[bigfatkitten]

> Typically, poverty. Also common, addiction.

The latter is often a result of the former. People self-medicating to escape misery.

[Aurornis]

Can happen, but being miserable is a not a prerequisite to wanting to get high.

I think it fits a narrative to explain addictions away as something that happens to someone as a victim of their circumstances, but personal choices are a real input.