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Using medication to stay sober

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Maximilian:

--- Quote from: "psy" ---Ya know. I was just thinking, Max.  Don't you think you're substituting one addiction for another when you go to meetings?  I mean you're dependent on them, right?
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--- Quote ---Note that both William H. White, in Slaying The Dragon, page 77, and Bill Pitmann, in AA: The Way It Began, page 171, attribute that dipsomania quote to William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience, (page 263), not to Carl Jung. For good reason — footnote 1 on page 263 of Varieties says:
'"The only radical remedy I know for dipsomania is religiomania," is a saying I have heard quoted from some medical man.'
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I know what you're saying, but I, personally at least, don't think going to meetings or finding God through religion is anywhere near as unhealthy or as dangerous as a serious alcohol or drug addiction. If people use pot to quit drugs that are hurting them, I'm all for it. Whatever works for people I support, even if it's not AA. If somebody had a solution that worked for everybody, they would be a billionaire. unfortunately addiction isn't that easy to cure, it's more like a lifetime condition where you treat the symptoms, that's how I see it at least.

DannyB II:
For some of us addicts Max, you are absolutely right about treating the symptoms. I never really expect anyone to truly understand addiction unless you have been through it. Mr. Jung heard all about Sigmund Freud's addiction to Cocaine but he still acknowledged his naivety.

reformed12stepper:
I think it depends on the person. it is one of those really individual things. I didnt want to go the drug route because it did feel like replacing one drug with another. But I took antidepressants for a little bit as i was at the time clinically depressed. As this lifted i cut down and am now totally chemically free  :seg: (unless coffee and the occasional drink count)
Many people with addiction problems have a number of issues to deal with some of which are mental health related so for them i can see how psych drugs are a good idea. I have heard of this pill but my understanding is that it is for pretty hardcore alcoholics. I met a bloke in rehab that it worked wonders for and another lady from AA who said it was hellish. I have also heard very mixed reviews about methodone treatment for heroin users. I met another person who went through a rehab that was pretty down on chemicals and only used vitamins and they say this helped. I guess either way i wouldn't try any chemical solution without medical advice.

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