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"People with some time under their belts, need to talk about the difference between being powerless over a disease and being powerless over a specific drug. Entirely different philosophies in my opinion."--Greit
Here's how I look at it. The reason I started coming to NA in the first place was to deal with some problems I was having with particular drugs. I began to understand that I was powerless over these drugs and that they had made my life unmanageable. But I was also using many other drugs at the time. Maybe I could handle those other drugs. Heck, there are new drugs coming out every day. Maybe I could use those drugs successfully. The problem with this type of thinking is that it wasn't just about the specific drugs. I am very confident that I would develop problems with other drugs if I used them as a substitute for the drugs that were giving me problems. I am just that kind of person: I am a drug addict. That's what it means for me to be powerless of my addiction today. I can't use any mind/mood altering drug recreationally without reverting to my addictive patterns of using and all the problems these lead to.
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