didn’t read the whole article.
zero sympathy here.
Just don’t do it. If you start, just stop.
Addiction is a character flaw, nothing else.
And stop with the “ My brother was . . . My sister was .. .. “. If you care, help them stop. Can’t stop? G-d’s way of cleansing the planet.
We’ve been through this before. It’s a generational thing. Enough time passes and we forget.
Cocaine at the turn of the last-last century, barbituates in the 40’s and 50’s, heroin in bad old days of the 70’s, the “crack epidemic”.
Drug users, drunks, fat asses, most diabetics; you did it to yourself through bad personal choices.
Where was your caring family then??
Wow, you must be the embodiment of the second coming, because you must be a perfect specimen in all ways.
I’m glad that you’ll never have to endure any problems in your family.
Perhaps you should break FReeper tradition and actually read the article.
Yes, people are weak, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be a death sentence.
Getting addicted may be a character flaw - being addicted is a neurochemical imbalance in the brain. "Character" can no more cure it than it can diabetes (however acquired).