This is terrifying to me as the father of teens here in NJ; this stuff is truly everywhere. Even if we can keep our kids clean, the crime that accompanies drug addiction (thefts and murders) may still take a toll.
I learned recently I have a cousin in rehab for heroin. Upper middle class white suburban upbringing. Graduated from a good college. Parents are together; mom is a schoolteacher and dad is a defense contractor. Churchgoing conservatives.
It wasn't street hoodlums that turned him into a drug addict. It was opiates prescribed by a doctor to treat an injury he received playing sports in high school.
There's something going wrong here.