Truly unfortunate, but I differ with those that call these conditions a disease. I believe it does a disservice to society to label addiction a disease. It allows for abdication of responsibility for what amounts (at least at the onset) to a personal choice. Society has been conditioned that disease is something inflicted on persons through external forces against ones will. Addiction is not such a beast. Once past the drug usage to remain drug free becomes an inner struggle of strength or weakness. I’m sorry for this girl’s passing and her family’s pain.
And if you actually understood addiction and the dis-ease that causes it you wouldn’t make such ignorant statements
What often happens is that they get clean and then try “one more time” at the same level they had worked up to... and that is what kills them. Or they quit too late and it has damaged their liver beyond repair. Once a person starts, it is very difficult to come off it because it plays with the pleasure centers of the brain. It starts a choice but ends a disease. I have had two friends who lost children to addiction in the past year. These were kids who were raised in Christian homes with good values. Drugs leave a devastating legacy.