I Spent 8 Months With Drug Addicts, And Here Are 26 Saddening Photographs I Took

I disagree, Jesus specifically says in the Bible that he has come for the sick. Not the rich, the sick, but see everyone is sick because everyone has sinned, we just have to acknowledge that we have fallen short of the glory of God. He came for everyone! The poor, the sick, and the lonely! He loves US! He doesn’t come for the “rich” because everyone has issues, but not everyone acknowledges that they need God. I don’t know what your going through, I don’t know why you don’t know Jesus’s love for you. But I’ll be praying and hoping you will understand some day....

Pain, no matter how you cut it. (No pun, at all.) Sad.

Bawling; because you screwed up again.

No one.

Not every addict is in denial. Many are acutely aware of their addiction and even the consequence and they accept their fate. Life without drugs is just far too painful for them to bear. This is why we need to better our support systems for trauma, mental illness etc and to better educate people on the alternative often medical options. I'm done with the b******t that is the current trend where the topic of pop psychology hijacks every influencer's account 🙄

They didn't choose anything.

They didn't chose it. May be they accepted the risk, maybe they even accepted the addiction, but they never said or thought "Life is too easy, my problems don't get me fed up yet, I may need an expensive hobby that poses a lot of bad side effects and potentially lethal threats to me - I'll just get into using cocaine, thereby, I also take a severe risk of seriously losing my brain's functions if I can maintain it for long enough!" - but, nobody choses to be an addict. No one sets this goal and celebrates reaching it, quite the opposite. Sad that people chose to judge instead of getting facts and stuff before, and MAYBE then judge in the cases the judgery is justified. Does NOT apply to all. And, on top - some of the nicest, most caring people I got to know are or were drug addicts. Those who died, young and by OD'ing, even more - one girl I got to know when I was 13, at a summer camp in France, died of an H overdose, aged no more than 19. She was a few years older than I was, must have been 15 or 16 when she died. I remember her as sacrificing herself to help others, doing more than she could, more than all the obedient soberists combined, while already bearing a load she wasn't able to carry (family issues, violence), nor able to talk about. In the end, the causes' cause, the reason she had to do the reason of her own death, may be the silence she forced herself into, and couldn't force herself out of neither... Judgemental people, people who never can just take you for what you are, who don't offer any help in regard to anything else than substance abuse - "Get clean first, before you achieve that, we won't assist you in leaving your violent home and your violent parents!" - unless that already has been ended, are a main reason that help is effectively unavailable, although right there ... does it make sense to continue selfpoisoning? Of course not! But not everyone is ready to quit, despite of being in need of help that at least is not available to them ... were they able to find help that matches their needs, maybe most wouldn't even have gotten addicted...? Some cases - yes. Some just wanted to party and overdid this ... well, these usually have a lot less of a hard time quitting. Never saw any intelliget ones that remained addicted by such a chain of events for very long ... but crushed and broken, still smart and compassionate, people I saw and see being addicted for decades straight, adding more and more to the brokenness...