Someone needs to go into these places and find out what turns people to drugs.
I'm 30 going on 31 and I've never any sort of illegal drugs in my lifetime and I've never had the urge to. What's the difference between the life I've lived and those that turn to drugs?
You get in a car accident, doc prescribes you some Oxycodone, you take it for a month just so you can sleep. After a month, you still have pain, you get a re-up. Two months, no more reups. You start taking tylenol 4-5 at a time, still not working. Go to your GP who gets you on T3s, still not working, you try and get some more Oxy through craigslist or a friend or whatever. That's fine now. A year goes by and 4 pills a day isn't enough, because you're building tolerance constantly.
A lot of people fall into it because they're put on these drugs and literally can't function w/o them for the pain, and the recovery time is long enough to build a dependence.