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Opiate addiction isn't related to how wholesome your friends are.

I also don't run in the most wholesome group of friends (at least by traditional standards) and also don't know any opoid users.

However, every time I walk to the supermarket I walk past a park where there's about half a dozen heroin addicts shooting up. They just do it in plain sight. There's also needle deposit boxes in all the public toilets and alleyways. Just the other day I saw a dead addict being wheeled into an ambulance.

Opiate abuse isn't related to how wholesome you are. There are plenty of god-fearing addicts.

Overdose death rates have increased massively over the past 20 years (https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/o...)

It's definitely a growing problem. Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are making it even worse.