What Does This Quote Mean to You ?

Published April 3, 2014

Question by Bobbi_boo: what does this quote mean to you ?
Reflection Quote: Alan I. Leshner, Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, defines drug addiction as:

“Drug addiction is uncontrollable, compulsive drug seeking and use, even in the face of negative health and social consequences.”

Merriam-Webster defines uncontrollable as being free from control by a superior authority. It also defines a compulsion as an irresistible, persistent impulse or obsession.

What does Alan I. Leshner’s definition of drug addiction mean to you both as a driver responsible for your own actions and as a driver sharing the road with other cars, pedestrians, and cyclists?

Please explain in a full paragraph (five or more sentences).
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Best answer:

Answer by James
The quote means that addicts are out of control. They may or may not know that their actions are self-detrimental, but they cannot help themselves.

I won’t do your homework for you. But I will tells you some things anyway – look at the first word: REFLECT. That means that you need to think about the quote, not ask some random stranger on the internet to do your assignment for you. The assignment is to consider what that means to YOU, not what it means to some random stranger on the internet.

I guess from the context that this is from some sort of standardized drivers ed class. In addition, it has even been asked on YA several times, I am linking the most relevant answer below – which should give you plenty of help in getting started.

For context, I am also linking the article from Dr. Leshner which that quote came from so that you can read up the context from which the quote is taken.

Good luck, and don’t be afraid to do a little work so that you can actually learn something beyond copying. (When you cheat – you cheat yourself out of an education).

Please give Em (in the first link) a thumbs up for their quality answer to this question 3 years ago)

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Teacher’s Anti-Drug Quotes – Red Ribbon Week 2013.