Marijuana Addicts - There is Help
Hello, David L. here (Recovering Alcoholic/Addict)Many of us think that Marijuana is ok to use. Many think it should be legalized. And many think that since Marijuana comes from the earth starting out as a seed, that it is not harmful to your body or mind. I, David L. (Recovering Alcoholic/Addict) however came to believe that smoking pot for a long time is not only addictive but will eventually make you or turn you into a zombie. Many people who smoke Marijuana still believe that there is nothing wrong with smoking pot. Again, in my own personal opinion, not only does marijuana smother your lungs (it has been said that smoking one joint of Marijuana is almost the same as smoking two packs of cigarettes!) I really believe you can become addicted to Marijuana at one time in life especially if you smoke it everyday. I personally know people who cant even function wright unless they have there daily smoke or puff of a joint! I don't know about you but that sounds like addictive behavior. Below is some really good info on Marijuana abuse and addiction and possible ways to help the Cannabis addict.
What is a Marijuana Addict?
A marijuana addict's life story is manipulated by marijuana. Most people who smoke Marijuana falls back on the involvement altogether, their aspirations eventually disintegrate .
Marijuana (also known as Cannabis ) dependence is a continuous tense sickness frequently extending their own drug use to become addicted to other drugs, including alcohol.
The lives, thinking and desires of marijuana addicts center around marijuana--scoring it, dealing it and finding ways to stay high.
Addiction is a progressive, long-term continuing problem. When an addict tries to cease using and conks out since living without the drug is just overly too difficult, that's an addiction.
When an addict is positive that he or she can't live without marijuana, the dependence converts to a compulsion. When the addict uses even though he or she assured themselves they would not, this eventually turns out to become an obsession.
It's the nature of dependency that addicts do not conceive that they're ill. Marijuana addicts, particularly, lean to think that they must be “all right” because there are a great deal of drugs which are more high-risk, and additional folks whose lives are much more defective off as a consequence of their using. That's called self-denial.
We have discovered that addiction is a physical, mental and spiritual disease. The physical panorama is the obsession– the inability to cease when we have began.
The mental aspect is the compulsion, or the overwhelming desire to use, even when we're destructing our own lives and the lives of of which are our loved ones and family. The spiritual prospect of the disease is our absolute self-centeredness.
Propositions to Family Members & Friends of Marijuana Addicts
We addicts in recovery have ascertained, through the 12 Steps, that we're from each one responsible for ourselves and our processes.
If a dearest close loved one decides to help and aid a diversion to a particular crisi for the pot smoker addict, they detract the addict's chance to work it out, or go into the wrong direction all together.
This will make it more grueling for the addict to comprehend the trouble and set about seeking a solution if they even can.
As the addict comes near their "Rock Bottom" ( which is known as your worst case scenario ) and the way they live including the progression of their disease, many times the family members and friends have a leaning towards the pot smoker addict, providing them to defer the elemental recoils of their using.
Clearly, beloveds seek to alleviate the agony the addict might be experiencing because of commitment, love, caring, and a common sense of obligation.
Family and friends might contribute money (which likely endures the marijuana addict into buying more cannabis), buy food, pay up on rent and bills, bail bond them out of jail, and so forth. By attempting to salvage the addict from him or herself, you're doing both yourself and the addict a ill service.
Addicts frequently try to falsify and or plain out lie to their loved ones through the use of guilt feelings, fearfulness, and angriness.
This is a very most common maneuver applied (both consciously and unconsciously) by the addict to acquire what he or she wants by taking advantage of the emotions of those tightest to him or her.
When the Addict starts Recovery, We advise You TRY:
•Supporting the addict by altering your mental attitude and draw close to the trouble.
•Centering on YOURSELF and your own life. The recently clean addict will be doing the same. Living with an addict touches on everybody involved.
•Detaching yourself from the addict's demeanor. Separation isn't harsh. Detachment facilitates viewing states of affairs truthfully and objectively, therefore arriving at the most well-informed conclusions as imaginable.
