More on addicts

I suppose I'm naive, but I was shocked by Katie Granju's story-an installment-of her son's treatment at a children's hospital.  She's compulsively writing as a way to cope with her grief at the loss of her 18 year old son.  I understand this impulse.  So many aspects of her son Henry's story highlight aspects of society that need a great deal of work.  (off the top of my head: our ideas about addiction and addicts, the way addiction is handled by the medical community, how families of addicts are treated.)