[SV_BubbleTime]

I’m not sure why it can’t be both.

Also, I’m not really sure that giving rats all the cocaine or heroin water they can drink is the same as a down on his luck homeless guy or a manager of a club or a good time college student… if you want to say it’s the cage, then you should probably theorize about how the deeper you get into drugs, typically the stronger the cage gets.

I like the idea that it’s not the addict’s fault for feel good reasons, but I’ve known enough addicts to know that the cage or the drug it isn’t kept at bay without hard work and discipline and the latter was typically already lacking to become an addict in the first place.

[daseiner1]

I've met many, many incredibly successful, intelligent, disciplined, kind, impressive people with incredibly serious addiction issues. 10s-100s of millions in net worth. These aren't lazy people.

Recovery does take an immense amount of hard work and discipline, albeit in a very different way than, say, reading legal briefs, writing code, performing surgery.