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Because when you come down to it, your "disease" is being a human being, and your life is just a relapse from death.
And the headspace you're in when you're actively using drugs... it's not all that different from the one that many of the people on the planet maintain throughout their lives. Most people are not all that deliriously happy or thrilled with things, most of the time. The only thing that separates you from them, is you have partially learned something they don't know about. If you're feeling like shit, or even if you're feeling really good, and just wanna get high - you have the knowledge that when you bring this or that molecule into your bloodstream and it attaches to the receptors it likes; everything's the same, but somehow totally different.
Having learned this, you cannot unlearn it.
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What all this means is: congratulations, you're human. Human beings are born to get high and seek altered states of consciousness. Sex, drugs, rock n' roll, religion, little kids spinning around in circles until they get dizzy. It's all the same thing.
If you have the specific goal of moving away from drug dependence, because due to various circumstances, the drugs in question are no longer "working" for you, or the consequences of continued use -- in current society -- are too high a price to pay. I can offer some very basic, and relatively simple advice.
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To simplify and condense things: drug-dependence involves a complex series of inter-related systems; psychology, biology and neurology. We can for example demonstrate that a specific strain of rat -- genetically bred to be extremely susceptible to "addiction" -- upon exposure to a particular molecule, will suddenly STOP HITTING THE LEVER.
Now this is interesting, 'cuz I mean, what happened...? Did the rat go to rodent therapy and work out its lousy childhood, gain insight into its self-destructive behavior, and connect itself to a higher power of its understanding? Uhm... Probably not.
The only higher...
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