Reply #18: On the contrary...

[Heyo]

The person is not "gone".. not at all...

But until the substance abuse problem is resolved, that person will continue to be more and more unrecognizable...but without the chemical alteration, she'll be back

But many addicts recovery, and aside from never being able to touch any type of drug again, they usually turn out to be great people... many people who do really well in recovery are a better person for it.. they learn from it.

You can learn from mistakes.. and addicts damn sure make alot of mistakes....:P if they learned from each one they'd all be Einstein and Steven Hawking. :o

Please, nobody think I am trying to minimize the problem here, I know the pain of it furst hand, just trying to make the point that there is a brighter day for both the addict and his or her loved ones.

Heyo