Everybody has their own drugs, they are just named different things, coffee, chocolate, pizza, eating etc.
Most people start drugs- just for fun and kicks, an reaction to emotional stress, or accident (left with pain) and they become addicted to their drugs...
Doesn't matter how they started, they need help. Some addicts hit rock bottom losing friends, family etc. before they turn themselves around and some just end up dead on the street.
European countries are seeing drug addicts as they have a disease and some countries treat it as such.
Its so easy to say "sweep up the addicts and put them away" or "send to prison" or "let them die by overdosing". Have to admit it I think that way sometimes. But why? Its the quick and easy solution that won't in the long term solve any of the underlying issues people have with drugs or the issues why people take drugs.
We live in a toxic society. Emotional. Financial. Environmental. We are also living in the time of the quick fix solutions to all problems... They don't seem to work those solutions.....
Maybe it all started with the fairy tales of youth.... "and they lived happily ever after"..
But sometimes you just have to have a little "faith" in mankind.....