This is kind of a dumb question.
In the 1960s opiates were easier to get than today and many young people died from heroin. I think it was considered cool, from all I’ve read about that era. A lot of music stars were addicted and many died. They began a huge anti heroin advertising and educational campaign. By the time I came of age, in a wealthy high school in Los Angeles, you could get any drug in the hallways EXCEPT heroin. In the 80s, all the drugs except heroin were thought to be “cool,” even crystal meth, but heroin was seen as a very low class, dangerous drug that no one wanted.
How did the country achieve the heroin hatred of the 1980s? I’m sure that decade probably had much less heroin addictions and deaths than now. Was it straight up supply and demand (since even the CIA was pushing cocaine that decade)? Was there anything to the campaign post 1960s to denigrate heroin?
They had a special assembly in high school (very unusual) and they showed us a black and white film about heroin addiction (which we knew nothing about). The withdrawal scene had a once pretty woman screaming and scratching her arms begging for a fix. Nothing that ugly was ever on TV or even in the movies.
We were stunned