[Sally'sConcerns]

I share that hope with you. At times I've found some of the holier than though responses to people who were addicted almost enough to turn me away from FR.

Maybe the people who are willing to offer their support, prayer and love to Rush will extend the same to strangers who are in the same boat.

Addiction, whether it be to alcohol or drugs, is heartbreaking and it not only affects the addict but the people around him/her.

[MineralMan]

"I share that hope with you. At times I've found some of the holier than though responses to people who were addicted almost enough to turn me away from FR.
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Thanks. I'm not a rabid anti-WOD type, but I do cringe at some of the attitudes here on FR toward the run of the mill drug addict.

Many of those folks also took the drugs, at the beginning, for one sort of pain or another, but the addiction got the better of them.

Yes, addicts steal and break other laws to support their habits. Most don't have the financial resources to maintain their addictions or to get the rehab help they need.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but an addict is an addict. I think it is time to begin treating addiction not as a crime but as the illness that it is.

The high school kid just becoming addicted to crack or heroin or some other drug needs the same concern we're showing toward Rush, in my opinion. Anything less is hypocritical.