Tempted To Powder Your Nose?

[NoMercy]

Surely this is enough to put you off ever indulging...?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5583135/amp/Daniella-Westbrook-reconstructive-surgery-Star-drinks-12-pints-milk-DAY-stop-face-rotting.html?ico=amp_dontMiss

She looks a fright - and yet now she is awaiting pioneering surgery to stop her face collapsing - no doubt at the expense of the taxpayer!

Your thoughts?

[kvalidir]

Rightyho, good for you.

[ummmm]

I know she needs to make money by selling her stories etc but I think in the long run she's just put more pressure on herself over the years.

[NoMercy]

I don't understand ANYONE taking cocaine but people who are blessed with looks like Westbrook, Kate Moss (who looks incredibly ropey these days), etc... I mean, cocaine is expensive and does nothing to enhance your looks so why even try it in the first place?

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[NoMercy]

I've met a few undesirables in my life, but have never been remotely tempted to, "Try it, just this once."

Whilst I understand she must be tortured, her injuries are all self-inflicted.

[woofgang]

I hope that the self righteous commenters on here never make a bad choice...........

[naomi24]

^Ditto that.

[ToraToraTora]

the horrrorr

[NoMercy]

We all make bad choices, Woof, but its a question of degrees.

Hitler made bad choices.

[Old_Geezer]

Poor beggar.
We all do daft things occasionally, some folk more daft that others; and sometimes we don't get away with it.
Wouldn't wish that on anyone.

[Kromovaracun]

I agree with Naomi. She's paid quite a hefty price for her bad decisions and this is a tragic example of what drugs can do to a person. I hope she recovers and is able to get some semblance of her life back.

[youngmafbog]

Don't take drugs.

[NoMercy]

She has indeed, Kromo, which is whyI can't understand her starting drugs in the first place.

Alcohol is a different ballgame entirely. A slippery slope in some unfortunate cases (Ant McPartlin) but a single glass of wine or pint of beer is sociable and not illegal or immoral. A single line of coke is a different matter.

I think there should be more education from a young age on the evils of drugs, with a heavy dose of scare tactics!

[Barmaid]

I feel quite sorry for her. It's relatively easy for us sat at home on our laptops to say "I would never do x y z" but the reality is that in the type of profession where it is rife I can see how it might happen. Suddenly shot to fame, lots of ready cash, get a bit tiddled, someone suggests you try it "It's fine Danny, you wont get addicted, seriously, love it's just a bit of fun". (I am of course guessing, but one can see how this might play out).

And then months or years down the line, there is the realisation that there is an addiction. Addiction doesnt happen over night, it's a slippery slope, it's boiling frog syndrome.

She's made some really bad decisions and is paying a heavy price.

[Kromovaracun]

//I think there should be more education from a young age on the evils of drugs, with a heavy dose of scare tactics! //

There already is. I was exposed to lots of horrifying pictures in school.

I'm not sure I fully agree on the contrast with alcohol - I mistrust it as much as I do any narcotic (and consume neither). It's just as capable of ruining lives and bodies. If alcohol were a new drug, introduced very recently, we would ban it without hesitation. But it isn't and has been legal for so long that it is impossible to ban.

[ummmm]

I don't think addicts set out to become addicts! They think they can do it now and then and be okay, some can, some can't. They don't know they have an addicted personality until they are addicted to something.

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt that you are right there spath. Sympathy for suffering is unlikely to depend on wealth. Maybe if the suffering individual had done great wrong the sympathy would be limited.