> Poverty is the cause of drug addiction. Can you elaborate? On it's face this seems really counter intuitive to me. Drugs cost money. Not having money doesn

> Poverty is the cause of drug addiction. Can you elaborate? On it's face this seems really counter intuitive to me. Drugs cost money. Not having money doesn't somehow force you to use drugs. Where the opposite direction seems obvious: The cost of maintaining an addiction and the reduction in reliability from drug use can result in being unable to work, increasing your poverty.