Ummmm... injuries did NOT get them addicted.
The spirits they submitted to, did. The injuries they suffered were the occasion of meeting a temptation. Maybe they were a bit self pitying in the wake of what transpired, rather than continuing to look forward to the best health possible in the face of the challenges.
By the way, 12-step programs as we know them today are a bowdlerization of what Alcoholics Anonymous started up with as an explicit concentration upon the Lord Jesus Christ. It has always seemed to me that a higher power, for me to submit to it, needs to show its credibility. It cannot be a puppet at my control.
Let’s not compartmentalize away human responsibility.
I’m sorry but injuries did get these men started, they just didn’t say hey I’m going to start taking hydrocodone and Oxycontin, it doesn’t work that way.
“By the way, 12-step programs as we know them today are a bowdlerization of what Alcoholics Anonymous started up with as an explicit concentration upon the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Where in the 12 steps is Jesus Christ mentioned, I’ll help you out it’s not, but God as we know him is mentioned several times. There has never been any specific religious teaching in AA from it’s creation.
“Let’s not compartmentalize away human responsibility.”
We don’t look at would of, could of and should of. we work with where they are at this point. We don’t point out their downfall’s, that’s up to them to discover and hope that that void in their life is replaced by a spirituality of their choosing.