"Inoculate or Inculcate?"

Should we instruct our children to avoid drug/alcohol misuse by inculcating values or by introducing them to particular hygienic and pharmaceutical protocols so they don’t catch the “disease” of addiction?

If someone you know is misusing substances and their life exhibits disruption, dysfunction or destruction, should you appeal to their common sense or immediately defer to a medical practitioner?

If a loved one is in active addiction, they may need medical intervention to stabilize their condition. After they have regained a measure of stability, should you relegate them to a medical model of treatment as the primary means of supporting their “life-long” recovery? Relabel them addicts/alcoholics thereby circumventing their hopes and dreams. Promote their stigmatization by encouraging them to “come out” as a person in “sustained remission”? To be preoccupied with their sobriety?

Or would you rather see them immersed in a category-transforming program of instruction that restores their self-respect, familial functioning, and active citizenship? To find happiness in being other-centered instead of self-centered.

To understand that being available, which assumes sobriety, is a gateway to personal growth, peppered with opportunities for emotional and spiritual expansion.

Don’t be preoccupied with staying sober! Just be available, 24-7!l

To inoculate against a “disease” or inculcate to choose wisely?

Yeah -me too.

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