A front-page Washington Post article about a 16-year old’s heroin overdose caught my attention recently as I read through papers I had missed. The story is becoming all-too common throughout the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore, MD-Annapolis, MD triangle, where I live. As I read the article, I felt for a moment that I was back in the D.C. of the early 1980s, when crack was killing young adults everywhere, and the motto of the day was simply “Say no.” The Post article quotes an unnamed official as trying to “temper” the “disturbing trend” of heroin overdoses by “by explaining how potent and unpredictable the drug is.”
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