But what is the situation that got them to their drugged out life? I'd suggest you're seeing the end point of a lot of systems failures along the way. Like one

But what is the situation that got them to their drugged out life? I'd suggest you're seeing the end point of a lot of systems failures along the way. Like one possible scenario - kids have some mental health issues in their teens, but because their parents aren't at home because they're working 2 jobs to live and medical treatment is unaffordable they dont get treatment. So they self medicate, and they drop out of school, then they live on the streets, then they're so drugged out they dont know any other life and they say they're happy living on the streets, because they really dont know any better. Children who aren't raised become animals - e.g. the children raised by wolves of English history fame. Then of course these children grow up and have children of their own, which are just totally animal. I'd suggest you're seeing the end results of 50 years of systems failures. recovery from this is expensive.