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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have tons of sympathy for victims of the opioid crisis. But, enabling is not helping. Close your wallet and avoid these situations. [/quote]
OP here - the majority of opioid addicts got the drugs from friends and relatives, not doctors. I am not even sure why they deserve sympathy for self-induced addictions. Reality is hard to deal with and some people choose the easy way out. [/quote]

Yes, you are very correct OP: opioid addicts by and large get their drugs from friends and relatives. AND there are definite precursors to this that set folks up for addiction. From Scientific American:
“If we want to reduce opioid addiction, we have to target the real risk factors for it: child trauma, mental illness and unemployment. Two thirds of people with opioid addictions have had at least one severely traumatic childhood experience, and the greater your exposure to different types of trauma, the higher the risk becomes. We need to help abused, neglected and otherwise traumatized children before they turn to drugs for self-medicatation when they hit their teens.”

I would invite you to try to set aside some of your anger and judgment. No one wakes up and decides to be an addict. Your husband and his sister grew up in the same household, but each of them had their own experience. I would bet my paycheck that there was trauma of some kind. Each of us can react to trauma in our own, different way. 
By no means am I saying that you should be supporting her financially. What I’m saying is that this is more complex than a lapse in character. 
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/opioid-addiction-is-a-huge-problem-but-pain-prescriptions-are-not-the-cause/

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Oh get over yourself.  I'm sure some addicts had traumatic backgrounds but so many are overly-coddled, hedonistic over-grown children.  Stop romanticizing these losers.[/quote]

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