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The absolutely accurate word used to describe that level of addiction in Christian theology is "slavery" Completely captures the idea of unmitigated subservie

• spurgu 5y ago
  > drug or alcohol master. Nitpicking, but since political correctness seems to be all the rage nowadays, please consider removing "or alcohol" from that sentence (at least mentally) since alcohol is a drug, just like heroin or coffee or nicotine or LSD, only with varying degrees of effects, damage and dependency. Disclaimer: Have tried most common drugs at least once in my life and find alcohol to be one of the most dangerous ones, since dependency tends to creep up so slowly (years) and is practically impossible to get rid of once acquired, barring abstaining completely. Edit: Saw that you replied but then deleted, referring to common parlance of the English language. Yes, that's exactly why I posted this. It's established (boomer) language to say "drugs and alcohol" and it needs to change. Hence I referred to changing the sentence mentally. This change will take time though and/but it'll happen, one person at a time. I suppose people seem to look at "drugs" as illegal drugs and everything legal as non-drugs. So now with weed widely decriminalized it'd go from "drugs or alcohol" to "drugs or alcohol or weed". Maybe? /tangent Edit2: I also suppose people don't want to look at themselves as drug users. This is probably due to anti-drug propaganda, associating any drug user with a "junky". It's also a mental image that needs to change. Most people in the western world are functional drug users and that's fine. Or should be.
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