How an Addict Thinks

Busting Addiction and Its Myths

In this podcast, entitled 'How an Addict Thinks', we cover the major cause of the disease and learn that:

1. Addiction is classified by scientists as a brain disorder, a change in the structure of the brain itself, caused by consistent, prolonged use of drugs and/or alcohol.
2. The addiction causes the addict (or alcoholic) to crave, seek and use the drug regardless of devastating life consequences. The addict has lost any semblance of self-control by this stage.
3. The addict will relapse even after long periods of sobriety unless he is part of a recovery support program, such as Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous (AA or NA).
4. He will undergo profound personality changes such as sociopathic-like thinking, attacking loved ones to defend his use of drugs, seeing the loved one as the problem, and putting more weight on how he appears to others because of his own shame and low self-esteem.