Not sure if everyone's watched The Wire, and obviously if you haven't then you should as it's the single greatest piece of telly ever made, but Michael K. Williams who played stickup man Omar Little has sadly passed away. Initial reports indicate an overdose.

I'm conflicted with drug deaths. Obviously he was an outstanding actor. The best actor in the best show making him the best actor ever! Well that's open to discussion, but I have zero sympathy for drugs. I had a close family member die of drugs, so I have some experience here. My attitude is simply this. Take drugs, die.

Only in his early 50's. What an astonishing waste.

I'm conflicted with drug deaths. Obviously he was an outstanding actor. The best actor in the best show making him the best actor ever! Well that's open to discussion, but I have zero sympathy for drugs. I had a close family member die of drugs, so I have some experience here. My attitude is simply this. Take drugs, die.

Probably not the right thread (or forum) to be discussing issues like this, but I have to say that I vehemently disagree on that oversimplification. I'm not normally one of the woke-brigade, but that's such an outrageously privileged thing to say.
Sure, there's a lot of times where you get your rich upper-middle-class banker that thinks "gee, you know what, I fancy a bit of coke to spice things up" and spirals from there, and it's hard to feel a great deal of sympathy. But there's so many other circumstances where you look at reasons for turning to drugs. You can't just ignore rough upbringings, the need for escapism, the lack of awareness, lack of good examples and role models, socio-economic factors, peer pressure, systemic prejudices pushing people that way etc. that all play a part. Such a blase attitude really doesn't help anything