Too much of a good thing?

In the Telegraph on Sunday there was a piece headlined “Heroin, crack and Prada shoes”. I was surprised. I had thought that the Tory Party conference wasn't due to start until October! Reading on I discovered that I had been mistaken. It was instead a heart-rending exploration of the problems experienced by rich drug addicts. These tortured souls are much worse off than than their counterparts on the country's inner city estates, the article explained. Apparently this is because the poor either run out of money or get put in prison before they die. The rich are doomed to snort, smoke and inject themselves into oblivion without once benefiting from the advantages of a spell sleeping in somebody's doorway to get them back on the straight and narrow. How gratifying to see the liberal media for once acknowledging the problems of being rich!