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To: Brumar89 who wrote (866195)	6/18/2015 10:49:15 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) of 1579136

It is a lot of speculation, you're right -- but the most likely scenario is that he had some kind of mental illness that led to the drug use. That's normally the way it happens. Otherwise, he could have been an addict although that is less likely. True drug addicts (BORN addicts) are relatively few and far between. Most of the time the drugs are a result of an untreated, or possibly, inadequately treated, mental illness. I had a friend -- recently died -- who was a Vietnam vet and spent a lot of his life on drugs. But he wasn't a drug addict. He was mentally ill when I knew him in the early 70s. The drugs were simply a way of dealing with mental illness no one knew what else to do about. Today, the medical knowledge may be there to treat it, but there are no doctors. If we ended the idiotic War on Drugs and took a small amount of that money and put it into psych treatment, we'd save a LOT of lives.

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