But the addict population, such as it is, really contains a wide cross-section of people of different behaviours and social dispositions. "Emotional parasitism," another name for co-dependency, is something the mainstream attitude easily attributes to addicts. Sure, they're a mess socially and personally when they're using, but dismissing them as parasites dismisses them as never-to-recover, and to be corralled up, doesn't it? This sounds like a born and addict, die an addict evaluation.
Antisociality is a part of, it seems to me, a majority of alcoholics' and addicts' stories. But why judge them on a moralistic level as reprehensible? That just perpetuates the situation and demonization.
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