It's bad enough that someone so talented, an Oscar winner died in his 40s, but then anyone who loses his/her life to addiction is a tragic loss.  PSH's death was a grim reminder that addiction and staying clean/sober is a life-long battle.

Philip Seymour Hoffman was clean for 23 years, and then last year he went back to drugs. They found him dead with a syringe sticking out of his arm, and bags of heroin in his apartment. Imagine the kind of self-loathing he must have felt, imagine…