A drug addict with a perfect physique

not those that have fallen down the ladder all the way to hard drugs.

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Life's too short for mediocrity.

This.

The term "functioning addict" refers to these kinds of people who live like Mike Weiss in the film, people who are undoubtedly addicted to drugs but still manage to keep up appearances or maintain some kind of normalcy in their lives (good relationships with families and friends, hold down a steady job or a career etc.)

However, it's nearly impossible for anybody to stay "functional" like this forever. Only the most deceptive (particularly at deceiving themselves), and the most heavily enabled, can keep the facade going for years or even decades, but living that way is exhausting and eventually the drug will pervade every corner of your life.

There just isn't room for addiction to coexist peacefully within a conventional, productive lifestyle, be it drugs or something else. For some people it's a slow and gradual rot that creeps into their lives, and for others it is a sudden and dramatic downward spiral of destruction. But the common denominator for everyone is that addiction itself is an all-consuming force, and no addict can escape that. I speak from personal experience.

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Of course, they're never going to depict high functioning non-self-destructive drug addicts on TV but there are people who can *only* function at a high capacity with the opiates they need and, in some countries, at some points in history, they have been able to get them through government health care programs for free, believe it or not. And under such circumstances, they can live long and productive opiate-enriched lives, propaganda be damned.


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But the heroin (and cocaine) addict can beat a drug test in 2-3 days, a marijuana addict (if this exists-lets say smoker instead) will test + for sometimes 30 days due to it being fat soluble instead of water.
Looked to me he was doing coke and heroin (or at least the pills he popped were hydrocodone which is a weaker chemical equivalent of herion). They showed him smoking meth too if I remember correctly.

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Killing people is easy...if you can forget the taste of sugar.

Right. Well, I have to-- I have to go now, Duane, because I, I'm due back on the planet Earth.

You're right hcole, Mile Weiss was an extremely high functioning and physically fit drug addict. He was a brilliant young man with a bright future who was able to fool those closest to him including his family, his wife and his law partner, who was a close friend since childhood.
High functioning drug addicts are much more common than you would imagine. Mike's intellect and passion enabled him to hide his addiction from his loved ones until it was too late. His loss was a tragedy.

Just like many Hollywood stars.

I am glad I am not the only one who thought this.