Drug Addicts: Drug Addiction Facts

Question: Do you feel sorry for drug addicts?

(Posted by: sydney on 2010-03-31 12:43:41)

Im not talking about children born with addictions because of their parents i mean the ones that their familys have spent thousands of dollars to send them to rehab and when they get out they start doing the same stuff! Wasnt it their choice to do drugs to begin with? Not everyone has a great childhood or life but it doesnt mean they go and get strung out what do u think? "Addiction is diseases that no one chooses? " i have to disagree its all about being smart and not taking things that will harm you! and i have addiction all throughout my family but im not addicted to anything its all about the choices we make

Posted by: Chelsea on 2010-03-31, 12:44:59

I do not feel sorry for drug addicts because they made bad choices and they should deal with them independently...

Posted by: dhc on 2010-03-31, 12:46:16

They chose to drugs, why feel sorry for someone who put it on themselves? so to answer, no.

Posted by: ~*Country Girl*~ on 2010-03-31, 12:46:52

To a certain extent.. there is only so much you can feel sorry for someone, before you realize everyone has problems in there life, its how you deal with them that makes you who you are. I don't judge but I also don't waste my life feeling sorry for others.

Posted by: Jenna C on 2010-03-31, 12:48:37

No. speaking from some drug experience, it is a choice no matter how many ways you flip it. it may be harder for those with addictive personalities to turn away from drugs, but it can be done. i have zero sympathy

Posted by: maxmom on 2010-03-31, 12:48:49

I feel sorry for everyone involved. Addiction- alcohol, drugs, sex, ruins lives and families and can even kill people. It's easy to say it's their choice, but I am telling you, it is insidious. It takes over their brains. I lost a relative to drugs. He would go to rehab and be so proud to be clean, but then would relapse. He finally committed suicide. Most drug addiction start when the people are teens. They think they are just partying with their friends, but before you know it, they are addicts.

Posted by: lavaquerabesa on 2010-03-31, 12:49:47

I feel sorry for them in the sense that they became a drug addict in the first place and that they feel like they have nothing else to comfort them besides their habit. That's what is sad to me. But no, I don't feel sorry for people who have friends and family bend over backwards to help them when they refuse to help themselves.

Posted by: Friendly Stranger.. on 2010-03-31, 12:57:25

Only in the sense that what they are doing is clearly destroying them. However, I do not excuse their behavior and I don't feel sorry for them if they blatantly keep using drugs despite understanding the consequences and damages that they are causing on themselves. I think you have a part of it right, it is their choice and if they choose not to stop or get help then what happens is because of their own actions. Even though addiction especially to drugs is a hard thing to overcome, it doesn't mean there isn't help out in the world (rehab, therapy) to help those in need. It is the responsibility of those who need help to get it. Do I pity those who are addicted? I only pity them because they continue to destroy their lives by choices, but not because they simply abuse drugs.

Posted by: midnightmoon on 2010-03-31, 13:14:08

I do to a point. Addiction is a disease, a disease that no one chooses. It is easy to say it is, as a person who has never dealt with an addiction, but its not. Sure, maybe they did make a choice to use the drug in the first place, but how many people really understand the power of addiction until after they are already addicted? And beyond that, with the amount of people who want to pretend drug addiction doesnt start in our schools or other places with young children or teens, its not surprising that many people try drugs thinking they wont get addicted. I mean, lets face it, drug education is something that is shoved under the rug. Yeah, sure, we have DARE programs and officers coming to schools talking about how bad and evil drugs are, but does their approach really work? What about addressing the source of the drugs? When I was in high school, you could get any rx narcotic you wanted... people were passing drugs around like it was candy. But its only been in the last year or so that people are actually talking about it - and it is still a subject thrown under the rug in the town I grew up in. I think the only real way to fight drug addiction, is to get to the level of the people we are talking to, and finding an educational program that actually works, and is not afraid to talk about the details.