[quote name='fatherofcaitlyn']Drug addiction is on the same level as multiple sclerosis or cancer. Alcohol and pills force themselves down your throat. Heroin injects itself into your veins. Cocaine rolls up a dollar bill and runs up your nose. Wait for it ...

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Is ODing on drugs a necessary component to working on "B" movies and taking care of a cancer-ridden mother?
If he had died with nothing in his system and organ damage from past drug use was the cause of death, your picture of a man turning his life around would be accurate. It happens. It is sad when it happens.
The autopsy will determine my final opinion. If he died clean and sober, I'll be more than happy to take down the "Weekend at Corey Haim's" picture. If he ODed like the cops think he did, you'll continue to feel his death is a tragedy and I'll have my opinion that another spoiled Hollywood junkie killed himself validated.
As far as my personal knowledge of drugs and addiction, I've watched drunks in my stepmother's family ruin the lives of their wives and children. When they died or their wives left them, their survivors' lives improved substantially.
A death isn't always a bad thing.[/QUOTE]
Just because someone tries a drug doesn't mean they wanted to keep doing it or do it enough that it leads to their death. People do dumb/desperate stuff when their young or when they're miserable. They don't realize how they can become addicted so easily. I doubt you've ever done drugs or been so low that they were the only thing preventing you from committing suicide. You don't seem to be able to relate to that.
What's so bad about working on B movies? You gotta start at the bottom when you want to have a career in something. What were your first jobs like? When you screw up you have to start back at the bottom again.
By your logic you would also believe that all drunks want to be drunks and want to ruin the lives of those around them because they're choosing that intentionally, not that some (most) of them have no control over their addiction.
Tell that to his mother who no longer has him by her side helping her through her chemo and to his family and friends who enjoyed his company.
Furthermore, you do not know yet how he died, whether it was from OD or from something else. So it's okay to piss on someone's grave because you assume something about them and then go back and wipe it down with a towel when you find out their autopsy results...
[quote name='yukine']Oh please... spoken like an addict. You make the choice to use drugs, I was around drugs where I lived growing up and I never touched the stuff. I made that choice, he did not.[/QUOTE]
Unless you live in someone else's shoes you cannot judge the decisions they make. He made the choice to try drugs under circumstances that many people would try drugs under. He did not choose to become as addicted as he did and to ultimately die from it.