Are addictive drugs the only ones that work?

and is addiction psychiatric, or metabolic?

In one of my earlier pieces I touched on addiction as being a function of the metabolism. This article goes into more detail.

Whenever we take a substance that improves the efficiency of our metabolism, our metabolism sends out the urge to keep reaching for the drug or whatever substance it may be, in order to keep the body running more efficiently.

If the reason for taking the addictive medication goes away, our metabolism stops sending us the urge to take it again and we stop reaching for it. Pretty soon it’s not even in our thoughts.

I have decades of experience taking different medications due to my extensive and decades long health issues.

The disease process in me has got to the point many times in which I was in danger of dying. I always managed to reverse the disease process by removing whatever foreign object that was causing it. Two titanium alloy implants had to be removed, and dental work, both amalgam and composite dental fillings.

Fragments of metal, peppered amongst the nerves in my back were left in me after my 2008 implant explantation, but were not enough to trigger the bad systemic symptoms of titanium allergy which I had developed from exposure.

After that surgery, I still had inappropriate responses to temperature but it was manageable. I did develop new symptoms from that surgery, including claustrophobia and high risk epilepsy(the type you can just drop dead)

The foreign object placed in my chest maliciously by my surgeon Mr Nicholas Finnis in 2008, certainly didn’t help things. When removed by my new surgeon in 2020, the high risk epilepsy I developed after my 2008 surgery disappeared. It was cured.

I have been on a lot of so-called addictive medications in my lifetime. I’ve also been prescribed medications that weren’t called addictive. In my experience, those that aren’t addictive simply don’t work and should be avoided.

For sinus issues and colds, pseudo-ephedrine medications were the only ones that worked for me. When they were banned, it caused huge problems in my life. I have abnormal sinus cavities and if I get sinus issues I get two bumps appear above my eyes. The bone of my forehead is pushed outwards as the pressure in my sinuses is so great that something has to give.

When they banned pseudo-ephedrine, I would have to spend weeks in a dark room in bed in absolute agony. At times it was so bad it set my fight/flight system off.

The medications they replaced pseudo-ephedrine with, were not addictive and did not work at all and my metabolism never sent me the urge to have anymore after I had tried them. With the pseudo-ephedrine based medications, once the sinus problem was dealt with, I just stopped reaching for the pills, even though they are addictive, with no withdrawal symptoms or problems. My metabolism no longer required them as the problem was now solved.

Withdrawal symptoms occur if the metabolisms urges and underlying health issues are ignored and the doctor takes the medicine away from the patient when their metabolism still requires it.

Then we have Nicotine as an addictive substance and I’ve noticed that smoking runs in families, not because of peer pressure but because those families have a gene mutation which is mitigated by nicotine. The metabolism, seeing that the nicotine has solved a metabolic problem, sends out the urge to reach for another cigarette.

We are now seeing nicotine supplements on the shelves at health shops.

What first got me on to observing these type of phenomenon, were amalgam fillings and how many people with amalgam fillings were addicted to alcohol. Once their fillings were removed, they no longer had the urge to reach for alcohol. It happened to me too.

The common thinking is that the alcohol is keeping the methylation process busy so it doesn’t have the time to change ethyl mercury from amalgam fillings into the more dangerous methyl mercury. With the mercury removed, the metabolism no longer requires alcohol to mitigate the mercury methylation issue.

Public health however, regard addiction as a human fault, and their focus is to try and rip the addictive substance away from the patient while ignoring the underlying health problem that is causing the metabolisms need for the substance in the first place.

After my 2008 surgery, I still had inappropriate responses to temperatures because of the foreign object in my chest. I could manage it in New Zealand, as it just meant I had to wear thermal underwear all year.

If I went on holiday to a hot country, as heat exacerbates allergies, I had to take CNS (central nervous system) suppressants with me because the symptoms would be severe.

Benzodiazepines are CNS suppressants and considered very addictive. But even though I was taking large doses for weeks, I was able to stop them immediately once back in the cold of New Zealand without experiencing any withdrawal symptoms.

My metabolism no longer needed them back in New Zealand. It stopped sending me the urge to reach for more.

Whenever any patient is showing the signs of addiction, the question the doctor needs to ask themselves is,

‘what underlying metabolic problem is causing the bodies need for this substance.’ What is the addictive substance fixing in other words.

Find the answer to this question, and you have a solution to target - fix the underlying problem, and the patient will no longer be addicted as their metabolism no longer requires the substances to function efficiently.

I propose that the term ‘addictive,’ with regards to describing patients, is wiped from the medical textbooks, and replaced with the term ‘forced self-medication’.

This would at least recognise the metabolism as being an unstoppable force, allude to an underlying medical problem for the doctor to target, and it wouldn’t create a culture of blaming the patient as they have no choice.

Their metabolism is forcing them. Leaving them on that medication may be the only choice but at least their metabolism can function better and they can have a better quality of life with less suffering.

Symptoms of addiction are the role of the metabolism to keep us on our feet and able to work and buy food and look after ourselves.

They are not a willpower issue as psychiatrists would like you to think. The patient has a metabolic problem which the metabolism is trying to fix and it will take over control of our actions if we ignore it.

The current way public health deals with addiction causes a lot of social harm and can outcast a patient from their families and society, increasing crime.

This social harm is totally unnecessary and a complete fabrication of public health. It would not occur if we had a health system that put the patient before industry, if doctors were allowed to investigate and diagnose cause, and if environmental factors and gene mutations were considered first and foremost.

There is never any need to blame any patient for their bad health but unfortunately, public health is designed to blame everything on the patient to protect industry.

I’ve written more about this blame game in my first article at this link, if you’re interested

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