i can't agree that life is precious.

I've seen far to many junkies pass on from their own junk. Let's say that Andy is a druggie, he does... meth. Meth is a fun drug after all. It makes you violent so they say. Andy will (like a lot of people on meth) never ever get clean. In fact Andy is going to die in 2 years because of his constant use of meth. That IS his future, as is the future of a lot of street junkies.

Now Andy is running out of money, he lost his job and he is trying to keep his habbit a float of course but he has NO MONEY. Andy does what he has to... and that means steal. Now you can get away with stealing bread from a store... it's easy really but Andy he doesn't need bread he needs meth. Current rate of food stamps is 2 to 1 so that government cheese he's getting can get him high for maybe 2 days (if he's lucky). That leaves 26 sober days for him. He can't deal with that because he NEEDS more.

Andy gives in. He starts robbing people... he will do ANYTHING for meth. He will kill for it. In fact... he does. Sometimes the situation is crazy... sometimes because he's paranoid he HAS to kill the people he mugs. (meth does make you paranoid, it also makes you not care.) So there Andy is... dope hungry and needing cash, he's going to die in 2 years... 2 years to continue killing people. It may be a few... maybe a doctor here or a lawyer there. Andy isn't going to save a life, he isn't going to make a child breath again, he isn't going to help you or anyone you know. Andy is going to kill you because the meth will tell him too for his own protection.

Andy's life... it's not precious. I've been around a lot of junkies. The most rewarding thing they will do is clean up and work at McDonalds. It's really depressing but it's true. I've lost a lot of people I have LOVED to junk and what I've realized is that the person I loved... they were dead the minute they started using. It kills me. It does. Every time I've cried in a clinic over some one I've loved... well I left something of myself there. Every E.R I've had to visit... I'm there still somehow because I can't let go. I have however come to realize that my life is worth more than theirs, because I'm not the one who ditched that college education for a needle.