re: Serious business: The opioid epidemic - it's on the rise in the United States

Go to school in Plano, I always heard about the epidemic that hit us in the 90s. Now it's back, I guess, and stronger than ever.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/teenage-wasteland/

There were 9 teenage overdoses and fifteen overall in two years. It was a big deal, for a city of 200,000. I have a good buddy that was out in L.A. and got in to some bad crowds and ended up in rehab for heroin. Every time I see him, he still talks about how much he misses it every time he thinks about it, which is every single day. Supposedly the dopamine levels produced from heroin are 10-20 greater than anything else we can do. It's so overwhelming for people that the reward system of their brain is completely broken the first time they shoot up.