Forum: Close to Home
Topic: Do you think all people with addictions are more or less the same, or do they all have different traits and stories?
Topic Posted by: Close To HomeDate Posted: Wed Mar 18 15:22:22 1998
Posted by: Mahleah Chicetawn (Bodasfa@hotmail.com )
Date posted: Thu Jun 18 20:35:10 1998
Subject: Addictions
Message:
There is no difference when you are treating someone for an addiction. The reason why people choose to use drugs or alcohol or food or sex or gambling is the same regardless of the substance. Although people's "war stories" differ the common vein that runs through someone with an addiction is the same. That is why there is so much success in treating these diseases through rehab, therapy and 12 Step Programs. It works when you work it!!!
Posted by: Sober for 10 years and loving it
Date posted: Tue Mar 31 15:16:59 1998
Subject: Close to Home producers are clueless
Message:
Of course all addicts are different and have different traits and stories. Duh. The fact that the Close to Home producers posted this question shows how clueless they are. Are all diabetics the same?
I think the series sucks. I was especially dismayed at the first night. It was totally insensitive to show triggers to cravings and then not offer any help. How many addicts watching the show experienced cravings caused by the show? The best thing I could say about the producers is that they are insenstive. I think they are also possibly unethical. The show should offer help not triggers to cravings. (I also think the doctor studying cravings in unethical. She didn't really seem to have much interest in the addicts, just her research.) Back to the question about all addicts being the same: I think my main problem with the show is that it's written from the point of view of non-addicts who view addicts in a simplistic, prejudicial way.
Posted by: Suzanne Brask
Date posted: Mon Mar 30 15:04:31 1998
Subject: addiction
Message:
I was married to a person with a food addiction for over six years, I was hoping the show would have addressed food addiction. The consequences are very serious and severe for the addict and his family. Food addiction is not taken as seriously because the substance is not as foreign as drugs and alcohol. I hope that Bill Moyers will address this issue at sometime. When someone gains 100 pounds in under 4 years food is running their life just as completely as an addiction to drugs.
Posted by: AA in SF
Date posted: Mon Mar 30 13:43:41 1998
Subject: Same or Different??
Message:
This is one person's opinion aafter more than a few years attending AA meetings, working with other alcoholics and in the mental health field: alcoholics and addicts A variety of ways. They are typically wounded people, they are seekers, and they are highly complex people. The Moyer's special seemed to be slightly reductionistic and simplified.
Posted by: Matt SF
Date posted: Mon Mar 30 13:39:33 1998
Subject: SAME??
Message:
Are you serious??