Addiction

  To be able to have any chance of explaining what addiction is, it is probably best if I use a metaphor? Imagine that you are a high speed sports car, but there is a problem in your design? Although you love to run full out and open on the highway, and you can maneuver like nobody else can while driving, you are unaware of even the simplest of driving rules? Because even though you are a highly toned fast machine, you have only two speeds? Full on, balls to the wall, pedal to the metal, and the other? Dead stop. Because of this, you are too often apt to not even see the yellow caution light that warns to slow down, so that you are able to stop in time, and avoid a very dangerous collision!
  We see only two colors when we drive without regards for anything else, Red, and green, we are color blind when it comes to any caution. There is some good news here though? Some like myself, who have finally seen an end to it, only made it because we found something else to go after with the same abandon. For me, and most all of the others who have left the hell that is drug addiction behind, now use that same hell bent for leather mentality, into knowing God.
  Earlier on, back when on another post, I used yet another metaphor when I said that, Once I used to fill my veins with the very best that this world has to offer in the way of peace, But now, I raise up the spike of truth, and inject the Holy Spirit into my heart.
  Enough of that, I can only hope that it was made a more clear understanding for you? If you have children, and you see the news reports of kids dying in the streets fighting over the money created by this desire to find peace, and you are also alarmed as the death counts due to overdose rise, you say, how can we know, what signs should we watch for, so as to know when our child is considering such a move? First, understand that he or she is rebellious by nature, and so if you lay down the law and order them not to do it, what you have accomplished by your constant warnings and scoldings, is that your kid who looks always first to rebel is more apt, now more then ever to go ahead and try it anyway.
What is needed is for you as the parent to understand what it is that you are talking about, and to be fair to you who have tried to reason with them and failed, you only failed because in reality, you hadn't told them much that they didn't already know?
  Am I advocating that you should rush out and try narcotics so that you will know how to explain it? Of course not. But what I am telling you that drugs of all kinds are already on the streets, and all attempts so far by this misguided war on drugs has only made the problem ten times worse! The key is to control the market by law rather then by those who look only to profit from it, and could really care less about your kid. Education is the answer, but it will not stem the tide overnight, but in time, it will bring about very positive changes to our society as we have an open understanding of what it is that we are up against. It is time to put away the battering rams, and to collectively, pick up a book, or seek out someone who really understands what he is talking about.