Have you heard the ad on yahoo free radio ‘turn to help.com” where heroin addiction is called a disease?

Question by sanjac1836: Have you heard the ad on yahoo free radio ‘turn to help.com” where heroin addiction is called a disease?
This is just too PC for me. I’m a child of the 60’s and a junkie is a junkie, it is not a disease, it is a bad life choice, it’s just a case of stupidity,
Ignorance has a cure, stupidity is often fatal (just not often enough)
In answer to Normannen, no it is not. See Darwin.

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Answer by Normannen
It is a disease. Do you think they can just quit cold-turkey? Extensive treatment is needed.

Stupidity isn’t fatal often enough? What a horrendous thing to say. Drug users’ lives aren’t worth as much as yours?

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