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Drugs are expensive - so why would some poor people waste their money on drugs and alcohol? Why turn to teenage gangs and knife crime - and use poverty as their lame 'excuse' for stabbing and mugging and murdering people and taking drugs? I don't accept their feeble excuses. People have a choice to not take drugs - no matter how hard life gets and no matter what bad experiences they've had in life. It's a cowards way out to require drugs to cope with life - and a false escape from reality. If anything it will just make their problems worse - and they should know that with all the education about drugs in secondary schools. All the money they spend on drugs and alcohol over several years could be spent on travel and holidays.
What about all the hard working and responsible people who are on a low income and either study hard (despite the very high student fees for English students in the UK - as English university students in the UK have to pay thousands of pounds for their education and end-up with high student fee debts in England,) or those from poor backgrounds who work very hard to improve their situation in life.
There's also drug addicts amongst the wealthy too - especially amongst millionaire rock stars, supermodels, etc. (The difference is that they can afford to fund their habit and fund all their private healthcare costs.)
There's also many poor people who aren't alcoholics and who don't foolishly turn to drugs, and who take responsibility for their decisions, actions, and choices in life. They don't carry a vicitim mentality, but have a self-empowering mentality of taking responsibility and making their own choices.
It's like we hear the same lame excuses whenever crimes are committed ... 'Oh, but he had a really difficult childhood...' 'Oh, but he's from a poor background...' (ad nauseum) to excuse their behaviour. Yeah, lots of people have had difficult childhoods, traumatic experiences, aren't from wealthy backgrounds... but don't go around mugging and stabbing people, nor resort to illegal drugs and alcohol to cope with life.
Blame the government, blame their parents, blame their childhood, blame everyone else... heck, blame the pet cat... except for taking responsibility for their own decisions and choices.
'People don't always have power over the situations and circumstances around them in life;- but people do have power and self-control over how they react to life.' This is a self-empowering statement which helps people to realise the self power in their own hands to make positive decisions in life.
There's free drug rehabilitation and alcoholic help clinics available to people, free prescriptions to help wean them off street drugs, free counselling and therapy sessions, etc - but despite all the free support and help available to addicts - they also need to want to help themselves and have willpower, self-discipline, self respect, and a desire to be strong and break free from drugs.... otherwise they'll either end-up in prison for crimes related to drugs - or will end-up in an early grave. That's the stark reality of going down the road of drugs... but they can change from the self-destructive path they're walking along if they're determined to make the effort.
It's like going to the gym... you've got to stick at it.
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