The Road Out Blog

All drugs of abuse, but especially the more addictive drugs set up in the mind of the addict an entirely new set of priorities, desires and very selective attention spans. While a normal person is alert to responsibilities and required activities, even as basic and eating and sleeping, the addict is following another set of commands

The drug addict is running on automatic, in a very real way. What you say and what they hear is not the same. Normal communications are filtered through the altered perceptions of the drug haze and come out differently, sometimes completely different.