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by stickfigure 2054 days ago
"People who try heroin" is not a random sample. It's hard to draw significant information from that, even if the survey is accurate.

A better comparison, assuming legal pharmaceuticals, would be: What percentage of people who try Oxycontin become addicted?

I don't know that number, but I suspect it is relatively low.