This is beautifully written. "As drugs have swirled into this kaleidoscope of lifestyle and consumer choices, the identity of the ‘drug user’ has slipped out o

This is beautifully written. "As drugs have swirled into this kaleidoscope of lifestyle and consumer choices, the identity of the ‘drug user’ has slipped out of view." This perfectly sums up the situation in my opinion. Many people still, regrettably, automatically associate drugs with the "classical junkie", while forgetting that they themselves are drug users, of a kind or another. Not mentioned in this piece, but I believe there exist escaping habits incredibly akin to drugs, with effects at least as damaging, or I suppose, as good too. One only needs to look at chronic social networkers, obsessed reality TV show watchers or compulsive buyers, to only name a few. Any attempt at suppressing these behaviors therefore seems utterly pointless, push on one end and it'll come out of the other. One might think that helping people realize self-worth and be critical, through (actual) education, would be the answer, but one may dream...