The concept of “cure” encompasses a variety of meanings, often interrelated, within medical, spiritual, and broader contextual frameworks:
1. **Spiritual Charge**: Within spiritual or holistic contexts, a cure often refers to the restoration of balance and well-being through intangible means, such as prayer, meditation, or energy healing. It suggests that wellness is not just physical but also connected to the emotional, mental, and spiritual state of an individual.
2. **Recovery or Relief from a Disease**: Medically, a cure is associated with the end of a medical condition. It represents a scenario where the disease is eliminated, and the patient returns to a state of health. Relief can also refer to the alleviation of symptoms, even if the underlying disease remains.
3. **Course or Period of Treatment**: The treatment process aimed at curing or managing a condition. It involves following a prescribed set of medications or therapies over time to fight a disease or alleviate its symptoms.
4. **Complete or Permanent Solution or Remedy**: In this sense, a cure is the end-goal — the complete eradication of a disease or condition such that it no longer affects the individual, potentially including measures to prevent its recurrence.
5. **To Restore Health, Soundness, or Normality**: This refers to the broad actions taken to bring an individual back to their normal state of health after an ailment, disturbance, or injury. It encapsulates recovery as a holistic return to ‘normalcy’ in function and wellbeing.
6. **To Bring About Recovery From**: Here, the focus is on the process that leads to recovery, including treatment strategies and healing practices that guide an individual back to health.
7. **To Deal with in a Way that Eliminates or Rectifies**: It can mean tackling a problem or condition effectively so as to remove its negative impact. This applies to medical conditions, but the concept can also be extended metaphorically to social or psychological issues.
8. **To Free From Something Objectionable or Harmful**: To cure in this sense means to remove a negative or harmful element from someone’s life or environment, which could be a toxic substance, a dangerous situation, or an unhealthy relationship.
9. **To Prepare or Alter, Especially by Chemical or Physical Processing, for Keeping or Use**: In non-medical contexts, such as in the preparation of food, ‘cure’ means to preserve or prepare through processes like smoking, salting, or drying.
Each of these definitions emphasizes different aspects of the concept of a cure, ranging from the tangible medical perspective to the more abstract spiritual or philosophical interpretations. The idea of a cure can be situationally specific—what it means to cure a physical ailment is often very different from ‘curing’ a societal ill. However, across these different contexts, the central theme remains: a movement from a state of dis-ease or problem towards recovery, health, and well-being.
The disease of addiction has two components: It is a physical allergy and mental obsession.
Warrior Recovery is a daily program of action when implemented offers a solution to the disease of active addiction.
The ‘cure’ for the physical allergy is abstinence from all mood and mind altering substances and take medications only as prescribed.
The ‘cure’ for the mental obsession is a process that takes daily discipline and routines such as connection with a higher power, fitness, meditation, attending group meetings, working with a sponsor, and service to others.
The disease of addiction is progressive and fatal. Working a simple, daily, program of action offers a 24 hour reprieve from this fatal illness.
