Addiction is a disease, not a moral failure. The post you are responding to exemplifies the condescending mindset that is prevalent in those who have no experience with the deep abyss of addiction. Nobody became an addict by choice. I will always remember the conversation I had with an addict years ago. He told me something I'll never forget for the rest of my life: >"I've been to an addiction clinic, and it was then that I realized that everybody there, without exception, had one thing in common. It mattered not who they were, where they came from, or what drug they were addicted to: not a single one of them had any love for themselves." Addicts will always be looked down upon and scorned. But society's negative attitude pales in comparison to the deep self-hatred addicts have for themselves. The rise of addiction indicates we live in a deeply diseased society. A society where true and false are inverted. A society where there is little love to be found, least of all for the addict.