Addicts aren't born as fully formed heroin junkies, they all have a first time when they used an opiate or opioid. If you're living on the street and stealing h

Addicts aren't born as fully formed heroin junkies, they all have a first time when they used an opiate or opioid. If you're living on the street and stealing handbags to buy heroin, you got there through a series of crises, each one an intervention point. Not being able to steal your dad's oxys from the medicine cabinet, or not being put on opioid painkillers for three months straight, are two of those intervention points.