How many dealers, I wonder are themselves addicted?
I think ultimately we have to hold the users responsible.
Heroin users almost always start as people who are over-Rx’d opioids for a legit illness or injury and get hooked. Heroin is super cheap and satisfies the craving.
If we start sentencing dealers to death, fewer people will sell it for a living, the supply will dwindle and the economics of subbing heroin for Oxy will dwindle.
Good question. I have a 30 year old nephew in rust belt Ohio. He is a meth addict but he appears to fund himself through the manufacture and sale of the drug. Sad to say that despite the success of Trump's jobs agenda, employment and hope will not come to these areas as there are few who could pass drug screening.
After having worked for many years in a big city ER I couldn't care less.Pass a Federal law that makes the DP mandatory (first offense) for dealers as well as 1 to 15 years in prison for users.Then you catch a user and offer him a deal..."give us your dealer and you get a year.Refuse and you get fifteen".
Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how such a policy would affect suppliers.