After - how many deaths? River Phoenix, Kristen Pfaff, Shannon Hoon, Bradley Nowell, Jonathan Melvoin… the list seems endless - it finally went out of style. Then it was ecstasy. Then crystal meth came into fashion. After that, it seemed to be pills. And now it has circled back to heroin again and already claimed a celebrity (Philip Seymour Hoffman). This article makes it sound like the whole of suburbia just discovered heroin and that's just not true.
Thank you, you are absolutely correct. I remember all you wrote about except some of the names you mentioned required Googling to remember who they were.
They are talking in my locale about making the prescription drug Narcan over the counter even if it requires our doctor who’s in charge of the Health Department to take signed prescription sheets for Narcan to every single pharmacy in my county. Might be a worthwhile band-aid.
You make good points. Drugs ebb and flow. Right now downtown Everett is blessed with both heroin and meth. People steal anything not nailed down, there’s an epidemic of food stamp fraud tied in with drugs and every third or fourth building downtown is vacant. That isn’t all because of drugs, but drugs don’t help.
You’re right. I used to live a few blocks from where Layne Staley died, in a scenario pretty much identical to Philip Seymour Hoffman. The block containing the Jack in the Box where Kurt Cobain was rumored to have scored his heroin has been razed to build a light rail tunnel.