Supposedly there are factors that can determine if someone is more likely to become addicted to drugs. People who are overworked or overstressed are much more likely to become addicted to prescription drugs. So are poverty and depression. Pain pills are so widely abused because they are cheap, readily available and produce a feeling of self-worth. Luckily, these abusers can achieve sobriety if they just enroll in prescription drug rehab and begin to detox.