[MrEdd]

220 deaths?
It’s a self correcting problem.

[BraveMan]

Not necessarily.

Only a small percentage actually die. The majority become ‘successful’ in their addiction and all that entails; burglary, robbery, dependency on government/society, the list goes on and on.

[When do we get liberated?]

You have no idea what you are talking about. Heroin doesnt care what family, church, race or creed you come from and it wastes everyone it touches. Alcohol, cocaine, etc are not heroin. Take the most brilliant, best mannered, most educated person with a back back who tries it once. 6 months from now they are breaking into cars to steal things and, on average, they are dead in 10 years. By then they will have committed hundreds of crimes and in all probability will spread STD and misery.
Also keep in mind the difference between oxy and heroin is simply one of purity and concentration. Rush Limbaugh took up to 25 oxy a day. That is the same as shooting heroin. Rush isnt perfect, but I dont wish death upon him.

[ConservingFreedom]

The problem would self-correct at least as rapidly if we ceased to enrich heroin dealers by driving up the profit margin on their product through criminalization.