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iQuestions Faculty, Dr. David Eckman 
 
 
Question: 
 
How is alcoholism and drug addiction different? 
 
Answer: 
 
Alcoholism and drug addiction are very similar. One may be injected, 
the other may be ingested, but either way, they work through the 
same chemical process and they end up with the same result. 
 
That being the case, the strategy to dealing with them is the same: 
opening up our lives to relationships, opening up our lives to deal with 
the pain that may be there, addressing the lies and the fantasy world 
that comes with both addictive behaviors, and then restructuring the 
life. 
 
How do you restructure the life? Get yourself into relationships, get 
yourself into an accountability group, a recovery group, AA, some 
chemical dependency group— but get yourself into such a situation that 
your life begins to get restructured.  
 
But it is the restructuring of the heart that’s the critical issue. 
Remember, unaddressed pain has to be addressed. Relationships have 
to be embraced, and the lies that come with alcoholism and drug 
addiction need to be effaced from the heart.   
 
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