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LookieNoNookie -> RE: Philip Seymour Hoffman dies - age 46 (2/3/2014 2:36:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: FelineRanger
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ORIGINAL: needlesandpins
I'm afraid I really can't feel sorry about it other than for his family. everyone is well aware of what drugs does to you, but to go back to it after 23 years when you have a family of small children is just selfish beyond belief. so yeah, his family have my thoughts, but I don't feel anything for him.
needles
Apparently you've been fortunate enough never to have a friend or family member struggle with addiction. It's not something you just say, "Oh, well, that was stupid" and move on from like teenage vandalism or blowing the car payment on a trip to a strip joint. Drug addiction rewrites neural chemistry so that the addict is never free and must spend the rest of their lives on guard. No one can keep that level of vigilance up without flagging. It becomes even more difficult when you have a hospital system that pushes narcotics. Hoffman and Steven Tyler both went to the hospital for injuries and both had narcotics pushed on them despite being known drug addicts. They also had the option of being able to pay for return trips to rehab out of pocket change. A very dear friend of mine was also a heroin addict for years before getting clean for several years. She was in a car accident and her arm was broken in 3 different places. She told them repeatedly that she was a recovering heroin addict and they gave her a morphine drip while she was in the ER and a prescription for oxycodone. Is it any wonder why she went screaming back into her old habits? It is long past time that we get past the idea that addiction is a simple binary moral failing and understand that it is infinitely more complex, much like the addicts themselves.
FelineRanger....I get what you're saying. I have a very good friend whose brother comes and goes on this aspect....I personally have done my time in that arena (not with heroin, but other substances) and at some point, a choice has to be made.
Those that "can't", I feel for them but, it is a choice.
(Most) weren't born addicted to drugs. At some point someone made a choice....to tempt fate.
No one since the early 1900's was unaware the cigarettes were bad for you....yet, we all turned a blind eye until the feds, bought and paid for by corporations, until citizens demanded the truth, and then came a little warning "cigarettes MAY be hazardous to your health"...and smoking usage rose.
Then, years later, some countries were even bold enough to demand that packs of smokes carried a photo of a smoke infiltrated lung, black as coal, right on the front....larger than the brand logo....and...today (not in North America) worldwide, cigarette smoking is amazingly....up.
No one is insensitive to someone's hook, nor their emotional "need" to be on something that takes them away from their pain or even the damaging elixir that is drugs.
It's still a choice.
To live.
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