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For something like heroin or meth I'd like to know what "very small" means, and how they count "users" and "addicts". If a "user" is someone who admits to taking any at all in a calendar year and an addict is someone who admits to more than twice a week, then a big discrepancy is believable, otherwise I'd want to look closely at methodology and definitions.




I see someone called the fire department.

You could go ahead and ask these asinine questions to thin the argument out into abstraction, or you could go and read the reports yourself.

In the meantime, duck and jive around this statement:

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I haven't met one person, known one person well enough who does recreational drugs and is NOT addicted.



Hey, maybe the secret to defending that statement isn't defining the words "drug" and "addicted" but "who"? Maybe Padova lives in a drug rehabilitation center, which explains why she's never known one person who uses drugs who was NOT addicted (emphasis Padover).

I'm a man of the robe. When I see statements like that made in apparent sincerity it's a professional reflex to tear the speaker apart.
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