Comment by mnm1

Addiction isn't caused by heroin or oxy or any other drug by itself. It's caused by people having hard, unfulfilled lives in a society that doesn't care about and actively tries to hurt them. A society that doesn't care, that doesn't provide purpose, jobs, homes, food, friends, relationships, nature, or any kind of help. Fulfilled people with good lives who aren't in constant pain don't get addicted. They might be dependent for awhile while the pain from their surgery goes away but then they'll go back to their lives. People who have no lives on the other hand will get addicted. If it's not heroin, it's oxy. If but oxy meth. Or coke. Or even weed. Too bad we as people and as a society still don't understand this and pretend like heroin is some magic substance that everyone gets addicted to. Most users do not get addicted. Usually around 90%. You never hear about them. You also never hear about the addicts shooting up legal heroin for decades who don't overdose, don't get sick, and have normal lives. Only the stupid drug war mantras live now despite us knowing better from real experience with helping addicts and not making them into criminals. Experiments have been happening all over the world for decades but the drug warriors are the only ones that get the press. It's sad that so many people's lives have to be ruined by their insanity. One day we'll look back and wonder how we could have been so cruel and so stupid with all the solutions already known to us.