posted the following on a CBC.ca article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_mallick/20070126.html
First off, I must say that this is the best description of the horrors of socially unacceptable addictions that I have ever read. However, I strongly disagree with the position that all drugs should be available to all adults: many leave trails only of destruction and despair, hurting not only the consumers but those that love them, more dangerous than alcohol in their extreme addictiveness. And how exactly would making all drugs available at fancy little boutiques prevent atrocities such as the one that inspired this article? I posit that official red-light districts offer much greater protection to these Desperates: routine medical exams, safe worksite, and more importantly, social acceptance (if at least from a peer support group) and a modicum of dignity. Fighting the conditions that lead to addictions is far more effective than picking up the pieces of the lives they have destroyed.
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