How Are Drug Addicts Functional to Our Society?

Question by Lauren: How are drug addicts functional to our society?
Regarding the sociological theory of functionalism, I am trying to come up with ideas/reasons of why drug addicts or those which abuse drugs are functional to our society.

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Answer by ghostofasoul
they help the government stay in power. with money in many ways.

Answer by Sabretooth
They really form thier own society, what I refer to as ressesioniosts.

They go the *other way*.

Although such people often claim to be rebelius, they are really conforming to thier own system to which they form gangs of.
If they disobey this, they will get boo-ed, mocked and even attacked by thier peers.

They have no function to the rest of us.