Because we don't have the genetic ability to be one: https://thomasklinemd.medium.com/opioid-addiction-is-it-rare-or-not-abaa3722714 "A 1982 study of 145 burn treatment centers representing 20,000 burn patients found after prolonged parental (injections) opiate treatment only 22 people became addicted (1). In 2010, the Cochrane Collaborative (a highly regarded reviewing agency in the UK) reviewed 26 long term opiate use studies and concluded: “serious adverse events, including iatrogenic (caused by the treatment) opioid addiction, were rare”(2). A recent study at Loyola showed only one person addicted out of 1100 cases given postoperative opiates (3) A carefully designed epidemiological study studying occurrence rates of addiction was conducted by the respected epidemiologist Lee Robins at Washington University in 1977 She studied 700 soldiers returning from Vietnam on high dose, pure, I.V. heroin.(4) Expecting nearly 100% addiction, she was “surprised” to find t