HMA, great, thoughtful response. Thank you.
To be clear, my issue is with how this article will, can, and has triggered some loved ones of addicts into feeling tremendous guilt for imagined failures. I saw this shared on no less than five feeds last night, with messages tacked on in the vein of "I guess I should have done more for the addicts in my life, perhaps they'd be alive today." My fingers were practically bleeding from typing and re-typing, "Please don't do this to yourself."
On the flip side I also saw it posted with the remark "Drug addicts are selfish: Wrong," which triggered me terribly as well since, in the same way that SOME people are selfish, SOME drug addicts ARE selfish and shouldn't be given a pass based on the non-science of this HuffPo piece.