Seems like a self licking ice cream cone. Eventually you run out of drug victims.
It certainly seems like TPTB have washed their hands of the addiction problem, hoping that “survival of the fittest” will resolve it for everyone. I’m not sure I can object to that idea, considering the incredibly small number of addicts who actually get clean and stay clean with voluntary or involuntary treatment. The expression, “They shoot horses, don’t they?” keeps coming to the forefront of my mind.