Your shortcomings are the results of your defects. It's not the same.
It's not that complicated.
If you use drugs...The list of your belongings gets shorter and shorter.
Be it families, friends, money, occupations. You stop paying your bills,
and your credit rating gose down. You have less and less credit.
You loose all these things becuase the truth is you don't care.
Getting high was more important becuase you got away with it.
You knew as a child that getting high was bad for you. You were
educated to this fact. You just thought you could get away with it.
Your life became centered around drugs and alcohol or getting high.
You fall short of your protential as a person and the many talents/skills
that you have becuase you don't/applying yourself to your hopes and dreams.
Instead you wasted your life gettting wasted.
A sin is falling short of living your life as god intended for you to live.
You'll fall shot of that if you stick a needle in your arm. You will become
a slave and not live your life. It's not that complicated.