“With every phenomenon, there is a distribution. Some areas will be more effected early than others. Just their bad luck. But it all evens out, over time.”
It’s not bad luck that one gets addicted to crack cocaine or gets addicted to heroin, it’s bad decisions. Furthermore, geographic and economic distributions of drug use does not even out as the crack epidemic of the 1980’s-1990’s primarily was contained within the black urban underclass.
As for time, time has demonstrated that while crack/addiction is down, the use and addition rates for opioids has increased.
You are conflating the broad trend with the individual failure.
My point was that this heroin problem is already in Texas, and you will catch up with Ohio, soon enough.
Experience suggests that heroin use effects a much wider swath of the population than crack cocaine. This problem is not confined to the cities.