More Heroin Deaths in USA Than Gun Homicide Deaths

[vidgil]

Very scary and very sad.

I still don't understand why anyone would bother to get into that junk, given that we've had so many decades to see the devastation that heroin brings.

[Master]

Many reasons why people take drugs and end up devoting their lives to it. Sad but hasn't this been always the case in the history of mankind with substance misuse.

[walrus]

It is sad in many ways. The families and lives ruined, the violence and prison sentence but some miss another point. We have people here who truly need opioids for chronic pain including cancer and such. Laws are being passed that is making it difficult for chronic pain patients to receive opioids for treatment. The FDA makes drug makers alter how the meds are made but cancer patients say they don't get as much relief.