While I enjoy the concept that heroin might be in some way similar to nocotine beyond both of the substances being tangible psychoactive, it does frighten me that this is actually an opinion people legitimately have.

Given that when the supply chain of heroin is disrupted the most statistically significant cause of eratic behaviour in users is that it just hurts so much I suspect its a little different to nicotine.

If you are interested in understanding drivers of addiction I would recommend looking at cases where people are forced into withdrawals.

For example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395915...

Although I recall another article published ages ago (early 80s) which had an interesting economic analysis of the elasticity of heroin prices, to paraphrase, resulting from what is essentially inflicting pain on users until they will pay yur asking price.

I would love someone to draw the connections to nictonine withdrawals