Lose lose situation

"The Pusher always gets it all back. The addict needs more and more junk to maintain a human form...buy off the Monkey. Junk is the mold of monopoly and possession. The addict stands by while his junk legs carry him straight in on the junk beam to relapse...The more junk you use the less you have and the more you have the more you use...You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite." (page201) This passage is very significant to the whole book, on the imagery that drugs consume and take over people's lives. By the end of the book the reader realizes a lot about drugs and why people do them. if you were to sit naked at lunch time with family and friends then you are to show them everything about you, this is something people cannot do. To be venerable is to be weak and to feel weak is to have no purpose in life. Even such a thing as doing drugs gives someone a purpose, to get up and go out. To see another day but only for drugs. What do you make of the comparison of the rabid dog to a junkie? Having no choice because their bodies relied on it or at least in their mentality the needed it to survive.