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The Scarletizing of “The Addict” Addiction is not a choice. It is not a character flaw or ethical failure. It is not a symptom of a morally corrupt human being. Those who share the life of an “addict” are not co-conspirators or accomplices who aid and abet alcohol and drug use. They are human beings too, who love and cherish the “addict” as deeply as anyone loves another. “Othering” the parents of the addict, stigmatizing non-traditional families, labelling with concepts of brokenness the single mother who is struggling to survive, the absent father, the unemployed, racialized minorities, siblings and friends who may have also used drugs with “the addict,” – all of these are merely a projection. They represent nothing more than an avoidance of the disturbing reality that addiction can happen to anyone. It can happen to your son, daughter, sister, brother, wife, husband, mother, father, grandparent, aunt, uncle, colleague, or friend. Addiction can happen in the traditional nuclear family. Addiction could happen to you. Addiction occurs insidiously and mercilessly. The changes in personality and behaviour is initially nebulous and if unchecked morphs relentlessly into a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde persona. “The addict” becomes unrecognizable to those dearest and closest who are abandoned to a grief that society fails to recognize. He or she has boarded a train to which loved ones are denied access, a train from which there is rarely an exit. The journey often ends tragically in institutionalization and/or death. Shaming and blaming “the addict” is disturbingly reminiscent of the Puritanical projections in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. The means by which our society Scarletizes the addict reveals not the sins of a human being, but the inconvenient truths society refuses to allow into conscious awareness. Addiction is not a disease. The dichotomous thinking styles of those who regard “the addict” in terms of binary opposites, from a framework of good and bad, moral and corrupt, and those who regard dependency as a function of a diseased mind, might offer meaning and security in a chaotic world, but it clouds our ability to see the big picture. Our society’s propensity for black-and-white-conceptualization shows a kind of tribal thinking that clouds our ability to look at life from eyes other than our own. It is a kind of thinking style that shields us against larger truths but paradoxically locks us into a lower level of consciousness. We live with illusion that we are operating with love and altruism while acting together in a unified front that reinforces our sense of virtuousness notwithstanding the glaring social and political inequities that bespeak a different truth. The big truth about addiction is that the behaviour of “the addict” cannot be modified with behavioural modification techniques and cannot be treated with a “disease-based” medical model while ignoring the powerfully influential interaction of sociocultural and humanistic influences. The big truth is that addiction is not a chronic noncommunicative disease that can be managed with an evidence-based disease model. We need to abandon the assumptions under which we are operating and open our minds and hearts to new ways of seeing. “The addict” is a human being in a profound state of physical and/or psychological suffering. He or she is rarely blameworthy of anything more than the same imperfections manifesting in each of us. The most entrenched “addicts” are often the victims of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of those with institutionalized powers or those entrusted with their care. Others have been removed from their homes and robbed of HYBRID loving family, community, land, language, and heritage by those who ruthlessly exploited the powers vested in them. Many were the victims of abandonment by those who abdicated their responsibilities, and who were never made accountable for their actions. A significant majority of “addicts” are those who also suffered physical and/or sexual abuse in a society that turned and turns a blind eye to physical, sexual, and financial abuse committed under the patriarchal umbrella. Many were refugees escaping impossible life circumstances and turned into “sex slaves.” Some were human beings who were betrayed and deceived by others, who suffered unspeakable trauma, and abandoned and left destitute by society. A significant number of those “addicts” suffer from the painful aftermath of injuries sustained in sports, motor vehicle accidents, and falls. These individuals became the unwitting victims of the pharmaceutical industry’s exploitive practices, which implicated thousands of pharmacists and physicians in the reckless and unethical dispensation of opiates. An alarming number of those suffering from addictions have been the victims of Intimate Partner Violence. In the context of a legal system that goes to remarkable lengths to safeguard the rights of the accused, virtually