I sincerely doubt a connection with weed being a gateway drug to heroin. Also. at this point I doubt the connection between prescription drugs and heroin. What I think it is ,is a addictive personality with no long range life goals and they drift into heroin addiction. I think we should stop the Narcan nonsense. The only way addicts will stop is if they see another addict die in front of them. In my state, they are pushing safe injection sites and initiatives to stop them have been started.The government is fighting this by saying this is a public health issue, and initiatives do not cover problems pertaining to public health. All these safe injection sites will do is encourage more addiction. If they want to be a heroin addict,then they should accept death may be the result. It would sure bring down healthcare costs.
Watching others die does not change the addicts view point