Are There Any Direct Parallels Between Fire Moss and Opium?

In the united states, we've been having a large issue over the past couple of years with opium and opioid overdoses. I wonder if that was impactinga a story of addiction but the way that bran portrays this early on is about teft wanting to be a good squire,. He sells his bridge for a uniform, so tha he can get a little bit more money, a, to buy fire moss. His friends, calidan specifically, find him in an alley way. And the scene that we get at end of the book is him becoming a full night's radiant on his own. But i also, and i don't know, io haven't asked brandon, you know