I'm only a few episodes into Elementary, but it's just not catching me. I like Joan Watson, but I feel like she could be doing better and more interesting things with her life. I'd kinda rather watch the Joan Watson Detective Agency. I'm with you on not being very into drug addiction/recovery as a plotline, but I think my biggest issue so far is with Sherlock Holmes being portrayed as 'acts like a jerk to people all the time', which does feel borrowed from Sherlock, and not very accurate to ACD.

...idk, I may end up hanging around long enough to see how they handle Mycroft, maybe he'll be better than Sherlock is?

It's strange, I kept hearing such good things about Elementary.