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Originally Posted by Rachael x  Addiction is a cruel, cruel thing to happen to anyone. We can be addicted to so many things, drugs, alcohol, prescription drugs, food. All adictions are hard to understand and hard to over come.
I have an uncle who is an alcoholic, no way did he choose to be an alcoholic and he has tried to get help many times but so far has failed. He used to drink like any normal person, a few pints of beer on a night out and that is that. Then his son was run over and killed at the age of 11, and his girlfriend's house was set on fire.. he tried to save her but he couldn't get her out and she died. He started to drink more often to block out the pain and before he even knew it he was addicted.
I agree that drug addiction is hard to understand, I have never touched drugs in my life and don't understand what would go through a person's mind when they first try the drug, but I bet not one of those drug addicts WANTED to become an addict. We all make mistakes, just some are harder to fix.
I love the peice Russel Brand wrote for Amy, I think it hits the nail on the head.
I will copy and paste it for anyone who hasn't read it: . . . |
Wow, what a powerful story, thanks for posting it. One thing I so agree with is "We need to look at the way our government funds rehabilitation. It is cheaper to rehabilitate an addict than to send them to prison, so criminalisation doesn’t even make economic sense".