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Philip Seymour Hoffman

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 what his partner and kids must have had to face knowing that their spouse/parent relapsed after 23 years, and was a full blown junkie.

Addiction is a life long battle. In this day and age, almost all of us know someone or are someone who struggle with it. Food, antidepressants, even internet & TV addiction are on that list besides the regular ones we all know of.

If it affects your health, you must get help. Support does not entail judging the other, seeking help is not a stigma.

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Comment by Queen Dopamine on March 6, 2014 at 6:19pm: Well-said... I wish I could say something other than "I wish that people would get help". It's not that easy. It's a crappy place to be in when you're addicted. You can't see the light. You don't know what's going on. It's hard to make that choice to get help, but it is so stigmatized that it's easy to put it off or make excuses.