A magistrate’s order can feel like the end of the road. For many families across South Africa, it is closer to the opposite: it is
The first thing most people notice with cocaine is how fast it works and how quickly it fades. A few minutes of feeling sharp and
Most people don’t wake up one day and decide to become dependent on a substance. It tends to creep in quietly. A drink to take
Choosing to get help for addiction is hard enough close to home. Doing it from another country, while juggling flights, visas and the worry of
People have been making and drinking alcohol for an astonishingly long time, and for almost as long they have wrestled with what to do about
Most people who develop a drinking problem never set out to. It starts as a few drinks after a hard week, a way to take
Families often describe the same painful puzzle. The person they love is intelligent, kind and capable, yet heroin keeps pulling them back no matter how
Most people who binge drink would never call themselves problem drinkers. They go weeks without touching alcohol, then a braai or a Friday night out
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to
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