What I Believe Substance Are

[ww2pigeon]

How Substance Abuse was explain to me. If I was using it to change the way I felt, acted, thought. If I was making choice that were NOT good for me while on it, if I was breaking the law, (ANY LAW). If it would stop me from feeling, then is was a substance.
I am a believer that once we trigger that obsession and compulsion to use, we active our disease. And we can become addicted to ANYTHING that alters out state of mind.
I know some who say smoking is not a substance because it doesn't do any of that, I don't agree anymore, I watch my mother slowly die of her addition to cigarette's , she smoked 5pks a day. Needle to say, I THINK it is one of the most cunning of all drugs. Because you really don't see the effects for years and you slowly don't see how 1 can turn into 20. I smoke to relieve stress, tension, socially, before I stopped I smoked 2pks a day. I thank God for putting it on my heart to quit.
It was hard for me to let this one go, I believed it to be my last vice and I didn't want to let go of it.

 

[TheMainException]

Cigarrettes are quite so a substance, as well as caffeine. Both alter the body and mind and caffeine is akin to cocaine on a lesser scale.

I don't think addiction is a disease. There can be addictive personalities...such as people who have two alcoholic parents and are prone to be addicted to things, but it is not a disease per se. However, it is MUCH harder for a person with an addictive personality to quit things. For some people, doing coke and quitting is as easy as shutting a book. For others, it will drag them in like a person caught by a shark. They might not want to go down, but that pull is so strong, they can't hardly help themselves and need a strong arm or ten to help wrench them from the jaws of that shark.

I believe ABUSING drugs and alcohol is the sin.

There are the people who do choose to be addicted. It's a strange place...but you can't really understand it unless you go there or want to go there. It's like understanding the mind of a serial killer.

 

[ww2pigeon]

James 3:2
For we all often stumble and fall and offend in many things. And if anyone does not offend in speech, he is fully developed character and a perfect man, able to control his whole body and to curb his entire nature.

Mark 9: 47 And if your eye causes you to stumble and sin, pluck it out ! it is more profitable and wholesome for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Hell.

 

[MyHeroIsJesus]

I decided to pray on this for a while.

 

[Angeldove97]

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