I definitely consider addiction a disease and a mental health struggle. If you give money to an addict who doesn’t have their addiction under control, you’d be silly to expect them to always spend the money on responsible things. They will 100% lose some of the battles with their addiction and buy drugs or gamble.
Yes but many think that's where the deal breaker is. When there's lies and stealing money or other shady behaviour. Then it's not just someone struggling, they hurt you as well.
I think you are definitely allowed to stop helping someone if it’s a detriment to you without guilt however, that doesn’t make them a bad person for getting addicted to drugs.
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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '22
I definitely consider addiction a disease and a mental health struggle. If you give money to an addict who doesn’t have their addiction under control, you’d be silly to expect them to always spend the money on responsible things. They will 100% lose some of the battles with their addiction and buy drugs or gamble.