Why Won't a Drug Addict Listen? speculate 3

Reason 3: They Are Still Stoned

When stoned, a drug abuser is unable to keep completely up with or to stay totally focused on the gift environment, or the current conversation. There are some reasons for this which we will cover, but you can see it happening. If you do not watch for it, you might miss it and just leave the conversation kind of scratching you head or a bit confused.

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Have you ever spoken to someone and gotten the impression that they are seeing right straight through you and cannot hear a particular word you are saying? Or have you found yourself shaking your head when you had just closed production an foremost point in a conference and the someone you were speaking to responded with a annotation or demand that was completely off topic and non sequitur?

You were talking to someone who was not tracking with the rest of the world. The most likely conjecture is they were on drugs.

Drugs enter the body and are eliminated at varying rates. Some can be out of the system rapidly, and other drugs will take weeks to come to be completely inactive.

The liver breaks down many of the drugs and other toxins we ingest. For example, alcohol, (ethanol, actually) is changed pretty rapidly, within 24 hours, most of the ethanol from a "binge" has been converted to other chemicals and ultimately into sugars that can be metabolized and dumped. It is a well known waste of time to try to talk sense to someone who is drunk. But if you wait until their blood is free of the drug, you have a much good likelihood of reaching them.

Thc, the active drug in marijuana is much slower to leave the body. Not broken down by the liver, Thc can stay in the bloodstream for weeks. For that reason, talking to someone who was smoking marijuana last night is also pretty much a waste of your time. Agreements made will be forgotten and even realizations they had will be gone before too long. They were not as a matter of fact "there" to begin with.

This is a huge wall to helping a drug addict see the light and seek help.

There are, of course, population who simply have mystery focusing, with or without drugs. Although it is unfortunate, they are pretty easy to recognize. But, if a someone you know to be regularly sharp or "with it" starts to exhibit these tendencies, it can absolutely be due to drug use.

The solution?

Refuse to discuss the all foremost topic of handling drug addiction or going to detox or rehab with a stoned drug abuser. Try to reach them before they have taken the first hit of the day. While they will be far from clean, it will be the good than talking to them when they are as a matter of fact high.

Next in this series:

Five Reasons Why a Drug Addict Won't Listen

Reason 4: Pro-Drug Propaganda

Why Won't a Drug Addict Listen? speculate 3