Iskandar Baharuddin
Not only that, but Gregory is simply wrong in the way he is applying the term.
This all started because he claims that the Aborigines are not drunks, but simply self-medicating.
Plenty of top psychiatrists are quacks who dont have a clue. There is no fundamental book of the brain that suits every single human being.
Indeed. I knew of a person who used injection to self medicate due to depression. He was of the belief that it was a far better alternative to the drugs prescribed to him - and Id tend to agree.
But I refuse to use his use of injection as evidence that every junkie out there is self-medicating. A lot of them just want to get off their face, and not because they need to do so other than the addiction itself.
For a majority of people, addiction is the result of plain and simple abuse of a substance, and not to remedy an underlying problem, as Gregory would have us believe.
Are you saying that every single person who takes a drink of alcohol is trying to ease some form of pain ?
Poppychicken.
Taking any substance purely because you want it, is not self-medication.
