Opiate epidemic and addiction

Reading the first few responses of the other thread was painful. A lot of people here are so ignorant to the disease of addiction. Big Pharma defenitly plays a huge part in this and the overprescribing of opiates. It started with liquid pain pills after a surgery for me, then moved to roxies, and eventually heroin for years. Once I put any substance in my body, the phenomenon of craving starts to kick in and it’s not a will power thing anymore. I can’t say no because that’s all I think about or “crave.” Nothing else did the trick. And most to all people in recovery have this same experience. I started drinking at 14 and was a blackout drinker from jump. I never understood how someone could leave a drink half finished. Now, it was my choice to take that first drink or drug but after drank, snort, or shot it, I lost the power of choice.