Do you feel bad for drug addicts?

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Jaimie  JT Profile
Jaimie JT answered

Some.... The ones that are  honestly trying to battle their addictions.

Bikergirl Anonymous Profile

Yes, I do .. I feel for those who struggle and are lost... Even those who are weakened by their inability to help themselves. Everyone has a story .. It's hard to judge without knowing what fuels a persons choices.! However and having said that, I don't endorse enablement. 

So Many seem to become trapped because they find delving into drugs is easier than dealing with their life problems. So many are victims of abuse on one level or another. These are the ones who feel there is no place else to go .. And THAT is just sad. 

Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

To a point.

So many become addicted while they're growing up. They go through that rebellious stage where they think they know more than their parents -- and occasionally they do! -- and the addiction industries (drugs, booze, tobacco) feed on that rebellion and exploit their vulnerability. Once they're hooked it's very difficult for them to break the cycle.

I was lucky in that I grew up before there was a drug problem. Drug users were almost non-existent in Oz until the 1960s but, since then, our kids have been falling through the cracks in time.

And, yes, I've seen it in my own family. Fortunately it worked out OK in the long run.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Dozy, I also have been grateful I finished growing up before the drug culture came to our small town...only 3,000 souls...but when I returned for visits the drugs were there. I am not sure I could have resisted at that vulnerable age.
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
It's so easy to be contemptuous of junkies but nobody thinks that will ever happen to them. Once it does they don't have much room to escape.

One of my kids went down that road but by the time he reached his early 30s he'd been able to chuck it off. We were proud of him.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
I think you and Lynne have lived the experience of how difficult it can be to raise a family in this era.
PJ Stein Profile
PJ Stein answered

For the most part I find it sad. Many of those who start using because they are trying to avoid something painful. And I do feel bad for them. Those who started out of boredom I have little pity for.

Jann Nikka Profile
Jann Nikka answered

No, if it's the ones who take illegal drugs, break the law, lie and steal. No. They abuse the medical system, waste needed resources, use everyone up and cause untold misery and suffering.

If the person had a severe injury and became hooked on a painkillers, I'm empathetic.

otis campbell Profile
otis campbell answered

Being a ex addict alcoholic i was covering up pain. But all i did was create more pain it took several rehabs and trials and tribulations to have 17 yrs sober that i have now. But i cannot use plain and simple

Austin Jones Profile
Austin Jones answered

yes I feel for all that try to battle it and go to rehab my father was a addict to painkillers and after he learned that if he kept abusing them he would never be able to see me graduate in 2017 and he went to rehab and now he is as healthy as he can be

Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

More and more, it is getting closer to 100% yes...I do feel bad for them.

It's almost unbelievable, but in Iowa the overwhelming majority of women checking into prison for drug crimes have histories of childhood abuse (something like 80%+...hard to get good data).

The women are trying to self-medicate for the lasting physical and emotional wounds, and they end up in prison and then dead. They have deeply dysfunctional patterns of coping. Society considers them to be throwaways.

Kevin Bradley Profile
Kevin Bradley answered

I don't feel bad, i feel sad. Because it's their own choice to be a drug addict. Why to feel bad, if the one who take illegal drugs, break the law, lie and steal. "It's their own choice, their own life". Sorry but no bad feeling for them.

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