Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
[people should obey the law]

Thanks for your overly simplistic (and out of touch with the scientific evidence that drug addiction is a genetically-based mental illness) response. If you spent half as much time as you spend posting here researching what doctors and scientists have discovered about the biological basis of drug addiction, you might understand it better.

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
feel sorry for the parents 80% of the time. They didn't raise their kids to die at 35.

How do you know? There is plenty of evidence that drug addiction is inherited and also influenced by environment. Many drug addicts were raised by parents (or at least one parent) who were alcoholics or drug addicts themselves.

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Speaking of which, safe? The oldest "victim" out of 34 was 57, and that seemed like an aberration. I gotta wonder how many years heroin takes off a user's life.

Heroin is an incredibly dangerous drug to become addicted to. I feel incredibly sorry for anyone who does become addicted to that drug. However, heroin is even more dangerous because its purity is not regulated by the government.