Take Jack's story and multiply it by at least a million. That's the cost we're currently paying for it. Throwing a small fraction of those people in jail in ord

Take Jack's story and multiply it by at least a million. That's the cost we're currently paying for it. Throwing a small fraction of those people in jail in order to prevent this epidemic is the humane thing to do. That you'd rather call a real solution to this issue "perverse" and "sadistic" betrays your own cynical view: you really don't care that much about people like Jack. You'd rather grandstand with your smug, politically correct view than actually help people like him. Why was it so easy for Jack, a high school kid in a small town in the Northeast, to get his hand on hard drugs like this? The answer: we stopped having the stomach for being tough on anyone connected with drugs, by throwing them in prison, and creating incentives to strongly discourage its use. We don't hesitate to jail people for decades when we find them with illegal explosives or plans to commit acts of terrorism. If those people are successful, at most they kill hundreds of people. The use and distribution of drugs does much more damage and impacts millions in a massively negative way.