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   XPost: talk.politics.misc, talk.politics.guns   
   From: pxhxz@cadence.com   
      
   In article <6252e9ac-d850-43d0-ac65-3cac599228dc@f8g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>   
   Brother Nate  writes:   
      
   >It takes a   
   >lot to get an addicted person to make the sort of life change   
   >we're talking about, and as a general rule they don't even try   
   >unless somebody they really care about comes to them and   
   >says "hey man, we're worried about you".   
      
   And even then, the ones with real problems won't listen, thinking they have   
   a handle on it.   
      
   When a person has a very self-destructive habit/addiction, they frequently   
   have to "hit bottom" before they realize they really need to do something.   
   Unfortunately, the bottom for some of them is death...   
      
   -Pete Zakel   
    (phz@seeheader.nospam)   
      
   "... in the case of many drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and heroin the   
    policy of prohibition has already collapsed almost as comprehensively as   
    it did in the case of alcohol, and a lot more violently.  Tobacco may be   
    a scourge.  It is also, oddly, a worked example of a better way for liberal   
    societies to live with drugs."   
   				-The Economist, p14, May 11th-17th 1996   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)