In my experience people get addicted to drugs because they have underlying chronic depression and/or severe ADD, Bipolar disorder, BPD, etc. If you treat the di

In my experience people get addicted to drugs because they have underlying chronic depression and/or severe ADD, Bipolar disorder, BPD, etc. If you treat the disorder the drug use slows dramatically. Also, lack of social support structures and economic opportunity. All of these things are huge unaddressed problems in the US and increasingly so, and the opioid epidemic is a symptom of this in my opinion.