Heroin on prescription

Should we not concentrate on sorting out drugs/treatments for cancer, diabetes and the like.

I understand these people need help but it was a choice (althouugh somewhat helped by x,y & z)unlike cancer etc.

*not meaning to come across all daily mail etc.

The association of drug addiction and choice isn't really reasonable. It isn't as if all the heroin addicts in the country woke up one day in their otherwise successful and enjoyable lives and decided that they would go and get hooked on a drug that would make them socially non-functional and then expect someone to sort everything out for them. I won't deny that there is a segment of addicts who have arrived at their position simply through well informed pursuit of recreational drugs but they are generally a minority. For everyone else, their perception of choices are far different to yours. A lot of people come from circumstances where heroin is perceived as the best choice at the time.