There’s a reason Keith Richards gave up heroin. It’s because the quality began to stink and it probably still does. I have little sympathy for addicts and don’t feel it’s a disease but I’ve always been blessed with very good will power except when it comes to a fine beer. The current problem lies with the drug companies and the government that enabled the situation to begin with.
Heroin & fentanyl addiction is out of control and the quality & strength is greater than ever. Thanks to virtual open borders and the explosion in the prescribing of hard core pain pills causing alot of everyday people getting ‘hooked’on opiates, we are on the verge of a disaster. Lots of these people are former military, middle class educated workers and even housewives. They go in for pain management or surgery and are given loads of Vicodin or Percocet and become hooked.
I know several people myself who have become addicted to pain pills. Some ‘graduated’ to heroin. More than a few of them are dead. They all left behind young children and devestated families. These are not poor people trapped in the ghetto. These are people who had jobs, made good money, many six figure incomes, and most lived in high end suburbs.
This is a real crisis and the relief STARTS with a closed border. Followed by reduced prescriptions of these opiates.