This article is not quantitative or scientific, although I am certain there is some validity to it's claims. Any same person would agree that trying to take the

This article is not quantitative or scientific, although I am certain there is some validity to it's claims. Any same person would agree that trying to take these drugs away from addicts will only push them to heroin. However to become addicted one must try a substance, and or medical system has allowed far too many opiates to be sold and facilitated far too many first experiences. To the tune of 4x the number of prescriptions which should exist given US epidemiology. The interesting question is how you could show rigorously that this type of safety net is effective.