I’d also suggest that a lot of the angst about heroin these days only exists because many of the overdose cases involve affluent white teens.
I blame the drug issue in America on two sides, politicians and the mafia. But then, I guess that boils down to just one side if you consider they are one in the same....
Was it not the mafia that brought drugs to America some many years ago?
However, the use of heroin is reaching epidemic proportions in many places on the east coast.... especially here on Long Island..... it crosses socioeconomic classes.... there isn't a week that goes by that we don't hear in our Church of another teenager or young adult dying from its’ use.
Last Friday my young daughter graduated from a 15 month drug and alcohol program called Teen Challenge... at the same time a friend of mine attending received a call that his 23 year old nephew was found dead from a heroin overdose.
My daughter is one of the lucky ones... a year and a half ago I sat at her bedside while she laid blind and paralyzed.... and was expected not to live... due to a heroin overdose.....
In the end we are responsible for our own choices... but the availability and dirt cheap cost of this drug only makes it more enticing to potential users....
Something needs to be done..... it is a growing problem....