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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 651351" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>We had a similar thread to this recently. I agree with you. My husband and I made the decision to spend quite a bit of money to send our daughter to a residential treatment center since she didn't have health insurance at that time. I compared it to getting her treatment if she had cancer without any health insurance.</p><p></p><p>Some people didn't agree with me since they felt like addicts made a choice to ingest the toxic substances compared to "innocent" cancer victims. It is a mentality that substance abusers deserve to be punished. </p><p></p><p>However, I would argue that many cancer patients made life choices like smoking that led to their cancer but no one thinks that they don't deserve treatment because of those choices.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 651351, member: 1967"] We had a similar thread to this recently. I agree with you. My husband and I made the decision to spend quite a bit of money to send our daughter to a residential treatment center since she didn't have health insurance at that time. I compared it to getting her treatment if she had cancer without any health insurance. Some people didn't agree with me since they felt like addicts made a choice to ingest the toxic substances compared to "innocent" cancer victims. It is a mentality that substance abusers deserve to be punished. However, I would argue that many cancer patients made life choices like smoking that led to their cancer but no one thinks that they don't deserve treatment because of those choices. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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