John in Covina said:****************
Actually, there comes a time for many addicts when their habit cannot be supported by a normal income and theft or prostitution enters the picture.
The drug use may interfere with the performance of their job and they lose it.
(There was a term in NYC a while back for a junkie prostitue, a battery girl. It references the fact that like a battery she runs on chemicals.)
I have seen first hand some people get their lives really screwed up on drugs and to say they were the only people that suffered is incorrect. There is also that lack of quality time it tends to create for parents, spouses and children of the drug addicted. Relationships were often ruined.
Being a jerk to your family is not usually an offense that requires clogging up the prison system?
Most drug-users have jobs. Most people who drink have jobs. I don't think we should make liquor illegal because some drunks don't work. Prohibition is a little too Golden Age for me. [huh]
-Viola