As anything in real life, addiction is a fair bit more complicated than simply "I want to engage in this possibly illegal act that will continue to harm my body, my brain, in addition to placing more strain and stress on my loved ones and friends and depleting my finances, rendering me unable to sustain both a stable life and my addiction."
But, to address your gross ignorance, yes, involuntary addiction actually can happen - believe it or not. Case in point, I'm physically addicted to opioids but not because I wanted this to happen. My oncologist and myself couldn't understand at the time why I was having such severe bouts of pain associated with partial bowel obstruction, until some time well later after the fact when I, on my own accord, managed to link together the side effects of certain medications that were working in tandem to undermine my own bowel system. And I'd like to add that nobody in my care team, not my oncologist nor nurse practitioner nor case manager, were able to link these circumstances together to effectively prevent what could have been a totally preventable outcome. All they knew to do was throw more pain medication at the problem.
I didn't ask to be physically addicted to pain meds. I didn't ask to have to wear a fentanyl patch every day, or suffer debilitating withdrawals. But now I have to if I want to have a stable life while battling metastatic colon cancer and trying to prevent said pain medication from increasing any further all the while still dealing and living with chronic pain stemming from the main tumor in my lower sigmoid colon.
A 1 out of 1000 chance scenario. I have sympathy for people in certain scenarios but not all. Most people I know that got into drugs was from a party lifestyle. Or aka they just wanted to have some fun.
But this topic is about ODs unless someone fucked up whether it be your doctor or you. You should not be ODing on prescribed meds.
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Cid- "looks like that overgrown lobster just got served!" Bartz-"with cheese biscuts AND mashed potatoes!"