Philip Seymour Hoffman or summert...

[mudskipper]

Apparently he'd been off the stuff for 20 odd years.

The most common way for addicts to die is an overdose after they've been off it for a period (it's quite common after coming out of prison). Regular users don't often die from it, and afaik it doesn't cause cancer and other diseases in the same way as alcohol/fags.

I think you have a good point in that much of the problem is societies attitude to addiction. Plenty of addicts do function normally - the issues that hit the news are the crimes committed to get the money to buy the drugs - if they were freely available, that problem would more or less go away, but there would (probably) be a hell of a lot more addicts.

I don't think it should be legalised, but maybe it should be made available (in the form that they crave) to those who are addicted so that it doesn't wreck their and others lives.

[minestrone]

[SimonMac]

The most common way for addicts to die is an overdose after they've been off it for a period (it's quite common after coming out of prison). Regular users don't often die from it, and afaik it doesn't cause cancer and other diseases in the same way as alcohol/fags.

I think you have a good point in that much of the problem is societies attitude to addiction. Plenty of addicts do function normally - the issues that hit the news are the crimes committed to get the money to buy the drugs - if they were freely available, that problem would more or less go away, but there would (probably) be a hell of a lot more addicts.

I don't think it should be legalised, but maybe it should be made available (in the form that they crave) to those who are addicted so that it doesn't wreck their and others lives.

I would imagine regular users build up a tolerance, so when they come back to it they think they can handle the same dosage?!

[SimonMac]

Not too sure why you are trying to tie his death to depression?!