How come junkies get a ton of support and sympathy rather than contempt?

Mental illness is a disease. there's an entire medical community for it. It is embarrassing that your personality is set in a way where you are not able to see things past a superficial level.

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Obviously, you're lying to yourself if you think you helped him if all you did was judge him. Just because you did something doesn't mean you even did the bare minimum for what it is required to actually help somebody.

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I'm sorry you aren't ready to have the maturity to be receptive to the harsh realities of addiction. It's clear that you do not have a personal experience with it. As a result your attitude towards addiction stems from stereotypes. If stereotypes are how you make your judgement, make "your opinions" and view the world. Unfortunately, you're not able to see things accurately. There are people like you who stay brainwashed their entire lives because their beliefs systems were made on a foundation of stereotypes and lies because they live sheltered lives. The saddest thing about these people are they never had their own opinions or got to have their own thoughts because they spent their entire lives just listening to someone else. I pity them. I really hope that you have your awakening so you can become your own person someday. Until then, understand that you cannot live a real life behind a screen and you cannot be your own person if you aren't shaping your own opinions through experience and personal development.

Let me be clear, you do not have your own opinion on what addiction is. You do not have the personal experience of having your own thoughts on it. You simply were told what addiction was and you copied that opinion. 

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"No, NO, NO" that's what addiction as a problem looks like. Unless you went through or know someone who's gone through. It's really easy for you to judge or criticize but there's a lot more going on that your pov.

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Any disease needs treatment and help of a professional to aid the patient by giving the patient lifestyle changes, diet, treatment, most likely exercise and medications. Especially people who aren't motivated to do exercise when it is crucial to their recovery, they probably can use the help of a mental health professional and physical trainer. Obesity not onset by hormones would be a good example of that.

Addiction, people also need professional help to address the disease. For serious addiction, the patient needs a team. A small select few maybe able to overcome it on their own especially if it isn't serious but there is a certain point of addiction where that isn't possible without professional help.

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Because it's mental health and medical concern. They're struggling with addiction, there are serious repercussions of withdrawal that could be life-threatening. 

Physical addiction makes you go back to the substance and so does mental addiction. That's why when we say people struggling with addiction are people who actually struggle. Even when they try to stop they can't just stop especially if withdrawal symptoms are a factor. 

If your body got hijacked by a substance then stigmatizing, criminalizing and throwing doesn't solve anything. If anything it discourages people from getting help.  Mixing these people with criminal may actually turn them into real criminals because of what it takes to survive in jail. Even innocent people who wind up in jail will most likely walk out of jail as criminals because of the things they learn there. That's a bigger indication that the way we jail people is deeply flawed. They serve their time, get out and our system failed in being productive to help them break the cycle of whatever it is that got them into jail in the first place. 

They need a medical facility to do the physical and mental work to get over the addiction or at least put it in remission.

Addiction isn't mind over matter. It's not going to get fixed purely by willpower. There are physical chemical things happening within the body where health professionals call addiction a health problem.

Addiction, by definition, is a behaviour you have no control over. They cant help that tjeyre addicts, any more than you can help that youre an @sshole

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Addiction is a disease.

"Disease that can be overcome. It's not like you have it for life aids."

Addiction is different. You can get treatment, but you can have a relapse.

Do we have a cure for diabetes? No, we only have a treatment that extends life.