This is a wonderful ANECDOTAL story. I'm happy for her. However: Statistically it's unlikely to be common future - you can not generalize reality from specif

This is a wonderful ANECDOTAL story. I'm happy for her. However: Statistically it's unlikely to be common future - you can not generalize reality from specific cases from the tails of the distribution! If you categorized her before addiction, I'm sure you'd find the same qualities for success: IQ, grit, impulse control more generally (obviously some fail this when they become addicted but certain drugs often require such a fail only once), etc. So I'm glad she's a successful exception, but she still is an exception. Most people who don't even become addicted do NOT have the personality, genetics, socialization that could allow a similar success - she's multiply lucky just like most people who are successful combined with having been dealt a better than average hand by genetics and childhood.