There is a lot of truth in this article. A young relation of my wife’s died of a heroin overdose. He had originally got addicted to Oxy pills, but when he couldn’t get those switched to heroin. At least with the pills, the dose is assured. With heroin, they never quite know for sure how much it’s been cut.
It’s a loss of the assurance and purpose of life that comes from God, which opens the door to such abuses.
In the older days, when it was still easy to get opiates at a pharmacy on request, to most people the usage of them outside of the context of physical pain would be viewed as a very unwanted visit from Satan.
Today such an experience is more like: “Cool! Satan!” Because the sense of God is so remote.
That is what is happening down here. These young kids do not know what they are buying and a lot of the heroin is very pure. Not like in the 60's and 70's where it was cut so much.
That is how we lost Janis Joplin.
A great lose in my opinion.