Some of the best and hardest workers I've ever worked with had alcohol and drug problems. It comes down to the individual. These people have problems, and both

Some of the best and hardest workers I've ever worked with had alcohol and drug problems. It comes down to the individual. These people have problems, and both are pushed by large corporate interests(alcohol culture/companies, pharmaceutical companies/doctors). Should companies take risks on them? Not all of them, no. But they shouldn't simply be passed off as 'drunks' or 'oxy-heads'. There's lots of very smart, honest hard working people out there that suffer from these problems.