Because at the end of the day, they did that to themselves. They have no one else to blame for their troubles. It's a choice.
shareThis is probably not the infro thread you want jump in with. I would suggest , Hey I'm Jason I do blank for a living and I want to be a part of this community.
shareLike a lot of people have already said, drug users will often have a harsh background story about how they ended up where they are now. Or they will just try out some drugs with "friends", only to become addicted. And as soon as you have become stuck with it, it is very hard to get out of it. It is indeed nothing less than a disease by that point.
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sharewow this guy decided to enter our forum with drug overdose and I make 180000 dollars. These were his first starts. Not someone I want to talk with.
shareWouldn't the circumstances of the overdose effect how you sympathise with the person. Since some people who overdose have had their drinks spiked with the drug against their will, would you not have sympathy for that person if they overdosed? the people who take drugs on purpose mainly do it for the same reason why people read a book or watch a movie, to escape from their reality for a few hours. I personally used to be addicted to a number of different drugs (for which it was my choice to take them since addiction isn't a disease). Also it's rather ignorant to assume that all drug addicts are to blame for their own troubles, since a lot of them turn to drugs and alcohol because they have a had bad things happen to them before they became addicted. I have known people who have turned to drugs because they have had a miscarriage from being in a violent relationship or have been addicted to pain killers after being in a car wreck which wasn't their fault.
shareI personally used to be addicted to a number of different drugs (for which it was my choice to take them since addiction isn't a disease)
try telling that to a cancer patient who has had to have a part of their body amputated to save their life, diseases aren't something you can will away like addiction is, smoking is addictive and loads of people quite smoking everyday on their own. you can't just chose to no longer have cancer without going through different treatments, whereas you can chose to quite smoking, drinking or taking drugs.
shareSeriously? There's no way to just will away an addiction! Yeah, some people are able to get out of it. But as you might know, some people who get cancer are cured as well. But that doesn't mean that everybody can make it, or that it can't come back. And that is true for different addictions as well. Even if you can get better, the risk of having a relapse will haunt you for the rest of your life.
shareIt sounds like you're someone who doesn't like to take responsibility for your action, so just blames everything on having a disease. People who have cancer are cured with medication and different forms of treatment, people who claim to have addiction recover from talking about it (without having to take medication).
shareAnother poster in this thread explained that when you have an addiction, it is like your brain doesn't work in the same way anymore. So then, it is not possible for you to be so responsible.
There are medical treatments for addictions too, but a lot of people don't care to seek them out, maybe because if they would quit the drug, they would soon lose all their friends and be alone.
I've always been an honest, hard-working person, but at my advanced age, I realize I didn't always make the right choices as far as finding a calling and a talent and a good career. I have a home with a mortgage and a small IRA, so I'm not destitute but making ends meet and needing to have roommates has been extremely disappointing. I'm of an age where many employers don't want me, I don't want their smock wearing minimum wage job, and I feel desperate. Not a drug addict but didn't make the best choices. Do I deserve sympathy?
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It is. If they are somebody who acted like a complete piece of trash on the way down it makes it that much harder to feel bad for them. If they were somebody who clearly was fighting it and trying to live a good life, that makes you feel for them.
shareYou've never had someone you love who was addicted?
It can happen very innocently, these days, the way doctors throw narcotics prescriptions at people. Opiate addiction can happen fairly quickly.
Once someone is addicted, good luck getting medical help in getting off of them.
Dude...I'm all for personal responsibility, but hardcore drugs 'hijack your brain' the issue of will power is moot.
Your brain chemistry PHYSICALLY changes with drug use. Think of your brain as a computer that has been hacked with a virus to crash, the computer can't help it, it does what the virus tells it to do. You don't throw away the computer, you try to purge the virus.
A great movie to see is 'Drugstore Cowboy' starring Matt Dillion.