Drug Relapse
Relapsing back to drug abuse . .
and drug addiction is probably the most heartbreaking thing that can happen to a family. The one person who is trying not to feel the pain and loss are the people who relapse back to drugs. Drug relapse can happen gradually or quickly.
Sometimes a person who successfully broke their cycle of addiction ( Narconon – End Relapse ) and got their lives in control, will relapse back to old habits and behaviors. If a person has a drug relapse, and they are abusing meth, cocaine, pills, heroin etc they’re getting into trouble again.
Some believe that drug abuse is simply a sin or wrong action. I believe they are making life unreal, on purpose.
People either confront life and deal with the situations or they run away from living. Drug use and addiction is like driving while drunk. The drunk driver may claim they are either too nervous to drive sober, it’s simply more fun to drive when the road is moving or some other justification.
Relapsing back to drug abuse is very much like drunk driving. The drug abuser knows that their relapse will destroy everything they’ve worked so hard for. Possibly like Mitch Hedberg, the hilarious comedian, they have a death wish and act out someone else’s disaster movie.
Mitch Hedberg almost lost his leg due to heroin addiction. After 6 months of recovery, he relapsed back to heroin and joked about dieing young like Jim Morrison. Mitch was not able to be himself and so died from an overdose of heroin and other medical drugs in his early 30s. He acted out his own tragedy and even forecast it’s ending.
Why do people relapse back to drug abuse?
I’m sure it’s different for every person. Some due to sadness or a melancholy feeling that lasts just a bit too long. Others may relapse because they can’t face a simple reality, life doesn’t always give you what you want when you want it. Yet for others relapse tells one and all that there is more for them to deal with – and until they do, they will purposefully send their lives out of control.
There is one thing for sure, and please take this as an optimistic view of living. As a the great motivational speaker Les Brown said in his book: “You can’t always get what you want. But you always get what you are”.
I don’t believe people are inherently drug addicts or drug abusers. This is a foreign and artificial condition of living in this 21st century society with drugs and meds pushed at us from every angle. I believe that drug abusers revert because they have yet to effectively and honestly deal with an emotional, physical, mental or social issue that they just haven’t got a grip on.
Drug abusers relapse to escape back into the oblivion of never mind. Where unreality seems like for a moment at least, that nothing that mattered matters anymore. And relapse back to drug abuse to hope that things that are false and phony, could maybe for a short time be real in their illusive world of self deception.
Drug abusers are painting tombstones on reality in the hope that the living will reach out and help the drug abuser change their stroke and find hope and reason for living in the real world once again.
Tibor A. Palatinus, Ending Relapse for Good