I'm sorry if you think using the word virtue means lacking compassion or just feeling better than others. I'm using the word correctly here.

Virtue is defined by Merriam-Webster as "conformity to a standard of right". So rather than promoting that conformity, a pharmaceutical intervention is a shortcut bypassing that conformity to the right way of dealing with this.

The best defense against a vice is more virtue. Though perhaps more accurate to say virtues plural. Virtues encompassing hard work, faith and discipline.