[Etixos]

You are very right: alcoholics and addicts need love, not judgement. If you haven't been there, you cannot understand what it is like to be addicted. I was an alcoholic for a good 25 years, and heard many heartbreaking stories while I was in treatment. Heroin is one of the toughest drugs to kick. This young lady may have used heroin, but be assured that heroin used her much harder.

Best,
Etixos

>>>Good night, all.<<<

[8mmMauser]

Etixos, I appreciate those remarks. I, too, was like you, was hospitalized decades ago for alcohol overdose, and we lost our dear niece who, like Lauren, had kicked the habit or so we thought, and overdosed after being clean, and died. Many of us on these threads have been there.

Grunthor, I am only glad my family did not take the approach that it was ok to snuff me, and sentence me to death by two weeks of dehydration because of my addiction overdose. It is just a little harsh when ruthless killers whine about the cruelty of lethal injections, and the innocent get the painful route not allowed for the nastiest of animals.

[wagglebee]

Thanks for your reply. I am an alcoholic (and used more than my share of drugs), I hit bottom when I was 23 and have been sober for seventeen and a half years.

I have seen more times than I care to remember the horrors that heroin has brought to addicts and their families. However, in Lauren’s case, heroin is no longer an issue. She will NEVER use it again, of that we can be certain.