08/01/2026
Speak to anyone who's lost someone they love to addiction and they'll all tell you the same. The person was, prior to using substance and or, in-between dry spells, was the nicest person you could meet, how they hated what they done, how they made people feel, they guilt they carried.
Yes, people choose to take substance and keep taking it until it has a control over them but, what are they running from, what's the trauma that's keeping them being?
What makes people go in and out of recovery for years, to keep relapsing?
Ask their family if their life was a waste - no, their life was tragic and they were fighting an illness that so many just can't beat.
Addiction is a disease, yes it ruins the persons life, their families, friends, neighbours - whole neighbourhoods but, it's still an illness that we'll never understand unless we've walked that road and lived to tell the tail.
And remember, the person in the street doesn't have the means to get appropriate mental health support like rich and famous, many struggle waiting for support that they so desperately want but just doesn't come. Methadone, Bovidal, Espranor - they help take some of the physical symptoms away but don't do anything for the mental health issues that created the addict.
