent on circumstances

[genericname85]

no, it's a choice. again. there is biological/genetic stuff that can make it hard for you to lose weight or very easy for you to gein weight. but that's excuses. it's a choice. like if you're not eating, you're not gaining weight. it's simple as that.

[Kingofkings1992]

Addiction starts out as a choice, but later becomes a disease

[genericname85]

it's nevertheless still a choice. it's just harder to undo that choice you are continuing to make the more you keep continuing to make it.

[genericname85]

like i understand there is things like physiological addiction and it absolutely gets very hard to quit at that point. it's even live threatening in some cases to quit cold turkey. but it's still a choice.

[genericname85]

cause you don't have to go cold turkey. you can do it right with medical help. it's up to nobody else but you to do that. so it's a choice.

[Kingofkings1992]

Yes, treating the addiction is a choice. Using the drug for the first time is a choice, and getting help is a choice. Being addicted is not a choice.

[genericname85]

so if a series of choices leads to a certain result, then suddenly that result is not a choice? i'm not getting that logic. like if i constantly do poor economical choices, i'll be bancrupt eventually. and at that point it would probably difficult for me to stop being broke. but even at that point, being broke is the result of my poor choices. so it IS a choice.

[genericname85]

like just cause a series of poor choices leads to a result that's not favourable doesn't suddenly make it not a choice in my opinion. it's like i chose to ate burger king every day and now i'm fat and me being fat wasn't a choice? how dos that work?

[Kingofkings1992]

Not comparable. Addiction changes the brain. it’s not the same as poor financial choices

[genericname85]

well why got your brain changed? because of your poor choice. like did someone else damage your brain? no you did. so it's your choice? like is that a leap in logic? i don't think it is.

[genericname85]

and even tho addiction does change your brain and makes it more difficult to escape addiction, it's still possible. so it's harder. but it's still a choice not to make that hard choice. at no point does it become "not a choice". unless you're dead. then you can't choose anymore obviously.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

It’s a coping mechanism that grows out of control. Inebriation is initially a means lf relief, but then you become so reliant on it that you need it more than you need anything else, like how you can’t get through the day without a cup of coffee (caffeine is one of the few legal addictions in the world).

[Kingofkings1992]

There are tons of legal addictions. Caffeine, kratom, Tianeptine, Phenibut, alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, and sex to name a few

[Jessica405]

It has to be a choice. Everyone knows the risks. It is your choice to pour alcohol down your throat. To light up another fag. Short narcotics up your nose.

[cinema75]

It’s a choice, but some people have more will power to make that choice or not, and that can be influenced by behaviors that they justify as “okay”‘in their own minds.

[Flower7]

The first time the behavior is done, it is always a choice. If the person didn’t choose to try it, they wouldn’t have been able to become addicted to it.