What Black writer James Baldwin thought about drug addiction

What Black writer James Baldwin thought about drug addiction is described in his famous short story titled " Sonny's Blues ": " Sonny uses drugs as a means of escaping from an environment that is depressive, stressful and full of suffering. Baldwin restrains from judging Sonny because of his addiction problems because he wants to bring out the destructive effects of drug abuse and the role that the brain plays in the abuse of drugs. "