And so you think "crack" is addictive....PLEASE.

These days it seems like almost every talkshow on t.v. is either about screwing your best friends boyfriend or you're addicted to crack. Well the screwing your best friends boyfriend will always be a topic but I am so sick and tired of these people who cry addiction to crack or cocaine. When are people going to realize that you don't become physically addicted to crack. It's all in your head. These people don't have a clue about addiction unless of course they have been addicted to heroin,loratabs,oxycodone,methadone or alcohol. These drugs creep into your muscles,joints and alcohol of course into your liver and brain and after just a few times of use the body craves and cries out for these substances. You smoke crack and the next day you're fine,no withdrawals,no pain,no side effects. I've talked to people that have smoked crack that have told me that they could do with it or without it but never have I talked to someone addicted to the other afore mentioned drugs that could say the same. Withdrawal from crack...waking up disgusted with yourself for spending all of your money and having nothing to show for it. Withdrawal from the other afore mentioned drugs...uncontrollable and unbearable cramping in the muscles and joints,vomiting,diarhea,sensitivity to light,inability to eat or drink anything oh and no sleeping. You see these drugs take away your bodies natural pain fighting defenses. These are called endorphyns. Endorphyns are the spongy cells that keep your bones from rubbing together. Without endorphyns in your body it's like your bones rubbing against each other and then colliding with your muscle tissue wearing it down to a thin wall of nothing.When you don't have the drugs in your body to fight the pain and no natural defenses either,imagine the pain. Or can you? There is absolutely no comparison to the two at all.Many times these people so called "addicted" to crack take up beds in rehabs that should be used for people who are really addicted to "real" drugs. It takes about 4 weeks after stopping the use of the drugs for your body to restore the natural endorphyns and then another 3 to 6 weeks to get your body back up to full potential. afterwards it is a daily struggle,unlike the simple no to crack. Alot of you will say that I'm talking out of my a** and that I haven;t got a clue but you are wrong. My life has not gone untouched by drug addiction. My older brother was and as far as I know is still addicted to anything he can get his hands on. I tried and tried to help him to overcome these addictions but to no avail. I  went on to study these "addictive" drugs so that I might one day find a way to save him from himself but I finally gave in to the wise words of my mother that you cannot help someone that doesn't want to be helped. I did find out though that the drug cocaine/crack is a mind drug not a body drug therefore the addiction you seem to think you have is only in your mind and if you control your thoughts and occupy your mind with more constructive ideas other than trying to smoke your brains out then you can overcome the craving of a mind drug such as crack cocaine. It is true though if you give in to these mind cravings long enough you can indeed screw your brain cells up but why do that when the craving is so easily controlled? Those of you with addictions to the other drugs I've mentioned I implore you to please seek professional help to make yourself well again. Just remember the good old days when your body was healthy and pain-free. It's a struggle but it's worth it. So all you so called "crack addicts" get over yourself and find something else to blame your useless life on. I'm sure you can think up something better. Now I've said my piece and given my opinion and of course everybody knows what they say about opinions.