Addiction is not a moral failing but a treatable illness .

[hazephase]

We alway look down at people that have a addiction . We think of them as some one who dose not have any morals but that is not the case as addictions are treatable illness and the person needs help .

[moja]

Absolutely. If we continue to rely on the morality conversation in our head, we will just continue to make ourselves wrong, be in pain and want to use. When we instead use the 12 tools of recovery - the steps - to create a loving, compassionate power greater than ourselves, we find that we no longer have to judge ourselves. By turning our will and our life over to the care of the God of our own understanding, we can ask for our God's help to do what works in our lives. The morality conversation begins to dissappear as does our pain and suffering.

[LW75]

Many addicts just made unwise decisions when they were young and found themselves getting in deeper and deeper.

Many people get addicted to something like painkillers because they've had something like chronic back pain and needed relief.

The one group of addicts that I do wonder about are the mature adults who get themselves hooked on illegal drugs. I certainly don't see it as a matter of morality. Its just that I think someone who is a good, solid, mature, chronological age who starts using illegal drugs must be emotionally immature.

In any case, you're right - becoming addicted is not a matter of morals.

Sometimes, though, the behaviors of the addict can become immoral behavior. (The addict who steals or gets violent to family members.) Maybe that's why some people associate lack of morality with addiction. I think if most people think it out they don't really see addiction, itself, as a matter of morality.

[jr_sci]

Addiction is curable when a person can make up his own mind. But its also true that we take up addiction when we get break down morally or emotionally.

[attagirl]

I think you will find that most people here agree because we have either known someone or experienced this ourselves. I agree that addicts are looked down on and that they are no different other than having lost their way in life. Detours are not always good, neither is the shortest path to get somewhere.

Addictions do occur when emotions are running rampid.Although I do believe morals can change when you are addicted, I do not beleive that morality and addiction go hand in hand.

[fever]

It is somewhat true that the persons who falls in some kind of addiction lose their moral and confidence to a large extent and they need love and affection to overcome

[Ronaldo]

Only love is such a medicine which can help a person to get out of addiction. Without love he will never meet the dead line.

[addictionstyle]

Drug addiction and alcoholism feel indignation at other chronic illnesses in regard to treatment response. The course that an drug addiction takes if left untreated is an important issue in this regard.