There’s a hippie fair thing every year, and last year there were two heroin ODs, actually another one later that summer. Maybe more. I hear dispatch 24/7 so I hear what goes on in our rural valley, as far as first responders (FF and paramedic), don’t hear cops but there’s barely any LE anyway out here.
You sure hear a lot of noise about heroin. In the 60s it was the ‘last drug’ in the cycle of drug abuse. If you did heroin it was ‘end of the line’ type connotation, opium dens, junkie, etc. I personally didn’t know anyone who used heroin until much later. . now it seems to be a national epidemic.