[Karunamon]

Slight issue: I don’t think opioid addicts want to be addicts. When an externally introduced chemical is hijacking your neurochemistry and making you feel some of the worst pain imaginable when it’s not there anymore, wanting the pain to stop is the most natural desire - it just happens that more of the chemical is the fastest way to do so.

There’s also the fact that it’s objectively destructive, simultaneously to society, personal relationships, and the addict. No need to even invoke philosophical good and evil there.

And I say this as a religious person myself.