But some good art can come out of it, just as it can come out of mania or even schizophrenia. It doesn't have much allure at that point. As I point out, no one would use it beyond a certain stage if it weren't addictive. It would be like playing basketball on a kids' court or riding a tricycle. Not at all.
Many people have much worse childhoods and never take drugs.
The operant metaphors of my childhood like my dad's illness and the family relationship to medicine subliminally were connected with my later drug use, but they are neither necessary nor sufficient to explain it. Certainly I bear the responsibility, not my parents. You write a lot about the relationship between money, capitalism and heroin use. But surely people used narcotics in traditional, pre-capitalist societies. They used them more once elements of a market economy arose - witness China and opium.