Most people who get addicted weren't having a great, happy, and stress-free life. If you don't want people addicted to drugs, you have to address the root causes that drive them to it. To ignore those and then punish them for having an unhealthy response to an unhealthy situation is just cruel.

I had a bit of a cocaine addiction for a couple years and I can tell you that when you first start out on an addictive drug like that, you think to yourself "wow, this isn't nearly as big a deal as people make it out to be." And then after a while as it dawns on you that you're addicted, you tell yourself "well sure, it destroys some people's lives, but I can keep it under control." And maybe you can, for a while. Some of the people I know who "have it under control" are deteriorating before my eyes.

I personally know multiple heroin addicts who got clean. I get what you're saying because opioids in general are some of the most perniciously difficult drugs to break away from, especially when the withdrawals can literally kill you, but it's very important to spread the message that it's possible. I would never want a heroin addict to hear people saying that it's impossible to quit and thus feel like they might as well not bother trying.