Yeah. They're also not the ones we think about when we think "drug addict" either. Functional drug users often slip under our radar because more often than not, we don't even know they're on drugs. It's the extremes that cause the stigma.not all addicts are so hardcore, are they?
That's not what you think about - and I presume you're a US citizen. Where I grew up, we never had meth addicts. The worst we ever heard about was heroin. For me, those hooded Adidas-wearing young men are drug addicts ad extremis. It was much later that I learned about the debiliating effects of more potent drugs on one's skin, from the US media. Our views on the matter differ significantly. Compared to the US, my perception of a typical drug addict is much milder, and vice versa.They're also not the ones we think about when we think "drug addict" either.