Addicts. Let me ask you guys about addicts.

Drug addicts in particular. How do you view them? Do you view them as horrible people? As people who chose their fate? Do you sympathize or do you view them as a waste?

To me it's so so complicated. I come from a LOOOOONG line of addicts (mom recovered easily, some not so lucky) and I know that I have something hardwired in me to be an addict. Whether it's drugs, alcohol, gambling, or food, I can't escape that programming. Yes, the first time is a choice, but eventually it is not and addicts are victims of a horrible disease.

Yes most don't want help. It's just like how many people with severe mental illness don't think they have mental illness. However the ones that want help, want it desperately, struggle the most.

I wish we as a nation allocated more money into funding actual treatment based on actual research that yielded actual results. As it is, most addicts relapse multiple times, and it breaks my heart to see them treated like these horrible people when they're just unwell.