[berettafan]

my experience with habitual drug users is that they are self-treating some sort of mental flaw. the heroine addict who felt unloved and died on a Baltimore street after robbing his parents house during his sister's wedding, the alcoholics who simply can NOT function in any social situation (even with family) without introducing 'cocktails'; it all seems a variation on a theme.

nobody really takes issue with calling the heroine addict a 'druggy' but i can tell you denying the alky's their 'cocktails' in a social situation produces a very obvious response EVERY TIME in the form of fidgeting, awkward conversations, standing off to one side of the room, eyes darting all over the place trying to avoid contact, etc. same gig IMO but people seem to accept it because it is so widespread.