I worked in a big city ER for years.I've seen more drug addicts...more drug ODs...than you've had hot meals.I don't know much about much but I *do* know drugs and drug *addicts*.
Maybe that is where you get your slanted opinion. You saw people who you viewed as lesser than you coming to you for help. These were people you felt comfortable looking down on and judging.
Perhaps if you saw more of your neighbors burying their 20 year old college student children or your otherwise honorable family members slowly crumble into addiction you wouldn't think that it was merely a "morals problem".
Out here in the midwest it is an epidemic and I feel terribly sorry for my neighbors and friends who have family members struggling with this.
Sorry if I am coming across as pissed but I was originally conflating your argument with the guy above you who was actually hoping for more addicts to die.