The thing with addiction tho Evey is that although I also believe that its an individuals right to choose what to put into your body, you have had the same experience as me, an opiate addiction, and I would hope that by now you have the insight to see that by the nature of the problem once you are hooked on drugs such as codeine and heroin (which is just a pro -drug for Morphine when it comes down to brass tacks) - your choice is quickly taken away from you as forget how to live without using the drug. I am so pro choice when it comes to such issues but I am unable to justify my liberal views as I am living proof that while 99% of cannabis users will never go on to develop an addiction to heroin, 100% of heroin users started with cannabis and speed or acid before moving up the chain to pills, coke and the amber necter itself, so sharing my views regarding an individuals choice to put want they want into themselves is completely untenable from my position, as I'm now 2 years into my methadone treatment and while my heroin use has steadily reduced by about 50% very month or so and that my taper is going so well that I only have a couple of opportunities left to use if I don't want to fuck the reduction up, It has cost my everything from my car, to my career, my social life and even once clean my behaviour has labelled me as someone so disgustingly immoral that I am now vilified to such an extent that only a paedophile is considered more odious within my pretty county village - I only have to go to the local shop to be subjected to children I don't even recognise asking me (sarcastically of course) 'yo - you got a clean pin a could borrow - I promise you can have it back once everyones used it' and other comments of that nature. I am treated like a fucking leper as while its never been the sort of dug use one can condone, at least it was common enough when I lived in Wolverhampton that it was accepted as a common problem, without ever being actually acceptable in general.
