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Old 02-02-2014, 09:41 PM   #68
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Originally Posted by Mike F View Post
At the risk of derailing the thread, ~95% of drug addicts start as non drug addicts who voluntarily choose to use a substance know to be addictive and toxic to your life. I acknowledge that once you're addicted, it's hell to kick for even the strongest willed people, but the fact that it usually starts voluntarily negates a lot of the sympathy from me.

Apparently Hoffman was clean for 23 years. I guarantee no one forced him to restart using.
No, that's fine, there's lots of people like you out there. I was just referring more specifically to ranchlandselling's post, as he made it sound like Philip was sitting around going "hmm, what should I do today? Hey, maybe I'll stick this needle in my arm and see what happens", when it was clearly a relapse in a serious drug addiction.

Also, there's tons of reasons for drug addictions, and you never really know where, how or why someone started, so it's always a little annoying when you see comments like yours. But like you said, probably not the right thread.
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