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Philip Seymour Hoffman Addiction - Was It An Illness Or A Choice?

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"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 other 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."

Peyser seemed to be buying none of this."* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.

*Read more here from Catherine Taibi / The Huffington Post:


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