Drugs can create fast and much stronger addiction, but I can't say I see it actually happening much. Neither there are statisics suggesting that it happens at s

Drugs can create fast and much stronger addiction, but I can't say I see it actually happening much. Neither there are statisics suggesting that it happens at scale. Of course, some addicts presumably exist, but not enough to convert the problem from political one to social one (in observable Russia at least). It still seems the main reason for war on drugs is mining government money and political leverage.