On August 20th the San Diego Union Tribune had an editorial about the increase in the abuse of heroin. The alert was raised by using data provided by the US DEA and the San Diego County Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force. They claim that more people are using pain killers than ever before. These organizations, of course want to defend and probably increase their budgets, so their claims could be viewed with some skepticism. I would prefer there be some sort of independent organization gather and provide those statistics. I do know from the US demographics that there are a huge number of people getting to the age where they have more aches and pains, and chronic diseases that require more pain medication to control it. I didn't see any mention of that fact. All opiate medications are very carefully controlled, inventoried and tracked. If there are "leaks" in the system, the DEA certainly has the power to tighten up the tracking of those medicines.
On the other hand, what I predicted many years ago, has now happened. Rachel Feltman of the Washington Post reported that scientists can now synthesize heroin using yeast and sugar. So, theoretically, citizens could make heroin, (and in the future maybe cocaine, or THC) at home for their own use? I'm sure that the anti-drug industrial complex will do their best to stop people from being able to do that!
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