Originally Posted by
Sara X
I just wanted to get everyone's thoughts on this...
I've never done heroin, nor have I done cocaine, or any of the other multitude of drugs that I am around on a daily (well, nightly) basis in my line of work. I have seen the people who choose to do them, I've seen the before/after, I've seen people disappear or die as a direct result of their habit.
Now, knowing that I can be around these types of drugs all the time without doing them, I feel no sympathy for people who start. I don't believe that anyone "doesn't have a choice", short of being held down and forcefully dosed every time. As difficult as it may be, anyone who truly wants to quit can quit... there are resources available. I don't think there are many people who can honestly say they didn't know that the drug they were trying was going to be so addictive- perhaps nothing can prepare you for the feeling, but just about everyone is taught as early as grade school that doing drugs is bad.
I would go as far as to say (and I have, and have been attacked for it) that anyone who willingly does/continues to do a highly-addictive & harmful substance, especially if they discuss it in an offhand manner or in an online journal, deserves to die... when they began, by not quitting, by being openly proud of it, they are signing their own death warrant. I don't feel sympathy for them, no matter how well I know them or how close we may have been before they started doing drugs. Even addicts have a choice- EVERYONE has a choice.
What do you guys think?
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