re: Honest obituary of 20 year old dying from heroin

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While addiction is certainly a disease for which one can be predisposed, modern America loves to downplay the personal responsibility of the individual. Addicts are painted as powerless victims, which they are not.

2017 America is the Land of the Victim and Home of the Entitled. Nobody is at fault for anything. We are all just victims of our situations and our chromosomes. There is no good, and there is no evil. There is no choice. Now give me your stuff, you privileged POS.

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loves to downplay the personal responsibility of the individual. Addicts are painted as powerless victims, which they are not.

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This isn't true. Addicts aren't victims. They are very sick though

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's not a disease, but it's sad none the less.

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Watch an addict going through withdrawals. It's both sad and an illness.

It's not sad though

the truth of the matter is that people who aren't addicts or don't deal with drugs tend to paint things too black and white and have a need to have to lump it in a category because they don't understand it. at the same time people who are addicts or who have experience with addiction, tend to over state the power of the drug and understate their personal responsibility. which is why these debates get so heated.

every persons story is unique to them. i didn't start using for the same reason the woman in this thread who died started using and she didn't start using because of the same reason that girls i know started using. i dont' know why she relapsed. but i'm sure it wasn't for the same reason i did when i did.


While I did get kinda suckered into using, it was still my decision to do so, i was a grown 22 year old man. I had a car, a job, an apartment, I payed taxes. I was old enough to know right from wrong and I knew it was wrong and did not care because I wanted to get laid. I can take personal responsibility for that today. But I can also take personal responsibility on rather or not I use today or tomorrow or the next day. Everyday I wake up and I chose to not release. When you make good decisions in your life good things happen, when you make bad decisions bad things happen.

I still play around with ice from time to time and you know what, while i'm not worried about getting addicted i know that what i'm doing is illegal. if i get caught that's not the cops fault or anyone else's fault it's mine cause i chose to. i just don't care because 1. i'm not an idiot and don't plan on getting caught / i don't do shite that puts me out there like that and 2. i dont' think it should be illegal anyway morally. that's a decision i'm willing to live with if that day every comes from my own personal beliefs. But it's my decision.


if you have never seen the west wing, watch the scene where leo explains to the woman about him being an alcoholic. it's the best explanation on addiction i've ever seen.

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tend to paint things too black and white and have a need to have to lump it in a category because they don't understand it.

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or maybe we are just enough of a sociopath to actually see that it's a good thing when addicts don't dilute the gene pool with their weak genetics.

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or maybe we are just enough of a sociopath to actually see that it's a good thing when addicts don't dilute the gene pool with their weak genetics.

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A girl i used to hang out with started doing herion when she was 13 years old because her mom sold her for drug money. she used to do drugs to get through the experience and hasn't stopped. i have a hard time calling her anything but a victim. No she doesn't have a disease but the girl never had a real choice in the matter. There is a story in the NA big book about a female prostitute whose dad used to molest her and she ran away to san francisco and she used to turn tricks just to have a place to stay and got caught up in addiction.


you dont' know anything about drug addiction, stop trolling and acting like you do it's a serious subject. .