Diseasing of America: How We Allowed Recovery Zealots and the Treatment Industry to Convince Us We Are Out of Control by Stanton Peele

Author:Stanton Peele [Peele, Stanton]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug Addiction, Sociology
Publisher: Broadrow Publications
Published: 2016-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

The typical pattern of the heroin user seems to be to use a wide variety of drugs plus alcohol. The stereotype of the heroin addict as someone with a monomaniacal craving for a single drug seems hardly to exist in this sample. Heroin addicts use many other drugs, and not only casually or in desperation.

In other words, people who become heroin addicts take a lot of drugs, just as kids who use cocaine are more likely to smoke cigarettes and use marijuana heavily.

Some people seem to behave excessively in all areas of life, including using drugs heavily. This even extends into legal drug use. For example, those who smoke also drink more coffee. But this tendency to do unhealthy or antisocial things extends beyond the simple use of drugs. Illicit drug users have more accidents even when not using drugs.11 Those arrested for drunk driving frequently also have arrest records for traffic violations when they aren’t drunk.12 In other words, people who get drunk and go out on the road are frequently the same people who drive recklessly when they’re sober. In the same way, smokers have the highest rates of car accidents and traffic violations, and are more likely to drink when they drive.13 That people misuse many drugs at once and engage in other risky and antisocial behaviors at the same time suggests that these are people who don’t especially value their bodies and health or the health of the people around them.

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