In addition, but not only the dumbass victim.
Here is the way I look at doing dope. I really have nothing against it, different than drinking. Legal, illegal, it is going to happen. I have seen people drink themselves to death, also. I drank underage and got away with it, never endangering others and living through endangering myself. Same with doin dope such as pot, hash, downers, speed, wide range of hallucinogenics, such as varieties of acid and mescalin, but I always knew what I was getting. The big thing that is getting kid, athletes, junkies, pain sufferers today is not knowing what they are getting, because where they are coming from and how they are processed. Not like the old days when you could look it up in a PDR (except for the microdots) and it actually was the exact pharmaceutical manufactured drug in the dose, you thought you were playing with. At least that is how it was around here. Now, it is not, and you do not know what you are getting. To take it is to experiment with your life. I have had friends that got caught up and hooked, seeing them go down hill, get killed in accidents, or just OD. I missed them, but always knew who's fault it was for what happened to them. They started out, having fun, just like I, but got carried away with the fun, until what once were vices became habits. I wrote off a bunch first 3 years after highschool and saw several dead of accident or OD, but I was just a weekend hippy. I walked some of those to the grave, but always knew it was their decisions that killed them. I couldn't go that way and never went down that road, finally severing ties with that side of my life. But, knowing it and living through it, I know it is the decisions we make that make the difference. These idiots taking street drugs these days are fools and often come to a bad end.