It can bring miraculous surcease from suffering through the pain-relieving alkaloids within, but those same alkaloids can also bring addiction, oblivion, and death.
By letting others off the hook, including the suffering scions, the more realistic onus of shared culpability is glossed over, so the supposed solution or surcease is unreal and ineffective.
As report after report indicates, he attacks, lashes out, mocks, tweets, pummels, charges and complains, showering calumny on others even as he praises his achievements without surcease.