Your Nation's worst Drug problem(s)

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National center for health, to CDC show that
Prescription Drug deaths have risen every year since Y2K.
Pills from street to pharmaceutical has been an issue in the states for decades.
Crack use in America peaked early 1980-1995 with incarceration as the best resolution.


Now Heroine has risen in Small towns to suburbs. Politicians are requesting tax payer dollars to fund rehabilitation, not incarceration.

Except
Acording to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, heroin users skyrocketed from about 373,000 in 2007 to 669,000 in 2012, and the number of those with heroin "dependence or abuse" more than doubled from 2002 to 2012, jumping from about 214,000 to 467,000. A recent report commissioned by the Office of National Drug Control Policy and prepared by the Rand Corp. says that in 2010 there were closer to 1.5 million "chronic heroin users" in the U.S.

Is there drug use, overdose or death rampant in your city, state, country?
Has your position changed on dealing with illicit drug use?