> One thing I can tell you from personal experience and a lot of observation is that an addict is not going to stop unless he or she truly wants to.
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>Or if close-by friends just decide to repeatedly kick the ever-loving beejezus out of the addict - not exactly my first choice, but eventually enough whacks upside the head might convice an addict or two.
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>Just like Judd Nelson put Rob Lowe's head in the toilet in "St Elmo's Fire" (problem is, he didn't do it ENOUGH), suffice it to say that if a PA Crew member became an addict, JB and I would make sure that person was on a first-name basis with the toilet bowl deodorizers. :)

You probably would, but that doesn't mean it would work.

A wise man knows what he doesn't know.