Originally Posted by
Albief15
unlike cancer, furloughs, accidents, or being a victim of crime, drugs don't come out of the dark and sneak up on us. We abuse them willfully.
Not true. Addiction is an illness, not a choice. They are increasingly finding that addiction is as pathological as any other illness. Someone with a shortage of brain neurotransmitters like gamma-aminobutyric acid is no different than someone else getting cancer.
You can't tell an addict to control their impulses any more than you can tell a diabetic's pancreas to make more insulin.