One of the central difficulties in thinking effectively about drugs and addictions lies in the fact that the whole business is befuddled by    propaganda, outdated information and superstition.  NLP brings some wonderful tools to the discussion but before those tools can be effective, we need to clear the air.

 

 

 

Whenever people begin to talk about drugs (including alcohol) the following ideas are trumpeted as fact:

• Addiction is a progressive chronic disease that ends in death.
• There is some identifiable thing called addiction.
• All drug use inevitably leads to addiction.
• Certain drugs have the specific property of being addictive.
• Certain people are born with addictive personalities.