There's a lot hanging on that word "eventually." The road to recovery is long, very hard and brutally expensive as anyone who has begun recovery or been involved with addicted people knows. Sobriety is not an easy path--don't minimize the journey with glib statements.
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1482387156459008003
The story itself cited 95k deaths per year from alcohol, 100k from drug overdoses,but says it's a fraction of the number of alcoholics and drug addicts. Yet that's like saying the folks dead from COVID are a fraction of the cases. It's true, but doesn't address the complexities.
The cost of becoming sober is monumental, which is why so many people in prison are in there for drug-related offenses. This is particularly true for women, as my recent 3-part series on women in prison explicated. The system for recovery is more available to people with money.
Everyone who has ever been addicted or loved an alcoholic or drug addict wants recovery for everyone, but we are not making that happen in the US. Drugs and alcohol are available everywhere and a slippery slope while recovery is mostly a brass ring just out of reach for many.
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