"The next person I see with a heroin problem will probably be working class. They will probably have gone to the sort of school which is itself tragedy, and will have come from a family environment, such as a run-down council estate, which is a sink-hole. There’s a very strong relationship between depravation and drug use in many western cultures. It’s not the sole reason- you do get the rich and mega-privileged using drugs… You can’t go shouting from the rooftops that it’s all about depravation… a lot of it is… but there are other social factors, personal factors, genetic factors and economic factors - all mixed into the pot."
— Griffith Edwards, founder of the National Addiction Centre, on the role of addictions in human culture. (via curiositycounts)
