alt Hacker NewsI'm going to change one word of what you posted:
> I realize people are trying to make over opiod abuse into some sort of addiction. It makes it easier to not blame the person and absolves them of all personal responsibility for their condition - they just can't help themselves, don't ya know!
I change one addiction to another addiction. If people find the above distasteful, I agree, but my question is why do you believe one thing for food addiction and another thing for other addictions?
Let me ask you, does one become addicted to opioids by accident? Or did they make a choice to start using opioids?
So their addiction was a choice - and now they have developed a chemical dependency which is no longer a choice.
There is no such chemical dependency from eating two cheeseburgers for dinner instead of one.