Heroin is not the epidemic. Opioids are the epidemic. They have been for over a decade. It seems that people care more when their kids are buying it on a street corner than they do when they're getting it out of their medicine cabinet or a "pain clinic".
Or the local ER. You are SO right on this. And the government is first and foremost complicit in it. They have set up the system so that millions and millions of Americans can go to the ER, as many times as they want, free of charge (to them). And the reimbursement system, from the government, is now (with ObamaCare) based upon patient satisfaction. The CEO's of the hospital 'want' that government money first and foremost...no matter what...so they 'strongly encourage' the ER docs to make those patients happy, by whatever means necessary, so those patients will give the hospital good marks on the surveys.
