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And I'm not blaming anyone for becoming addicted to booze/drugs/sex/whatever, thankfully we know the neuro triggers for this kind of stuff now so we can do more to help. BITD I would consider you a total waste of space if you got hooked on smack, totally not fucking cool at all in any of my circles.
We all did drugs but for the most part we didn't go too deep, some did and got burnt and I'm ashamed to say that at times I didn't have too much sympathy for them, we all knew we were playing with fire so you had to take it on the chin and deal with it yourself if it got the better of you. Bit callous looking back.
I saw a couple of people get totally fucked up when I was around 16, one was a quite well off young lad, mum and dad bought him a mansion flat in Clapham when he was 18, within a year he'd sold every stick of furniture and belonging and was renting himself at Piccadilly tube station to get his fix, it was brutal. It was the best life lesson ever.
I started smoking weed at 14 and was already sick of taking LSD by the time I was 18. It all escalated very quickly but I always avoided smack (I'm not counting the opiated black hash we used to get for special occasions).
But now we know it's a disease, I've got it to a degree, I'm lucky I saw the things I did when I did and got turned off going down that path. It could've very easily been me.