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To: ellery
It seems likely that he got hooked accidentally,

Yours is very modern interpretation: find a victim and feel sorry for him or her.

Sorry: a responsible, mature person does not get hooked accidentally; and, secondly, even if that happened, such a person does not contuinually and habitually break the law and buy illegal drugs but seeks how to get "unhooked."

He is not a victim: he faces the consequences of his own choices and his own decisions.

88 posted on 10/17/2003 2:52:18 PM PDT by TopQuark
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To: TopQuark
Sorry: a responsible, mature person does not get hooked accidentally;

Disagree -- addiction is a disease that you may not know you have until you're hooked.

and, secondly, even if that happened, such a person does not contuinually and habitually break the law and buy illegal drugs but seeks how to get "unhooked."

Agree. I make a distinction between addiction and subsequent behavior.

108 posted on 10/17/2003 3:35:33 PM PDT by ellery
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