•Being supportive. There possibly might be a significant quantity of time while both you and the addict adapt to a new way of living. Attempt to foster harmoniousness and equilibrate in that new life-style.
When the Addict starts out with their Recovery, We advise That You avert
•Attempting to pacify or patronize the addict.
•Checking out here and there to see if the addict is stoned or in self-possession of drugs or alcoholic beverages. However, attempt to not allow for the addict to take advantage of you or betray you. (This can be a tough one to get by on!)
•Lecturing, pecking or faulting the addict about former use or newfound soberness.
•Establishing threats, particularly if you're not set to carry them out.
Ward off False anticipations and look for agreement of understanding.
Once the addict breaks off using and begins the recovery operation, do not anticipate that their flaws and all the inconveniences of your shared lives will go away. You may discover, at the start, precisely the opposite.
Drug use was a managing mechanism for the addict. That coping mechanism will be “in the raw” awhile, particularly when detoxing. Do not anticipate that a striking confident personality change will instantly come about.
Once a marijuana addict starts attending meetings, there might be disturbance and disputes with your normal living agenda, procedures, and family responsibilities. This is where your compassionateness, patience, and encouragement will be addressed .
The time spent in the past by the addict in the pursuit of getting and remaining high may now be spent attending meetings, learning recovery literature, talking on the telephone with additional MA members, writing, contemplating, and praying.
These actions are of predominant importance to the recently clean addict and your reinforcement will be of eminent measure.
You might be surprised to discover that the addict at present takes a firm stand on attending to certain activities and obligations you found obligated to attend yourself in the yesteryear.
This isn't a time to condemn past doings, but an chance to rehearse entrust and benefaction. The consequence will make up the reciprocal payoff of sustaining a new and healthy human relationship.
We as humans can only be responsible for ourselves. This goes for both the addict and the person who cares. Choose every day, one at one time. Be fearless and pleased. Attempt to adapt yourself to what is, now. Beef up your own intellect and body, exercise your own psyche.
Support For You
Marijuana addiction in your kids, partner, or other beloveds is hard for you to endure with in healthy methods. You require accompaniment likewise. A few choices are twelve Step and support groups for friends and family, church service groups, and therapy.
These resources can instruct you how to live your life more full, no matter what your beloveds are doing. You might have the chance to talk about the unique problem of living with a beloved ones addiction.
It's significant to recollect that addiction is a disease which greatly affects the addict and those who love the addict.
What is Marijuana Anonymous?
Marijuana Anonymous is a companionship of men and women who partake in sharing their experience, durability, and desire with one another that they might figure out their most common troubles and assist other people with the same addiction to recover from Cannabis Addiction.
The only necessity for membership is wanting to stop using marijuana. There are no dues or fees for membership. Marijuana Anonymous is self-supporting through members' contributions.
Marijuana Anonymous isn't associated with any religious or secular institution or organization and has no opinion on any outside controversies or causes.
The primary purpose of its members is to stay free of marijuana and to help the addict who still suffers achieve the same freedom. This is done by practicing the suggested 12 Steps of recovery and by being guided by the 12 Traditions.
In the end, hope for recovery lies in the addict's power to acknowledge that they have a problem and that they require assistance. This is what we call a “bottom” or “moment of clarity.” The addict must have a true desire to stop using and the willingness to admit that the problem can't be met alone.
That's why Marijuana Anonymous exists. We're marijuana addicts ourselves and this is our message: Any addict can stop using, lose the compulsion and want to do so, and detect an endlessly more beneficial way of life by adopting the spiritual principles incorporated in the 12 Steps, one day at a time.
The Steps of Marijuana Anonymous
1.We admitted we were powerless over marijuana, that our lives had become unmanageable.
2.Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3.Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood God
4.Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
5.Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
6.Were entirely ready to have God remove these defects of character.
7.Humbly asked God to remove our shortcomings.
8.Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9.Made direct amends wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
10.Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
11.Sought though prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood God, praying only for knowledge of God's will for us and the power to carry that out.
