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Originally Posted by The Cobra
It's not irrelevant if excessive drug usage starts affecting their play. It affects different players in different ways, much like it would your co-workers.
There are lots of people working who have addiction problems. Many are entirely functional. Some are not. Those people become problems.
I agree that it is usually irrelevant. Until it is not.
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Yes, but that isn't the case. When that
becomes the case, there is a problem with that player. And then it is noteworthy.
The problem with these discussions, and with fans talking about (whispering about) players 'partying', is that they are suggesting that there are problems where there aren't.
If someone has an addiction problem, that is a different conversation. But unless that happens, there shouldn't be any conversation at all because they are just kids being kids.
And suggesting they are bad people, or potentially troublesome team-mates, is creating a problem that doesn't exist.