re: The Crack Epidemic vs The Opioid Epidemic

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Heroin use started going up around the mid 2000s, maybe earlier. People were put on pain meds, they would eat a month worth of prescription in a week. They could either by pills on the street for $60 a pill or get heroin much cheaper.

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More and more people were smoking weed, they were cracking down on mdma and all of a sudden, heroin became popular again. It was out of nowhere.

I took oxy once, made me throw up everywhere. But I had friends dying, others dropping out of LSU, going to rehab. It was all over the opioid craze that hit.

Had no idea people were getting to the point of shooting up.