Heroin deaths are like suicide, self administered and voluntary.I feel bad that a kid takes that first bite but after the third one he is no longer a functioning human being. and no longer has my sympathy. Same for meth or crack.
The truth of what you say is hard to face, but I wish my niece could/would read your words.
She got into meth ffs, it's horrible.
She knows I love her but don't even think of asking uncle for a loan, not even $5 right now while she's like this.
A lot of these overdoses aren't kids taking their first bite but rather adults who have become addicted to prescribed opiates that were then cut off. There's a reason heroin deaths are skyrocketing right now and it isn't all because of kids.
But it's much easier to jump on the sanctimonious bandwagon of "all drug addicts are scum that deserve to die" than to actually investigate the issue.