Of course, the irony is that the addict’s drug of choice is actually causing death. But for the addict, it doesn’t seem so. It seems the opposite. We mentioned this point earlier and said that it would be explained, so here is an explanation. Consider the following analogy. A person, God forbid, is suffering from an incurable disease of the body. The doctors say that they cannot make it go away but they may be able to force it into remission with chemotherapy. Now, the doctors admit that the chemotherapy has dangerous side-effects; it may even kill the patient before the disease does, but if
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