Why Do Addicts Attack and Insult Each Other?
Why is it that men and women in long term recovery resort to insults and calling other addicts in long term recovery “druggies’, “junkies”, “drug addicts” and other stigmatic names when they’re angry or mad at them? It just doesn’t make sense. While men and women in recovery are human and destined to get in arguments with one another, calling one another insulting names that only serves to further stigmatize addicts in inexcusable. And it happens all the time. If addicts in long term recovery can’t stop the stigma, how can we expect others to?
An Addicts Call to Stop the Stigma
Addicts in long-term recovery are desperate for a second chance at life. And while addiction treatment and recovery provides individuals with addiction issues with that chance, many people who either don’t understand addiction or have never been affected by it in someway often use stigmatizing names like those mentioned …