{"id":13221,"date":"2023-08-29T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=13221"},"modified":"2023-09-21T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T08:33:23","slug":"the-war-on-drugs-inner-dissociation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/dependency-addiction\/the-war-on-drugs-inner-dissociation","title":{"rendered":"The War on Drugs<\/s> Inner Dissociation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The war on (hard) drugs is a failed war because drugs are not the core of the problem by themselves. The latter lies in-depth \u2015 not only in the user but also in the environment, the broad culture, and the immaturity of the human being.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Consciousness and proneness to addiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Profoundly, they are about the same mechanism: self-perpetuating mental-neuronal patterns (MNPs) \u2015 see e-book 3<\/a>. These enable one to hold on to mental content persistently and consistently enough for it to functionally become a \u2018mental concept\u2019 or \u2018mental construct\u2019 that can reach conscious awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without this self-perpetuation, we would have no consciousness. With little self-perpetuation, we would have little consciousness, although there would still be the possibility of addiction. For instance, rats can be addicted to opioids to the point they die by forgetting to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, in the case of human complex mentality, the self-perpetuation of MNPs quickly overshoots toward inner dissociation<\/a>, making the person prone to ‘always more and never enough.’ In this vein, self-perpetuation is central to many complex forms of addiction. The addict is drawn into this even if he knows and wants better. Once the addiction has taken hold, it\u2019s much more powerful than he imagined \u2013 or others imagine \u2013 because it is central to thinking itself. This is why the addictive experience can readily feel \u2018familiar\u2019 to the addict \u2015 like a safely coming home even before<\/em> the drug is taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to think yourself out of something that has taken your thinking as a hostage. However, waging war on consciousness itself will never do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Intertwined with other MNPs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The drug-related MNPs are so profoundly and multiply intertwined with other MNPs that it\u2019s impossible to take them out in any clean way. Compare it to an aggressive cancer embedded with many slings into surrounding tissue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the addict, trying to draw or cut the addiction out just like that is highly hurtful \u2015 making him think even more that the addiction is for life. Withdrawal can feel like mentally dying. It makes him believe that the addiction has taken over all control, that he himself has become a robot who can only obey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, that is not the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delving very deep<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herein, we encounter the inner dissociation aspect, which gets power from the person, the environment, and even geopolitical dissociation<\/a>. One needs to go even deeper to counter this with something more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making this journey together with a group can help. However, not from the idea that the group is necessary and that one would be helpless without the group. Even in a group setting, the depth is eventually effective \u2015 not the experiences but the profound<\/em> experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transforming the mental cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This can only be done sustainably from the inside out. No addict will ever be helped straightforwardly by something\/someone on the outside. If the addict does feel helped, it is from what this outside means to him inside \u2015 like any symbolic action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is: what is deeply meaningful to the addict. Sadly, the addiction itself frequently makes it more difficult to reach. The addiction can destroy what lies deep inside \u2015 making inner dissociation more powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge becomes bigger through this, while the principle remains the same:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get deep, to beneath the dissociation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, let it grow, even when the growing gets tough. It is the only durable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any war on drugs that counters this is self-defeating.<\/p>\n

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