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“Of all the addicts now, how many can say they were coerced into taking drugs?”

I think it’s more a matter of easy access. People don’t realize that “heroin” these days comes in a pill form ... and its cheap.

Back in the 80s-90s, when I was a kid, I only saw marijuana and the occasional cocaine or acid user here and there. I was never into any of that garbage (well, beer and the occasional weed hit). Anecdotal, yes, but the town I grew up in was basically a drug free zone compared to today.

I never saw heroin, and of my friends from back then that continued to use drugs, only two come to mind that found heroin later in life (one beat it, the other hasn’t ... and it is frigging sad). Most of us simply weren’t too into anything dealing with drugs and booze after hitting 18. Life was a lot more interesting than that garbage.
Moreover, while weed was cheap, coke wasn’t ... and I don’t think the other illicit drugs were exactly cheap.

These days, according to my stepson anyway, it is a piece of cake to get all sorts of pills for next to nothing. Doesn’t matter how poor or rich your neighborhood is ... there are drugs everywhere.

Today, there’s simply a higher probability that someone, regardless of their intelligence or how they were raised, makes a ridiculously stupid decision in a social situation that leads to a life of torture due to the abundance of these drugs. They are literally everywhere. The drugs are so damn cheap that you might have your drinks spiked with the crap and not even know it!

The drug problem in this country is more on the illegal supply side. There’s far too much out there. I won’t discount doctors being pill pushers, but fighting them right now is not the right battle. The scum that deal this crap should be dealt with ... I’d even advocate the death penalty for those that get caught dealing more than twice. Drugs like meth and heroin destroy entire communities these days.