Heroin wins. Again.

Another celebrity is down.  Drugs.  Out of rehab and down.

Heroin.

Talent wasted.

It must be so very hard to break the cycle.  It must be next to impossible.  And that doesn't take away any of the tragedy in this, but the reality is, Hoffman made a decision and died because of it.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman decided he could handle heroin. He could not. And it killed him. His decision. His actions. His miscalculations killed him and took a wonderful talent away from us.

Regardless of how and where you stand on this matter, this actor died because of a very dangerous drug that is now in epidemic proportions in some areas of our country. It is not something to be played with, tried and toyed with. Heroin is a killer. It grips you and tightens its grip around your life until there is no life.

OD. Too much sauce. Popped a vein. Be as smug as you wish.  Hoffman died because he lost the fight with heroin. And his loss is all of ours, too. And that is what is so damn sad in this. We will never get a chance to see that talent work its magic on the screen again.

All because heroin won.

But never forget...Hoffman decided to play the game. It was his call.  His fault.