U.K. Drinking Costs

[Shawnee123]

Which is exactly why alcohol treatment is important. People will say it's a choice, drinking. I agree with that to some degree, but making the choice in an illness, a disease, may require treatment. We don't discuss treatment for diseases that are attributable to obesity, or not walking a mile a day to stay heart-healthy, but we will discuss costs of treatment for drinking or smoking or drug use, and there will be uprising that these dregs of society don't just pick themselves up by their bootstraps and quit doing what it is that is making them unhealthy.

At least, I think that was the original point of the thread, that it is bound to come up that there are people who will be outraged that Johnny the Alcoholic will get treatment, when Johnny the Alcoholic quit his job some time ago and has no personal insurance.