Addiction is a Disease!

I always claimed that addiction was created by AA.  However I’ve discovered proof that it existed as a disease well before.   Here is a quote from an article in the prestigious British Journal of Medicine from 1880 entitled “Chronic Morphinism”:

Chronic Morphinism is, it seems, a vice which appertains peculiarly to the medical profession in Austria.  Quite an incredible number of Dr Obersteiner’s colleagues have fallen victim to it; and he hints, not obscurely, that in his view there is poetical justice in the fact that this depraved and fatal taste should work most havoc among the class of men who, by carelessly prescribing the drug and instructing in the use of the hypodermic syringe, have been mainly instrumental in disseminating it.

The remedy first taken to allay pain, procure sleep, or tranquillise the system, is soon loved for its own sake, and becomes indispensable to common comfort.

And then when an attempt is made to discontinue it, the discovery is made that it has planted a worse grief than that which it eradicated.

The symptoms of morphinism are apparently pretty much in Austria what they are in England….  On the psychical side are to be noted loss of memory, suicidal tendencies, and a moral deterioration comparable to what is seen in chronic alcoholism.  Falsehood, which is first had recourse to in order to conceal or palliate the evil habit indulged in, soon pervades the whole mind, and the morphinist becomes the prolific father of lies upon all subjects, and even when the truth would serve as well.

So addiction really is a disease after all.  That causes lying.  And I am a drug addict and alcoholic.  I will return to take my seat at AA, and I would like to thank the Fellowship for keeping it warm for me all these years.

 

4 thoughts on “Addiction is a Disease!”

  1. My girlfriend is cute and smart and she’s an anime fan like me

    The other night she and I were cuddling in bed and she started humping me and whispering “oniichan oniichan” and that turned me the fuck on

    so I called her “oneechan” and then she stopped and looked at me and I said “what is it” to which she replied “I always wanted a twin brother so we could fuck all the time” (she’s an only child and all I have is a younger brother)

    so all night long we were humping and calling each other oniichan and oneechan and I came in my underwear and we were pretending we were brother and sister trying to sexually please each other without having sex and it was fucking hot

  2. 1 comment? Times are tough here at addiction myth.
    Keep em coming, I love the antagonistic nature of your blog.
    Oh and AA will have you back anytime so long as you get there an hour before mtg time to save a seat.
    Long live Wally George

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