"What's that, my dear? You could show us the way? Why, I never thought of that!"

Roy Harper’s addiction does not originate in the Teen Titans, and it is not caused or shaped by the Fab Five’s treatment of him.

Roy’s heroin addiction is introduced in Snowbirds Dont Fly (A GREEN LANTERN/GREEN ARROW COMIC!!!!). At that point:

Roy is no longer an active Titan (Teen Titans was in hiatus at the time of its publishing)

He is living largely on his own

The people most directly implicated are Oliver Queen, Hal, and Dinah not any of the Titans

The story explicitly frames Roy’s addiction as the result of isolation, instability, trauma, and feelings of abandonment, not because his friends failed to support him “correctly.”

When the Titans later learn about Roy’s addiction (when the team gets back together in the 1976 revival) their response is not rejection or cruelty. He is welcomed back, treated with compassion, and not framed as a burden or moral failure. The Fab Five are not positioned as emotional antagonists in his life. THEY ARE FAMILY!! They work things out together!! and support each other, sure they'll fight they get into arguments but they care about each other.

At no point in original continuity are the Titans meant to symbolize people who “don’t know how to support an addict.” That interpretation is wrong, innacurate and imposed by fandom, not something the original 70s, 80s and 90s comics support. Outside retcons in 2010

The idea that the Titans had to be imperfect or harmful to be “realistic” also misses the point. Roy’s addiction arc was never about his peers failing him. It was about:

The long term effects of abandonment

The consequences of adult failure

Roy’s own internal struggle

You don’t need to turn the Titans into a cautionary tale about bad friendship to make Roy’s story meaningful. Doing so actually flattens his arc and shifts blame away from where the narrative intentionally placed it.

You don’t have to like the Titans.

But turning the Fab Five into bad friends and "responsible for Roys addiction" is innacurate THEY ARE A FAMILY!

Anyway I have a Titans reading order on my page you should check it out

WOLVERINE IS LIKE THAT COOL OLDER BROTHER ALSO I LOVE HOW HE CALLS KITTY PUNKIN LIKE HELLO THATS SO CUTE SHES LIKE HIS LITTLE SISTER

Wolverine is so big brother coded