Oh I seriously doubt it. What a mindless sentence.I'm not a rocket scientist, but I tend to think, in many of these cases, it was a "lack of discipline by the parents early in the childrens youth " that allows this type behavior to develop.
I don't doubt that well disciplined children are less likely to grow up to use heroin. However, assuming that heroin use in MA has 'skyrocketed' recently (as sources in the article state), that seems unlikely to have been caused by a skyrocketing of bad parenting ~18 years ago.