If the geography were South Central Los Angeles and Harlem instead of North Dakota and Kentucky, the solution would be the same as it was for the Crack Epidemic: Mandatory Minimums and body bags.
It’s not just North Dakota and Kentucky. It’s happening in tony suburbs, too.
15+ years after we went to Afghanistan for what should have been at most an 18 month punitive expedition, we have an opiod epidemic very much helped along by poppies grown where? You guessed it!
Why are we still there?