Reading this thread I am struck by how much anger and contempt and lack of compassion there is for this woman. Addiction is multi-faceted and whatever drove her to use drugs in the first place obviously had a much stronger hold on her than was apparent to her treating physicians. I don't know her - or much about her circumstances - but the one thing I have realised in the last few years is that we are all damaged in some way and a society that lacks compassion is one headed for spiritual extinction. Debate the merits of the use of tax-payers funding for something that was not medically warranted by all means but leave her family to grieve in peace please. Let's hope her kids don't take the same path of their mother in due course ...