Quote from: superduperlemonscooper on January 03, 2013, 04:14 pmI have a philosophical question for you guys..Is there honor among junkies? Have you ever met a junkie who wasn't rich that you would trust with your life, your stash etc.Just seems to me like being a junkie is a lonely world with even less trust between junkies than with 'normal' people. I ask because I wonder if I'm the only poor druggie who has never stolen a thing from anyone ever in my life(aside from big stores, but not much and not for drugs) and would never betray anyone(even though it's happened to me so many times to the point I pretty much trust no one.It really does depend heavily on how you define junkie. But there are exceptions to every rule, and not everyone will behave the same way twice: people are not perfect creatures. To look at an individual in his/her entirety, and try to reduce an entire lifetime to "trustworthy or not," isn't going to work very well even with clean, sober, and well adjusted individuals. Trustworthy today? Trustworthy next year? I know you're just asking generally, but in the end the question isn't as well defined as it seems.It's a spectrum. As a general rule, junkies are less trustworthy because they care intensely for their drug -- it isn't some bizarre alien desire that drives drug addicts. It's exactly the same motivation that drives everybody (as you apparently know), but a junkie values their chemical of choice much more than a healthy person values almost any single thing in life. Unless integrity and honesty are as important -- or more important -- than their drug... of course they won't be trustworthy. But that can be said for anyone anywhere, if you substitute "drug" for whatever a person -- this one, that one, take your pick -- may fixate on to the detriment of other things. Infatuation, sex, money... it's all just a sliding scale of which is worth more to the person in question.It's the same situation for everybody, junkie or not.