Originally Posted by
BlueChair 
I dont know about all that, but the doctor at the rehab told me to think about it like diabetes. The diabetic cant eat sugar, my husband cant use cocaine or substances that mimic cocaine. The diabetic brain never forgets sugar, and many diabetics have emotional ties to sugar which makes them want sugar. My husbands brain wont forget cocaine, and he has many emotional ties to the drug that make him want it too. Diabetic eats sugar and gets sick, maybe dies. my husband uses drugs gets sick, maybe dies. Its not so complicated.
Ok here is another way of seeing it that I just saw in pravchaws blog.
If people were cucumbers, then an addct is a pickle and drugs are the brine. Once the cucumber becomes a pickle it will always be a pickle. It cannot ever be a cucumber again.
Sorry LMN for going OT on your thread. I'll try to sit on my hands.
