“Why didn’t Fonzie and Ron help her when it mattered?”
Who says they didn’t? Have you ever tried to intervene on an addict? Not an easy task. You cannot help someone who does not want to help themselves. Short of the criminal justice system intervening and imposing treatment from within an incarceration facility, you cannot clean up an addict who does not want to get clean.
I should know. My own brother committed suicide when it was obvious he was going to get locked up for his addiction and attached criminal behaviors. He would rather be dead than kick his habit. He got his wish.
I don’t know. Whether you intervene with the addiction or with her unemployment which probably pushed her to the addiction. Give the girl a part so she can live in the present and stopped rehashing the glory of the past. But no, everybody in America just leaves everybody else to deal with it on their own....