People can say, she did it to herself and shouldn’t have been taking drugs to begin with, to me, just a base level of humanity makes you feel sorry for someone going thru such a horrible experience, perhaps she can’t be saved, you have to try to help that person if at all possible.
That’s how I feel.
You couldn’t make me take some of these hard narcotics if you put a gun to my head because I know better. Some of them are almost instantly addicting. Heroin and meth are probably top of the list, and the opioids are getting ridiculously strong.
But there are quite a few people who got hooked who didn’t know better, and were influenced by addicts who were around them, or pushers who deceived them. You could say it’s their fault for letting hit happen, but sometimes it’s more complicated than it seems, and now these synthetic drugs are shortening their life expectancy rather drastically. It’s hard not to feel for them.
This brings tears to my eyes. I subjected myself to the drug culture growing up, and whenever I would look back, I would regardthat version of me as existing somewhat beneath the level of “full humanity”—but nothing like this. Nothing like this.
Thank you, Lord, for pulling me up out of the miry pit, for saving my soul.
And who knows what she went through in the past that led her to think drugs would be an answer to her problems?
People do addictive behavior to numb pain in their lives. I’ve rarely seen someone emotionally healthy turn to drugs or alcohol.