What is Addiction? - Ordinary Intoxication: No Permanent Change
Summary
- No permanent change with ordinary intoxication.
- By changing brain activity, intoxication can cause extreme and dangerous behaviour in anyone.
- When the personality is temporarily changed, it causes behaviour change.
- If you become intoxicated, you’re not aware of the way intoxication is changing your grip on reality. We have no control over this process. That’s why intoxication can be dangerous for anyone.
- Non-addicted intoxication can result in extreme and damaging behaviours.
- Alcohol gives us a strong example of this. Because it’s so widely used there is enormous damage done through alcohol intoxication.
- Even so, for most people the personality returns to normal after intoxication because the deeper parts have not been permanently changed.
- But in some people intoxication causes permanent change in the deeper parts. And the person involved doesn’t realise how dangerous this is. To that person, it seems great.