Well, I had six classmates die from heroin ODs before we were 2 years out of high school, my step sister has been using heroin off and on for decades, my best friend was killed in a car accident while ha and another friend were high on heroin. Through the years I have encountered more than a few heroin addicts professionally. At an early stage of my life I pretty routinely went to “ parties” where folks were injecting heroin in the bathroom and snorting coke in the kitchen.
I would not characterize my knowledge of addiction as naive. I would point out that ALL THAT HAPPENED WHILE DRUGS WERE ILLEGAL. So making and keeping drugs illegal is not the answer. It just creates more problems as typical libtard policies do.