nothing is done to protect the rights of the victim. The classic remedy of a “Restraining Order” offered to a woman who fears for her life and for the safety of her children, can be more like a red flag to a bull than a functional means of 0 % BACK ON SELECTED NEW VEHICLES 2022 FORD MAVERICK XLT HYBRID SUPERCREW AWD $16 50 DAILY $21 78 DAILY 2021 FORD RANGER XLT $305 BI-WEEKLY 3 IN STOCK stk #nra10515 $232 $36,635 BI-WEEKLY 4 IN STOCK stk #MLD84666 $46,618 $28 DAILY 2021 FORD BRONCO BIG BEND $17 46 DAILY 2021 FORD F-150 4X4 stk #MRA82205 protection. Those with policing powers rarely intervene when a victim is at imminent risk of serious harm, even when the victim is living in a state of terror. Unless, and until the victim has been grievously wounded, the justice system offers little protection from the truly dangerous offender. Physicians with knowledge and authority to act, who can protect society’s most vulnerable, protect themselves, fearful of liability for wrongful detention. A significant number of those with addictions have experienced “mild” traumatic brain Injury. Many of those have a lifetime history of multiple brain injuries that traumatically batter the brain and set the stage for the longterm sequelae of neuropsychiatric symptoms known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). CTE is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that initially looks like dementia but evolves into what historically was regarded as “traumatic insanity” with homicidal and suicidal ideation, persecutory delusions and substance abuse. 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injury (a pre-concussive incident) can set the brain on fire: a neuroinflammatory process can be unleashed and foreshadows neuronal death, brain mis-circuitry, and a depression in brain function. One single traumatic brain injury can unleash a cascade of symptoms that can affect every organ in the body: cognitive changes, changes in personality and behaviours, sensory (visual and hearing impairments), motor impairments (difficulties walking, talking, swallowing, and breathing), sleep impairments (insomnia, nightmares with catastrophic ideation. REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder), psychiatric impairments (anxiety, depression, suicidality), depressed immune function, and persistent pain. Functional impairments in all areas of life compromise an individual’s ability to contribute to life and to sustain relationship with others. In a desperate attempt to manage the symptom cascade, a complicated and unhealthy relationship with alcohol and drugs invariably develops. Loss upon loss, loss of employment, loss of relationships, loss of driving privileges, loss of interest in life, create an unbearable sense of worthlessness with the devastating 2015 LINCOLN MKC AWD 4DR $ 22 DAILY 750,108 km stk#04016 $ 308 BI-WEEKLY $31,989 2015 DODGE RAM 1500 $ 24 DAILY 170,811 km stk#94705 $ 339 BI-WEEKLY $34,989 2017 FORD ESCAPE SE $ 14 DAILY white stk#18445 $ 194 BI-WEEKLY loss of meaning and purpose in life. In the context of the battered brain, the use of alcohol and drugs is like throwing gasoline on a raging fire. Every person whom we regard as “the addict,” is a human being who has suffered tremendous emotional and/or physical trauma. “The addict” does not deserve to be pathologized, demonized, shamed, punished, or imprisoned. “The addict” does not deserve to be “Scarletized.” We are like the Captain on a Ship of Fools, allegorically described in Plato’s Republic. Jam-packed with society’s most unwanted, the ship sailed the seas in search of destinations where tickets to a freak show could be bought and sold, with a callous indifference and deafening silence to the agony of the profoundly disabled. How long will we continue to ignore the plight of “the addict?” As the numbers of those we refer to as “addicts” line our streets, flood our shelters, and plague our hospital emergency waiting rooms, AND as the frequency of accidental overdoses, toxic drug interactions, suicides, and other devastating losses associated with WE NEED PRE-OWNED WE WILL PURCHASE YOUR VEHICLE $23,989 MORE PRE-OWNED ARRIVALS 2016 DODGE RAM 1500 stk#16480 ........................................$45,989 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee 4WD Overland stock # 19195 .....$21,989 2019 Ford F-150 Lariat stock #10204 .................................. $55,989. 2010 Hyundai Santa Fe stock #84704 ...................................$11,989. 2013 Ford F-150 stock #98548 ............................................. $23,989. 2007 Chev Aveo stock # 76888 ............................................... $5,989 2021 Ford Bronco Sport stock #24808 ..................................$41,989. 2005 Mazda Mazda3 5dr Wagon Sport stock# 46375 ......... $9,989. 2016 Ford Edge Titanium AWD stock # 69110 ...................... $32,989 $3000 Down or trade equity/6.99%/OAC, all administration documentation fees included in stated bi-weekly/daily payment from/1.9%CPO units only. 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