silverfaun wrote:

Never being an addict or the recipient of welfare was my decision in life.

I decided I'd work and educate myself to rise up in life and not go the easy way out and hit the bottle or drugs or worse, have a couple of children to see me through life without ever having to work.

I found it rewarding and fulfilling to be that way and I have seen what sit down money does and I've seen the destruction of families who never worked from one generation to the next.

Propping up the lifestyle choices of addicts is the soft option of governments instead they should take an altogether different option and not keep enabling this lifestyle choice.

Getting well and being a productive human being is better than anything else. The victim status placed on addicts is enabling them to continue their destructive lifestyle.

The poor me I'm an addict is pathetic.

Ever tried to quit smoking?? I did and it was hard, the hardest addiction to ever overcome, more addictive than heroin, psychologically addictive,  and that drug is legal.

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That's what I was talkin about up ^^^^^^^^^^^

The attitude that people make a choice to be on welfare ....think about the cost of living and the amount welfare recipients receive and consider what sort of 'lifestyle' that gives them .Barely surviving is not my idea of a lifestyle choice and not one I would take if there was any other option .

As far as paying the costs for addictions .Do you think the user pays a price ? What about those around them ? Is it fair of you or anyone else to suggest that other humans should pay the other costs (the costs that matter or should where the Health Care System is involved...those which are  related to 'life' ?

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 Dr Gruenert said "We all know that in those weeks and months, anything can happen. They might lose motivation, they might harm their child, their family might kick them out of home, they might engage in high-risk behaviour or get a dodgy batch of heroin and overdose. Any of those things are possible."

 

 

 

In a blunt budget submission to the state government, chief executive of the association Sam Biondo said funding for drug and alcohol services was "grossly untenable and unfair". He called for a review of deaths and waiting times for care.

"The benefits derived by treatment are felt not just by the individuals, their families and loved ones but by the rest of our community as well," he wrote.

 

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/drug-addicts-die-waiting-for-treatment-20120319-1vfxu.html#ixzz2us...