You are way out of my ideology. Suffice it to say I have empathy, sympathy and pragmatism.
How many reasons are so many Americans turned to narcotics, legal or illegal?
I wrote one singular reason in my post, of course there are a number of those others who were addicted by physical injuries or disease such as Cancer.
Consider legal drugs, such as tobacco, coffee, alcohol and marijuana, all legal and the first three are addictive, only Marijuana is not physically addictive and yet it is put on schedule I.
See:
Drug Scheduling