Here's a little something for all you addicts out there, all you sad excuses for human beings who make your mothers cry for you and then steal from her purse, you who bleed your families both financially and emotionally and still rant that somebody owes you something, you who reproduce freely and then don’t have the instinct left in your drug-addled gourds to parent, you who couldn’t give a flip what misery the people who love you are in as long as you can stay high.
You’re no victim, except possibly one of bad decisions. The victims are the people around you.
A program won’t help you, because you have no desire to be helped.
Pain is a part of life, and your discomfort is as inconsequential as everyone else's. Your distress is nothing but an excuse, a flimsy premise you employ to justify being a parasite, a leech on the world’s backside.
Jesus is not coming from the sky on a cloud to personally take your sorrow, no matter what you may have been led to believe. It doesn’t work that way.
Your creator gave you a mind and an initial moral compass and a few basic instructions and expected you to run with it. You sat down on the sidewalk and waited for someone or something to come along and make your world a perfect little gumdrop land, and when no one showed up, you punked out.
You have most likely been told that you are sick, afflicted  with a disease and that you can’t help the condition you find yourself in.
Weakness is not a disease. Leukemia is a disease. Saying that addiction is a chronic brain disease suggests that an addict's disembodied brain holds the secrets to understanding and helping him. Calling an addiction to drugs a disease is insulting to people who are sick.
Try telling someone with viral meningitis that you are sick because you are hooked on pharmaceuticals. A junkie doubled over in misery from withdrawal can't reasonably be expected to get up and walk away, but he can grow a backbone and make a decision to get clean. Try that approach with breast cancer and see how clean you get.
You have made a conscious choice. You're not sick, you're too spineless to face everyday life.
A great many people and institutions have tried to help alcoholics and drug addicts. There are thousands of different programs in the United States alone trying to assist people who have a problem with drugs or alcohol. Yet, the success rate for these programs is extraordinarily low considering the effort and investment being made.
There are many reasons why these programs are not working, but the main reason has yet to be realized. The programs are not working because they're based on false assumptions of human nature.
Destigmatizing addiction by claiming the addict has no control over his actions overlooks the healthy role that a nice, big, dose of shame can play. There is less wrong with being ashamed than with being useless and a burden on the rest of society.
If you have a substance abuse problem, you must make an effort to beat your addictions. If addiction is a disease, it is the only one that must be cured from within. Grow up.