mikey - " I was wold, quite tartly, that there was a difference between drugs addicts and recreational drug addicts.
Is that a typo? If so you have not pointed it out.
I do not believe that you do not know the difference between a recreational drug user and a drug addict.
As Ludwig has succinctly observed, the difference is manifest - everyone who smokes tobacco or drinks alcohol is a recreational drug user - although you appear from your stated position to believe that the demarcation is far more distinct. It seems you see recreational drug users - smokers and drinkers - as acceptable, and addicts as the very scum of the earth.
As I am sure you know, life is never that simple - there are extremes at both ends of the scale in any drug use, and it is not limited to consumers of illegal narcotics.
As for Peaches Geldof, her death from an overdose is a tragedy, and should not be lightly dismissed as you have done in your OP. The similarity of her death to that of her mother appears to imply some sort of genetic disposition to drug use, which is a patently flawed position to take. My father was an alcoholic, my mother is a smoker, I indulge in neither narcotic - so simplistic observations are not helping your case.
Ignorance of a subject is no sin - lauding ignorance as a virtue and using it to make sweeping and facile generalisations certainly is.
You are too bright for this pap - are you going to stop it now?