The only story here.....is that heron has made a magnificent comeback. A decade ago...folks would have said it was ‘done’ and no one would be interested in the stuff.
I’m from north Ala and you typically see five or six cop reports per month now on heron busts. Rural areas now regularly see the stuff.
I live in a very conservative county in Wisconsin and the sheriff, district attorney and the head of the county drug enforcement task force are all in favor of needle exchange programs. They have also supported supplying addicts with narcan and a state law that waives the Len Bias law for people who call 911 when someone OD’s.
Heroin is a monster of a drug and does a great job destroying lives. At least without HIV, an addict has some vain hope of getting clean.
I spent a couple weeks last summer working on a series about heroin addiction and all I can say is to never touch the stuff. It is life destroying.
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 was a growing problem in Delaware and Pennsylvania too, especially Philadelphia and northern Delaware. In Delaware, the per capita heroin use was pretty bad, epidemic in fact.