Interesting Quotes Related To Addiction And Recovery

There's no quick fix for misery of drug addiction

Vaccine may have uses but it doesn't solve problem

By Jon Ferry, The Province

Anti-drug crusader Al Arsenault, a former longtime downtown Vancouver cop, agrees there's no quick fix to drug addiction: "There's no drug that makes you do the emotional and mental work you have to do to resolve your problems. That's the vaccine that doesn't exist."

Yes, the addict's best friend isn't another pill. It's that uniquely human trait we call free will — the ability to choose options other than just injecting one poison after another into our bodies.

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• I think the writer is correct in his position that drug addiction cannot be cured with more drugs.
• I think the writer is incorrect in his suggestion that drug addiction is as simple as free will.
• Drug Addicts are people escaping pain who have severely damaged thinking and feeling patters. Free will isn't enough to save them.
  
• Drug Addicts need a loving family, a safe home, a good life. The same things that keep us "normal" people away from drugs.