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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCompassionate Conservatism: NY Post columnist says Philip Seymour Hoffman "made his choice."
NY Post Columnist's Ugly Comments About Philip Seymour Hoffman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/ny-post-philip-seymour-hoffman-peyser-andrea-drug-heroin-disease_n_4759996.html
New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser is fueling fires with her latest piece that argues no one is to blame for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's death than Hoffman himself.
In a column she wrote Sunday, Peyser made clear that she believes Hoffman's death was "his choice" and that we should no longer portray him as a victim. She argued that since his death, Hoffman has been "painted by leaders in the drug trade not as an adult who made the fatal decision to get high," but rather "infantilized as the victim of a 'disease' a word I reject like ebola."
Peyser, the same columnist who has taken heat for her articles on topics ranging from weight to race, went on to dismiss medically supported theories that addiction is an "illness." She quoted several doctors and recovery professionals who argue addiction is "a medical disease" with "no cure."
"In the end, heroin was Hoffmans companion." she wrote. "The sad inventory of items police found in his apartment included 50 plastic bags of heroin bearing the words 'Ace of Spades' and 'Ace of Hearts,' plus 20 empty bags. There were 20 used syringes and a batch of fresh ones, five vials containing various prescription pills, and a charred spoon Hoffman likely used to cook up his final fix. Hoffman had been sober for 23 years before diving off the wagon. He made his choice."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/10/ny-post-philip-seymour-hoffman-peyser-andrea-drug-heroin-disease_n_4759996.html
New York Post columnist Andrea Peyser is fueling fires with her latest piece that argues no one is to blame for actor Philip Seymour Hoffman's death than Hoffman himself.
In a column she wrote Sunday, Peyser made clear that she believes Hoffman's death was "his choice" and that we should no longer portray him as a victim. She argued that since his death, Hoffman has been "painted by leaders in the drug trade not as an adult who made the fatal decision to get high," but rather "infantilized as the victim of a 'disease' a word I reject like ebola."
Peyser, the same columnist who has taken heat for her articles on topics ranging from weight to race, went on to dismiss medically supported theories that addiction is an "illness." She quoted several doctors and recovery professionals who argue addiction is "a medical disease" with "no cure."
"In the end, heroin was Hoffmans companion." she wrote. "The sad inventory of items police found in his apartment included 50 plastic bags of heroin bearing the words 'Ace of Spades' and 'Ace of Hearts,' plus 20 empty bags. There were 20 used syringes and a batch of fresh ones, five vials containing various prescription pills, and a charred spoon Hoffman likely used to cook up his final fix. Hoffman had been sober for 23 years before diving off the wagon. He made his choice."
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Compassionate Conservatism: NY Post columnist says Philip Seymour Hoffman "made his choice." (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Feb 2014
OP
Andrea Peyser is the absolute bottom of the barrel and a nasty piece of work
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
Feb 2014
#5
Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)1. So did a lot of DUers
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)2. She is a horrible person whatever she writes.
One of the reasons I don't read the post anymore.
Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)3. If it had been me she wrote about, she would be right
1000words
(7,051 posts)4. Best thing to do regarding a gadfly columnist: Ignore them.
She knew it would push buttons. Troll hard, Andrea.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)5. Andrea Peyser is the absolute bottom of the barrel and a nasty piece of work
Her columns in general aren't even worthy of wiping one's ass with.
Hatchling
(2,323 posts)6. Oh, that poor kitty!
Somebody rescue it from her. It looks terrified.
B2G
(9,766 posts)7. Addicts don't 'choose'
They endure.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)8. Unhand that cat, you fiend!
BeyondGeography
(39,371 posts)9. Ignorant, mean-spirited swill
As per usual.
Initech
(100,068 posts)10. Compassionate conservativism: if we could care less, we would.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)11. Mean, stupid and dishonest.
Three things that almost always go together.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)12. she obviously hasn't learned..
some of life's harder lessons. Hopefully she will live a long, long time.