I saw a program about a month back on NAT GEO channel. I forget the name of it, but it was something along the lines of Addicted, that may have been the name of it.
They followed around a series of various addicts to different drugs as they partnered with an addiction psychiatrist who was trying to help them and convince them to enter his rehab.
They had all the usual suspects...coke, pot, heroin, meth, pills, crack....pretty much everything under the sun.
But what was interesting was that the person who was by far the most messed up was the hardcore alcoholic.
This young man, who was 27, had an addiction to alcohol unlike anything I’d ever seen. He had a number of people around him, loved ones, who really cared for him and wanted to help him, ex girlfriend, mom, brother and such.
But his addiction was so powerful that if he did not wake up and drink hard liquor every day, he would go into life threatening withdrawal symptoms.
Basically, at the end of the show, the doctor had indeed convinced this young man to enter his rehab.
The young man died 17 days later in rehab at the age of 27 from organ failure due to extended alcohol abuse.
Of all the addicts featured on the show, he was the only one who died.
The product remains legal.
Even if the product was not legal, this young man would still have had his demon to contend with.
Addiction is without a doubt a medical problem and a spiritual problem. Law is not relevant in this matter.
Rehab kills. Just ask Amy Winehouse. No, wait...
Law can legitimately govern what people do. It can prohibit public intoxication. Maybe it could even prohibit private intoxication. The spiritual error is in demonizing a substance because the wickedness is always in its use. It never hops off the shelf and grabs anyone by the collar.
that guy was probably an alcoholic for years. organ failure at that level takes years to develop. one overdose of a hardcore drug and you can die. ask heath ledger. it’s far easier to happen to b/c nobody knows exactly what potency crap they are snorting or injecting. or what’s been added to it.