New York Post columnist %uh entry up highs near
wrote about philip Seymour Hoffman's death and she is a little annoyed that
people seem to be so
sympathetic toward him and his family yeah that is really not really badly got
a great actor dies the law people related to an
NYU sympathetic to ACA okay
but surprisingly I'm gonna happen agree with her yeah okay so she says the
following:
hot man has been painted by leaders in the drug trade not as an adult who made
the fatal decision to get high so her concern is the people
are treating him as though he is a victim as opposed to someone who made a
decision for himself
to go shoot up heroin right I'm she continues to write
in the end heroin was Hoffman's companion the sad inventory items police
found in his apartment included 50 plastic bags of heroin
bearing the words ace of spades and ace apart
bus 20 empty bags there were twenty EU syringes and a batch of fresh ones
50 vials containing various prescription pills
and a charge spoon half unlikely used to cook up his final fix
hoffman had been sober for 23 years before
diving off the wagon he made his choice so
they're happy agree with is now there's this whole thing about who sold on the
drugs go get the drug dealers
I on its a fine Academy relevant
the he decide to take the drugs so it's not like them
the drug use made him take the Giants the with the syringes are they did by
all means let's arrest
right but I i I don't find that their role in it so I agree with you that he
did make a choice right
now the question is and on the part I disagree with his
heard needlessly richer Alto yeah like he made his choice n away very
sympathetic its normative be sympathetic and we know he made his choice but
you don't you know like you need to be hostile about it
I think she fails to understand you know the severity of addiction and how it
really is an illness right
and she makes a point about how that kinda becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy
when people treat you is if you have this disease then you're more likely to
treat yourself
as a victim and then relapse rate so she makes up when I think that there could
be some credibility to that
but I don't like how she just kinda on
ignores the piper be littles the fact that
this addiction is a real illness that should be treated
right so so that's or a 50-50 right so
look on the one hand up some people are more predisposed to
drugs rate to to becoming a way to get to two strikes
I should say including being addicted to alcohol right so if he drew the short
straw
well after however many drinks here for more likely to become an alcoholic and I
am
so that I get to judge you and say hi
oh yeah you Alki or whatever right same thing with drugs and drug
rain well I was it is predisposed as you are so
yes I understand their point and so she should be far more sympathetic that
another hand I am really like in the end it is your choice
and I'm afraid the people use the whole illness talk as an excuse
I as a way of saying like well what can I do I was so that's I'm
I'm sick so I had to do it somebody keep doing it because I'm predisposed
I i think thats not uncommon
right I so I think the answer is both
right and I would feel greatly severity Philip Seymour Hoffman cuz he's
obviously for more prone to addiction
then I am more than average guy is right at the same time he did make a choice
you know I understand that
and I don't want the next guy I think you know there's nothing I could have
done
I think my biggest issue with this is people tend to forget the fact that when
we
experienced people in our lives or people that we know who go out
in the the use drugs it's usually a moment of desperation especially with a
hard drugs like heroin
read because if you're genuinely happy with your life and things are going well
you're not gonna think hey you know what I'm gonna go shoot up heroin %uh
eight people do when they're in very very dark places in their lives and if
you're already predisposed to having an addiction
then you become hooked and you go down this spirals downward spiral
so I just I I wish that her tone was definitely different
%uh I don't know what percentage of people use their
on illness as an excuse to continue using the drugs as we don't have hard
numbers on that I have no idea I feel comfortable saying that
but again you know you have to take into account that is really
is an illness and you also have to take into account the people don't use drugs
when they're in a happy place in their lives they do it when they're desperate
when they're sad when they're lonely
I think she might particularly it be
upset about this cuz she probably be useful to see more of minutes someone
who successful
hence well we really had to be a choice he didn't have to be in a dark place
right but you don't know who's psychology don't knows
you know personal issues you don't know anything about him so that's an unfair
way of thinking about it as well I guess every time you say illness I that's
where
eros me the wrong way a little bit preview for more predisposed to
addiction
I'm totally worth the minute we use the word illness I feel a little
uncomfortable because it makes it seem like
its predestined predetermined are you get cancer you can sort as you do you
know what i'm saying
it but he's not like that you there is something you do you try to
you know battle it and and and get off good
drugs rock alright but a huge percentage 150 percent of people who
stop drinking alcohol for instance because they found out okay I'm I'm an
alcoholic
oMG they do relapse most people who go to treatment programs just like Philip
Seymour Hoffman
you know they get clean and then at some point the relapse again and it's because
it is an illness it goes beyond just being predispose about addiction
now I'm gonna stay where okay been
Ellis still use the word always makes me accountable
call me what you will