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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, you can be snide all you want. I'm clean. I'm not tearing apart my family, destroying my kids' childhood, straining social resources because I couldn't pass on the chance to do a substance and get hooked on it.[/quote]

LOL you think *we're* snide. Did you grow up in Jamaica, Queens? Did your dad leave your family because he was addicted to heroin, thus not only saddling you with abandonment issues but a proclivity toward addiction yourself? Did your mom die of cancer when you were 12? Did you lose a 6 month old to SIDS? No? None of this? Even one of these things? Then STFU about how you're so high and mighty because you would never DARE to even try a drug to escape the hell that is your life, or because you didn't know any better, or because you were genetically inclined to do so. [/quote]

I am not the PP but I think you've crossed the line from empathy for addicts to an expansive victim mentality. My father grew up poor, with a violent and often absent alcoholic father. He chose to never drink a drop of alcohol and has been successful. I grew up in a comfortable home but the idea that I could become 'hooked' on something after a single 'hit' was enough to deter me from ever trying drugs. I agree that adddicts have a real struggle once they are hooked. But it's ridiculous to say it was not a choice to take drugs in the first place. Yes, the horribleness of their life experience may have made drugs look attractive -- I get that and am blessed not to have lived that. But it was still a choice in a way that something like depression is not. If it's not a choice at the beginning, how on earth can people who are chemically dependent on a substance choose to get and stay clean?! A hard choice is still a choice.[/quote]

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