Would it change your perception bout people if you discovered them a former drug

i would be proud of them & hope they could stay in control of the problem. we've all made mistakes & if you learn from them u are on the right road.

Of course not! I appreciate people who once committed mistakes but are willing to change themselves for the better. I have a friend who is a smoke addict but he is trying his best to get away from it. Before, he can consume more than 20 sticks a day but as of to date, his average is 3 - 5 sticks. Of course, his smoking habit is not yet totally eliminated but he is trying his best to stop it slowly but surely. Starting abruptly from your addiction has bad effects on your emotional behavior so whenever you want to stop from your addiction do it slowly and not instantly. No one can change themselves overnight, they must do it patiently. When someone recover from addiction, we must not convict them as ex-con, rather, we must show appreciation to them on how they want to change their lives for the better. A society who does accept a change person in a nice way pushes them further to be back to their old self (being a criminal or an addict).

Absolutely not....but I wouldn't care for it if ppl changed how they saw me after finding out I'm an addict (no longer using though)...