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You don't do drugs, I don't even think you drink. You have NO idea what it's like to be Sophia.



Like CXXX, I don't do drugs. I rarely drink - and, when I do its almost always under social pressure - I don't enjoy it.

So, yes, I have no idea what its like to be Sophia or any drug addict.

But, I won't let ANYONE off the hook with "its a disease" when the drugs in question are ILLEGAL. Alcohol gets a "pass" with me since our society all but FORCES people to drink, lauds more than a bit of bawdy drunkenness and thus people susceptible to alcoholism are coerced into partaking in this drug.

But, the drugs that have impacted Sophia, Cytherea, et. al., are outright BANNED. There are reasons society doesn't allow that path - in part to save people so pre-wired from succumbing to said "diseases". Sophia and her ilk CHOSE to disregard that and thus CHOSE their fate/condition.

I feel badly for their state of mind that led to the choice, I mourn the waste they've made of their potential and lives, but THEY MADE THE CHOICE TO BE ADDICTS.

A person with epilepsy doesn't choose to have a seizure. A person with schizophrenia doesn't choose to hear voices. A person with Alzheimer's doesn't choose to not to recognize his/her closest family members.

I'm bi-polar. I can't choose to control my mood swing on my own. It takes prescription drugs to control them. Sometimes they stop working, my mood swings resume and I end up back in the hospital. That is very sad, and not my fault. But, if I choose not to take them, then I AM responsible for my mood swings. I would have made the choice to be sick. And, then it isn't sad. It's pathetic and wrong.

If a person is struggling with life, for whatever reason, there are many choices s/he has. If s/he elects to address this problem with ILLEGAL drugs, it is an unwise, unfortunate decision. But, it was his/her CHOICE not an outcome of an ILLNESS.


You want to tell me that there is a mental illness underneath the addiction to meth/coke/heroin, and I'll buy that. I'll sympathize with it. I'll help with that. I listen to this in group therapy everyday, and I'm very supportive.

But, I cannot sympathize with the addiction itself.

WE KNEW that Sophia would get addicted if she did that shit. SHE KNEW that she would get addicted if she did that shit. It is the reason the substances are BANNED. Children are taught this everyday. And, still, with all the resources we expend to education and enforcement, idiots choose to do illicit addictive drugs and augment the damage to our society.

I see it more as Treason than Disease.

I cannot find empathy for a person who injects themselves with anthrax OR heroin and tells me that now they have somehow come down with a disease.





Sorry.

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