The real issue isn't the drugs -- it's mental health. Most drug users who become addicts started using drugs to cope and escape from problems they have in life:

The real issue isn't the drugs -- it's mental health. Most drug users who become addicts started using drugs to cope and escape from problems they have in life: depression, anxiety, bipolar, PTSD, etc. If we started treating the real source of the problem -- mental health -- then there would be far less appeal for these types of people to turn to drugs to begin with.