I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.
“Person with addiction”
It’s too easy to become apathetic when human keeps getting take out of the descriptor. As a person can change so the descriptor isn’t their only identity. The ‘person’ will always remain while the association can change.
Additionally, we shouldn’t let doctors off the hook too easy to stop remembering they are humans with a problem and they are not ‘the problem’.
Addicts are people. They can be both. I don’t feel the need to point this out. It’s like how you don’t say “person who acts” when you can just say “actor”. Heck, you used the term “doctor” and not “person who heals”. Some people definitely try to ignore the human behind the term, but they do that with every term because they’re shit and don’t want to treat people with respect.