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Originally Posted by Boothy
But people don't chose to be addicts. That's the point. You think Amy wanted to be lying facedown in her own vomit wondering where her next hit of heroin was gonna come from?
It's not a physical disease like cancer but it's definitely a mental one. She didn't wake up one day and decide 'Oh, I'm gonna become a crack addict today'. But through her own personal life experiences, the people she associated with and naivety, her drug use gradually got more and more out of control.
I'm not trying to say she should be seen as a role model, far from it, but I don't think it's fair to say that her death was totally self inflicted. She was in and out of rehab so it's obvious she knew she was messed up. But addiction alters the mind. Unless you've been there, I don't think anyone, myself included, knows just how powerful it can be.
And not being born an addict has no bearing on anything. People aren't born with cancer.
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Well according to recent research some are born with the cancer gene.
Yes all your points are valid, but for me she did choose to take drugs, but I guess the people she surrounded herself with also had addictions and that group would have been hard for her to get away from. I think that Pete bloke is heading the same way, a vunerable person hanging around with addicts is a slippery slope, I have seen with my own eyes, they try and get away but they drag them back.