My apologies: I wrote that post in a fit of anger and I wasn't careful in how I spoke. You're absolutely right that the choice she was presented with was no ch

My apologies: I wrote that post in a fit of anger and I wasn't careful in how I spoke. You're absolutely right that the choice she was presented with was no choice at all. She prefered alcohol over housing in the same way that Stephen Hawking prefers sitting over walking. That was the point that I was trying to make - there are people who cannot make rational decisions on these matters. As for the drug war, my wife has tens of thousands of dollars of medical debt because some bureaucrat decided that it's more important that my mother-in-law be punished for being an alcoholic than that a child might have a warm place to sleep at night. Punishing addicts makes as much sense as punishing cancer patients.