My current struggle: drug addiction.

No, not with me, but how to unpack why it is "bad". I'm trying to model its impact on a city. Here in San Francisco it's a huge issue.

Community impacts:
Society's degredation?
Government cost?
Economic overhead?

Personal:
Lowered potential in career, relationships and personal goals?
Increase in depression?
General unhappiness?

Thoughts?

@jurban I saw a talk about a man who was rethinking addiction. He took the normal experiment of giving the rats clean water and drugged water and turned it on its head by also giving the rats everything else they would need to be happy, as well. Tunnels to run in and toys to play with and food. Turned out the rats left the drugged water 100% alone when all the other needs were filled. I think there's a real lesson in there for us.

@FreyaMeansLady
Fascinating!
I think there is something about "satisfaction" in that experiment.