Have you ever suffered from drug addiction? How did you get out/how are you coping with it?

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AlfredoTurkey said:

People have long since ignored the science and psychology of addiction. The same can be said about things like depression. People who do not suffer from something can't fully understand it. From their point of view, it's just stupid people being stupid etc. They ignore the science, because if they didn't, it would force them to have a different point of view and put themselves in a place of luck, not success. See, if someone walks around thinking that addiction is pure choice and depression is "just a bad mood", then that makes them strong and intelligent. It makes them feel like they're a better person. It validates their self-worth. If they buy into the science of it all, then all of a sudden, theyre just lucky. They're not better, more intelligent, tougher etc. They just won out in some random genetic game of chance and had all of that handed to them.

To understand human behavior, you have to get into the psychology of it all. Once you do, everything becomes really fucking clear and people become really fucking predictable and obvious. 

You said it so well here. It's all about how the addiction is created and maintained within the human psyche and the exterior life circumstances revolving around it. The majority of these things are out of our control even if we want to believe we are conscious of all the choices which may or may not lead to addiction.