forcesunleashed:

the fucked up thing about a lot of drugs is that the danger doesn’t end when you quit

there are drugs whose withdrawals have an equal chance of killing you as the drug itself (heroin, narcotics, alcohol) 

there are drugs like methadone and suboxone that are literally addictive, despite being used to treat heroin, meth and narcotic addicts 

groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous etc. are extremely subjective to the leaders of the different chapters; especially because the 12 Steps are based in Christian theology. There are a lot of open groups, but there are just as many groups that are ableist, antisemitic, islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic, etc that isolate addicts that are otherwise marginalized (this is especially true for AA) 

The road to recovery is not simple. So only respecting addicts that are succeeding in recovery is still just as ableist and bigoted as not respecting any of us