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I have met quite a few addicts and I would describe very few of them as immoral, violent, or emotional cripples. I would strongly recommend not saying these thi

• waps 13y ago
  The comment did mention that a majority of people can take heroin and lead stable lives while enjoying that drug. It is, however, not reasonable or moral to simply ignore what happens to the ones who can't and are destroyed by it. I have met plenty of drug addicts, from all 3 cases. Those who can simply live with and without the drug, those who can as long as the supply is stable (this group, not the first, is the majority) and those who get destroyed by it in a matter of weeks no matter what.
  • duaneb 13y ago
    Well said. I would never encourage the use of addictive drugs and didn't intend to come across as such—of course it also ruins many lives, a fact that I find so obvious it seems absurd to me to refute. All I mean to say is that drugs and addiction are complicated and can virtually every effect imaginable on people, including very positive ones (though for "hard", physically wasting drugs I struggle with this idea).