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There are two reasons why people give up heroin. One is death. The other is to avoid death.

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.

The pain pill excuse has been debunked. While it added to addiction early on, the DEA has aggressively gone after doctors and pain pill mills for some time. The price on the street for a singly oxy has skyrocketed as a result. The crack down on pain pills has led to the demand for the cheaper heroin mix alternatives.

Todays scene is driven almost completely by the drug culture, teenagers (who begin with marijuana) and young adults who have no physical injuries.
I'd guess 80% of the ODs in WV now occur in this group. Sure there is always the story of the injured miner, hooked on Percocet now using heroin but the EMTs are seeing younger addicts on their repeat runs.

Because of the money to be made at all levels, the drug culture is booming in America and ODs will soon triple after more than doubling this year. Narcan is the latest miracle to keep the culture on its exponential growth. Addicts do not fear death. They want the cheapest high. If someone ODs because of a particular cut, the dealer sees an increase in demand because the other addicts want that super high.

When a client goes into treatment, their insurance or source of funds is spreadsheeted to maximize payments for inpatient detox, then outpatient sober home living and counseling, to max out profit to the recovery industry. Then a relapse is planned to repeat that process. One addict can be milked for alot of money for several cycles of recovery particularly since the government pays though Obamacare. The cool thing about Narcan is you no longer have involuntary dropouts.

Marijuana edibles for preteens is all the rage now to begin the process to addiction even sooner.

Both obesity and drug addiction are the driving force in over half the American population. This will skyrocket as legalization and treatment expands.