[Finny]

dhs12, prayers up for your family, including your daughter. Eastforker is right that it doesn't mean she was raised improperly. Each soul put on earth has its own row to hoe with regard to the challenges the Almighty put in front of it. May the Lord's light rest on you and bless you.

Legalization has nothing to do with it... it's always been available, and always will be... legal or not. Addiction is addiction, regardless of the substance-du-jour. One needs to deal with the addiction itself.

Cement -- YES. Blaming the booze, the pot, the "disease," for the problem is like blaming a gun for a shooting. The alcohol isn't what spoiled a beloved's life, and blaming it on the alcohol has given him a sympathetic out.

It's all behavioral. It's very difficult to accept. Thinking of it as a disease relieves self-responsibility, but if addiction is a disease, it's self-inflicted and self-cured, even if that self-cure requires the Lord. The truth is that addiction is behavioral, and in it lies as best a "solution" as one can find.

[ConservingFreedom]

Blaming the booze, the pot, the "disease," for the problem is like blaming a gun for a shooting.

Exactly.

[DiogenesLamp]

You are about the fifth person to use that nonsensical "guns are just like drugs" analogy.

No they are not. Guns do not tamper with the nerve connections inside your brain.

Guns do not interfere with the normal physiological process of your body.

[Finny]

rfreedom, my post #46 was actually intended for you ... somehow I had you confused with dhs. Prayers for your daughter.