The increase in heroin use is directly attributable to Florida’s implementation of a prescription database which has cut the supply of oxycodone and like drugs. The price of those drugs on the street have climbed to the point where heroin becomes an economic choice. For demented junkies. Or demented junkie-wannabees.
It’s the same in Wisconsin. i’ve heard it from narcotics cops, district attorneys and AODA counselors. They all wish the supply of normal narcotics were available to keep people off heroin.
Around here, it’s related to the Meth explosion.
Eventually, meth just doesn’t “do it” enough for the heads, and they move on to mainlining heroin.
First, people ought to be able to walk into a drugstore and buy syringes without a prescription.
More to the point of druggies. We need government run homes, like dorms for example, where we have the drug users live. We give them all the drugs they want, supply them with basic necessities of food & medical care. And let them commit the suicide they are looking for, as slow or fast as they wish. No crimes need be committed to get drugs & no diseases need be passed to anyone. And these people are free to die in the manner they choose, at the rate they choose.
This will dramatically lower crime related to drugs and save society a boatload of money in the longer term.