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As every New York Times reader knows, Rent is a Pulitzer- and Tony-winning "rock opera" version of La Bohème , with a dramatis personae of HIV-positive performance artists, transsexuals, and drug addicts from the East Village, whose cachet was greatly enhanced by the death on the eve of opening of its young composer/lyricist/librettist Jonathan Larson.
Convenience gambling also addicts businesses.
If you watched the addiction series, for example, you heard little about other popular views of addiction, e.g., that addicts should be forced to take responsibility for their actions, not coddled into victimization.
Someone truly interested in understanding the causes might want to know how many of these children are raised in poverty, are born to drug addicts, or had fathers who never married or even lived with their mothers.
In fact, the true number was closer to 35,000, and a decade later, the government has yet to mount a meaningful program for the children of addicts.