That is absolutely not the only cause of addiction. Plenty of heroin addicts started off with opiates for a legitimate reason.
Most drugs with a high addictive potential are that way because they’re physically addictive, meaning you experience bad physical symptoms when quitting. Many people don’t quit because those symptoms are so horrendous (and some can literally kill you)
Also, there’s a shocking number of addicts who are only addicts because their parents drugged them as children because they didn’t want to get high alone. (My SO did youth addiction counseling).
Poverty isn’t a cause of addiction, but addiction can easily be the cause of poverty.
That is absolutely not the only cause of addiction. Plenty of heroin addicts started off with opiates for a legitimate reason.
Most drugs with a high addictive potential are that way because they’re physically addictive, meaning you experience bad physical symptoms when quitting. Many people don’t quit because those symptoms are so horrendous (and some can literally kill you)
Also, there’s a shocking number of addicts who are only addicts because their parents drugged them as children because they didn’t want to get high alone. (My SO did youth addiction counseling).
Poverty isn’t a cause of addiction, but addiction can easily be the cause of poverty.