if I give you $10 and say to you: you can use it for drugs or for food, whichever you do, was a choice. drug addicts make choices too...and their choice most times is to feed that addiction because they don't want to go through the pain of withdrawal or they enjoy the high. Either way if you "need" it to make it through the day, that's still a choice because a person could also choose to get help and not stay stuck in that situation no matter how much it hurts. It's various factors in this, sure, I'm simplifying but that doesn't negate the point. i say this as someone who knows drug addicts. yes the drugs take a hold of you but until he decided he didn't want that life, all of his decisions were only guided to feed his addiction.