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There's reasonably strong evidence to suggest that most illness we experience is due to lifestyle choices and behaviours. I bet you've had some illnesses or injuries in your life that we could say you only had because of your own choices. If you go for a run tomorrow and break your ankle, sorry mate, no help for you, that's just a potential side effect of going for a run. Out for a drive and get into a car accident? Sorry mate, you'll have to bandage yourself up, that's just a potential side effect of your choice to drive. I'm being a bit facetious, but only a bit here.

To kid on that addiction isn't typically preceded by other factors like mental health problems and chronic pain is to be incredibly disingenuous. Nobody starts taking heroin because they're really happy in their life. Drugs are a lot easier to access and provides relief faster compared to trying to access mental health support through the NHS.

Have you watched the TV show Dopesick? While it's about the US's struggles with opiates, it's relevant here too. Opiates, heroin included, are painkillers and they are addictive. A common avenue into opiate use is pain - injuries that don't quite heal, or being put on opiates by your GP, then taken back off them without support to taper down (this is why GPs don't offer opiates anywhere near as much anymore), or chronic pain conditions for which the painkillers you get from your GP just aren't cutting it.

Acting like the issue of addiction is solely one of choice, in absence of all other possible influences and factors that feed into how someone ends up with that choice and why they might make it, is incredibly unfair and unempathetic to the people who struggle with it.
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CreatedTue 3rd May 2022 12:37pm
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