Drug use is a victim-less crime... Nope

You often hear people say that addiction and drug use is a victim-less crime. Usually that’s coming from the drug user themselves and you will hear them say “I’m not hurting anyone just leave me alone”. But that’s simply not true, one out of three people in the United States are affected by drugs or alcohol.

You could be affected by a driver under the influence who hit your dad head-on or a heroin addict who just broke into your house and stole grandmother’s ring she gave when she died and the addict pawns if for $50 to pay for their hundred and $100 a day habit.

Maybe it’s just the anger the pain and the hurt the family goes through when they see their child addicted to pain pills, meth or heroin.

If you spend any time around a family who has someone close to them who is struggling with addiction you will see how it affects them and in some cases destroys the rest of the family.  You see one person in the family wants to hold them accountable any other ends up enabling them and now they are fighting because both of them love their child and have no idea how to help them.

Go to a homeless shelter and talk to the people living there and see how addiction has ruined their lives and now they live on the streets panhandling to get just enough to get their next fix. 

Talk to the girl on the street who left her child with her mother while she was selling her body for $25 to support her heroin addiction to stop the pain she is in because she has not used in eight hours.

Stop and talk to the guy sitting on the park bench with his bottle wrapped in a paper bag, all alone because his family left him because he couldn't stay away from the bottle long enough to hold a job.

Visit the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and see the baby who is addicted to crack cocaine when it was born and listen to that 2 ½ pound baby cry out in pain because he hasn't got his daily fix he used to get through his mother.

Then decide if drug use is a victim-less crime.