[B4Ranch]

>>For example, research has shown that most addicts spend at least 18 months taking heroin intermittently before they become addicted. Nor are they ignorant while they take it intermittently of heroin’s addictive properties. In other words, they show considerable determination in becoming addicts:<<

Would anyone care to explain why we should have sympathy for these heroin addicts?

[hinckley buzzard]

Along with the shifting of blame described at the start of the article there is also the sense of entitlement and exoneration from responsibility that comes with achieving victim status.

As the gang member told Officer Krupke in West Side Story: "We're depraved because we're deprived."