Very good point... most heroin ad,dicts have emotional and mental issues... escaping reality, to some degree is something they they do pursue... “self-medicating” knowingly or unknowingly.
Many cannot kick the habit, even after long rehabs, until they address the underlying issues driving the desire.
My daughter appears to be one of the furtunate ones... she almost died... but now seems to be moving forward in her recovery. She had an extremely poor self image... which led to many unheaathy choices and victimizations... but only through God’s grace, and I really mean that, has she crawled out of the hole that she was trapped in.
Praise God your daughter made it - my daughter almost dies several times and had similar issues...today she is a successful RN and mother of 3 beautiful children.