Advice to a Drug Addict
 "Since there is glaring evidence all over of the damage that drug taking has
done to people both physically and spiritually as well as the adverse and
detrimental effects it has on society, I do not wish to emphasise and elaborate
on its harms. However, I do request you to take heed and ponder over the
following points:
MILLIONS TO BUY HEALTH
People, everywhere, are found to be spending millions in order to buy
health. We have not found anyone spending money to buy ill-health. Millions are
spent on health foods, proper diets, exercise equipment and the like to get good
health. Not only do people exert themselves physically for good health but, they
freely spend their money as well to achieve this.
Therefore, consider whether you are buying health or ill health in spending
money on drugs. Be it cocaine, crack, heroin or Marijuana, ill health is being
purchased sometimes at an astronomical cost. Is it not foolish to spend money to
buy sickness, disease and ill health?
Then consider how ironic it is that the consequences of such expenditure are
that you cannot think straight and you indulge in deeds or actions you would
never otherwise think of doing in your right frame of mind.
FORTUNES TO BUY RESPECT
Then again, consider the many people who are spending fortunes at the
doors of courts to buy their respect, which they deem they lost in the form of
defamation of character. Such people will be proud and happy when judgment is
given in their favour and it is found that indeed they had been defamed, their
good character had been tarnished and a bad image had thus been created.
Thus, when a person successfully sued for defamation of character, he is
rewarded a sum of money - the value and worth of his name and character! All
this trouble for what? For his respect and dignity back. If it was due to a
newspaper article, then he requests a written apology as well.
People spend hundreds of thousands on lavish weddings, birthdays, engagement
functions, etc. Presidents spend millions of taxpayers monies on inauguration
celebrations. All this for what? Name, respect and honour. So, whether justified
or not, money is spent to ‘buy’ respect and honour.
RESPECT
What does a drug addict do? He spends his money buying disrespect,
distrust, shame, humiliation and disgrace. Who respects a drug addict? Who would
like to give his daughter in marriage to a drug addict? How many marriages have
ended and how many relationships and friendships have been severed due to the
same?
As a result of drug addition, you are not trusted at home .. your father
hides his cash and your mother hides her jewellery due to the fear that their
son would stoop to any level to maintain his drug addiction. Neither are you
trusted in the business you work for your employer will be wary and
perpetually on guard due to the same fear. Is this a respectable life?
If on the other hand you seek employment and your habit is known, then you
get a straightforward ‘No’ as an answer.
TRAUMA
What of the trauma that young and innocent children have to experience
and endure, having to contend with a father who has a very, very shameful habit?
What of the negative effect this evil addiction has on the education and
upbringing of those children? What if they follow suit - take to the same habit
and lead the same miserable, unhappy life? What of the stigma that you carry for
the rest of your life?
These are the returns on money squandered in supporting a thriving drug
market.
A friend is one who is concerned about a friend’s welfare and health. An
enemy desires the destruction of a person’s life, health, wealth and respect. So
can the ‘friend’ who encourages you or offers you drugs be called a friend? Nay,
he is your enemy. He is encouraging you to destroy your happiness, your
marriage, your family, your respect your life.
MY ADVICE
Whenever you buy drugs, stop.
Look at it carefully
Think. Contemplate. Ponder. Reflect: "If this goes into my system, then what?
Then the consequences that follow will be harmful, injurious and detrimental
to my health; that same health which is a priceless gift, blessing and bounty of
Allah Ta’ala and for which I will be accountable on the Day of Qiyaamat.
GRATITUDE
What will be my reply when Allah Ta’ala will say, ‘We granted you sound
and healthy limbs … hands, feet, eyes, ears, nose, etc. What have you done to
express your gratitude for all these gifts?’ And what will be my reply when
questioned as to how I spent the wealth given to me by Allah Ta’ala.
Added to this, this drug is most damaging to my respect and dignity in
society. I will be denounced and condemned by society because I am another
problem to them."
FLUSH IT AWAY
After having pondered in this manner, throw it into the toilet and flush
it away before it flushes more of your health, wealth and respect away. Insha
Allah, within a flush or two of a few drugs, a change of company and by
attendance of Deeni programmes your habit will be flushed away.
Finally, say to the friend who is encouraging you to take drugs: ‘If you are
my friend, then you would not help in the destruction of my body and soul. By
offering me drugs, you are increasing my dependence on something most ruinous to
my health and respect. Your ‘moral support’ is imbibing more poison into my
system. The friendship you thus express and project is in reality one of enmity.
Since such friendship is no friendship farewell.’
There is enough information at this website for you to totally recover
from any addiction, e.g., alcohol, crank, crack, heroin, opiates, sex and porn
addiction, overeating, computer addiction, gambling, or other personal behavior
that goes against your own better judgment.
Bookmark this website, now. Make this page your home base for a
few months, until you’re totally recovered from your addiction a
normal, healthy, securely abstinent person.
If you’re drinking/using today, you won’t learn much of anything. Come back
in the morning or when you aren’t under the influence.
To quit your addiction you must first stop drinking/using
long enough to learn AVRT®.
Addiction recovery is not a group project; it is an individual
responsibility. You are ultimately on your own.
There are no Rational Recovery groups anywhere in the world!
Your desire for support is nothing more, and nothing less, than a
plan to get loaded in the absence of support.
There is nothing in your past, in your genes, in your brain, or in your
personality that compels you to drink or use. Using is voluntary, purposeful
behavior.
The sole cause of your addiction is a voice in your head that
tells you to Do it! in a thousand different ways. That is your Addictive
Voice.
Personal problems don’t cause addiction; addiction causes your personal
problems.
Self-improvement does not result in addiction recovery. Recovery leads to
self-improvement.
You drink or use because you love to get high. Admit it!
The worst possible way to quit something you love is one-day-at-a-time.
Stay away from recovery groups of all kinds; you can’t possibly recover
there. They’ll never let you go, and you’ll be in recovery forever.
Stay away from shrinks; most substance abuse counselors are members of
recovery groups, unable to trust themselves without evening supervision. The
rest have never been addicted, and can only guess at what addiction is and what
to do about it.
Your physician can’t help you with your addiction; he may even be
supporting it. Most refer to recovery groups, to which many of them belong.
However, they do have good treatments for withdrawal, if you are in
danger of seizures.
Consider that the real truth about addiction and recovery lies in the
exact opposite of most popular beliefs.
Recall your original family values, the ideas about right and wrong you
knew by the age of 5 or 6. Those are your foundation for addiction
recovery.
Your beliefs about God are perfect for now. If you try to create a god of
your own understanding, it will only be made in the image of your addiction.
Seek God only if you are interested once you are fully recovered.
AVRT-based recovery is as difficult as you make it, and takes as long as
you choose.
If you won’t trust yourself, why should anyone else?
When to seek medical advice
Addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder, meaning you tend to fall back into
old addictive behaviors, including drug use, even after treatment. The sooner
you seek help, the greater your chances are for a long-term recovery. If you're
initially reluctant to approach a doctor, help lines or hot lines may be a good
place to start to learn about treatment. You can find these lines listed in the
phone book or on the Internet.
Because denial is often a characteristic of addiction, many people who are
addicted to or who abuse drugs won't seek medical treatment on their own. Family
members, friends or co-workers may need to persuade the user to undergo
screening for drug addiction. Breaking a drug addiction may involve counseling,
an outpatient treatment program or residential treatment. |
