[Dane]

Addicts commonly use Oxycontin as a substitute for heroin, which is more difficult to obtain in rural areas than it is in cities. If maintenance doses of pharmaceutical grade heroin were available to addicts legally via prescription, Oxycontin abuse would naturally decrease. The incidence of sociopathic acts committed by addicts to maintain their addiction would decrease as well

Wrong. Oxycontin doesn't need to be injected. The needle is one reason most people will stay away from heroin.

[MrLeRoy]

Oxycontin doesn't need to be injected.

Neither does heroin.

[Lysander]

The needle is one reason most people will stay away from heroin.

Your stupidity is showing. Many people snort and smoke heroin. Also many people are "Chippers," using only occasionally. It is only slightly more addictive than nicotine or caffein.

[philman_36]

The needle is one reason most people will stay away from heroin.
Your hypocrisy is showing...isn't it your contention that there is a growing drug problem in America?
Yet here you are explaining just one reason why most folks stay away from heroin.
And don't you also contend that if all drugs are legalized it'll cause an increase in usage of drugs?
Will everybody just forget one of the reasons why they stayed away from heroin to begin with?