Should you feel sorry for an addict? POLL

Do you feel bad for addicts?

  • Yes...it's hard to quit.

  • No...they should not have tried the drug in the first place.


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mitchelt

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I read comments that say they feel sorry for addicts and that it's hard to clean up.

I say the first time they tried drugs they were not addicts and it was there choice to try the drug in the first place, and if they didn't try it they would not have become an addict.

What do you think?
 

surfsatwerk

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An addict is a sick person, but a cancer patient won't blow your brains out while they're mugging you for dope money.
 

highland145

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Pretty sure, during career day, none of them said, "I wanna be a crack whore. Yeah, baby."

Yes, I feel sorry for them but I don't know what the solution is. I've mentioned I'm on a grand jury. ~40% of the cases are drugs, prescription or illegal. Add to that the burglaries, robberies, shootings, shop lifting.....it's 75%+ drug related.
 
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Yep, I'm sure most people don't choose to be an addict, and they wouldn't call it an addiction if it was so easy to break out of it.

Hell, just the other day I read about some people who became morphine addicts after they got it injected once during a hospital stay.

Shit destroys lives.
 

mitchelt

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I hear the comment "people don't choose to be addicts" a lot, but my point is they do choose to try drugs...why did they make that stupid choice in the first place?
 

highland145

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I hear the comment "people don't choose to be addicts" a lot, but my point is they do choose to try drugs...why did they make that stupid choice in the first place?
Peer pressure
Not gonna happen to me
Depression
Just once
Anything to stop the pain
etc



Count your blessings.
 

Kadarin

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Nov 23, 2001
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"Trying drugs" != "addict"

Some drugs are more addictive than others, and some addictions are worse than others.
 

nehalem256

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I hear the comment "people don't choose to be addicts" a lot, but my point is they do choose to try drugs...why did they make that stupid choice in the first place?

Funny that you never hear anyone say "people don't choose to blow their brains how playing Russian roulette."
 

Ns1

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I hear the comment "people don't choose to be addicts" a lot, but my point is they do choose to try drugs...why did they make that stupid choice in the first place?

you can be addicted to things other than drugs

WoW, food, porn, sex, religion, etc. All can be equally damaging.


See: 14 seasons of "Intervention"
 

highland145

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"Trying drugs" != "addict"

Some drugs are more addictive than others, and some addictions are worse than others.
And some have more addictive personalities.

Read somewhere that a lot of soldiers came back from Viet Nam hooked on heroin. 90+% quite on their own because they had to. No access, no enablers, no welfare hammock they could access.
 

jagec

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I hear the comment "people don't choose to be addicts" a lot, but my point is they do choose to try drugs...why did they make that stupid choice in the first place?

Because people usually don't think through the consequences of their actions. We're all guilty of it to some degree, but some of us make worse decisions than others.
 

phucheneh

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Holy fuck some of you are idiots. You actually believe the elementary school 'IF YOU TRY A DRUG, YOU COULD BECOME HOPELESSLY ADDICTED TO IT FOREVER INSTANTLY' line of dumbshit retarded D.A.R.E.-educated thinking.

Yeah, that's not quite how it happens. Also the tooth fairy isn't real and god doesn't give two shits if you touch yourself at night.
 

lxskllr

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I feel neither for addicts. I feel irritated at the government preventing people from living successful lives with their addictions. Cavemen grow opium poppies, and it's only expensive due to the black market. Same thing with coca, and synthetically derived substances, many of which wouldn't exist without the prohibition of more natural substances.
 

KeithTalent

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No; I am not very sympathetic to "addicts" at all. Maybe I should be, but I am not. Not at all.

KT
 
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sixone

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Of course I feel sorry for them. So what?

I'm not going to loan an addict my car, or my ATM card, or drive them to their dealer's house.

There's a difference between sympathy and enabling.
 

highland145

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Until the 2nd season and then you realize Walt's the bad guy.
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