What's weird is... cocaine can kill you, no OD necessary. Alcohol will kill you. Smoking national brand cigarettes will definitely kill you. Opiates generally d

What's weird is... cocaine can kill you, no OD necessary. Alcohol will kill you. Smoking national brand cigarettes will definitely kill you. Opiates generally don't kill you. Notorious addict and writer William S. Burroughs lived to 83, and died of a heart attack. His death had nothing to do with using heroin for 60 years or however long. What hurts opiate addicts is the lifestyle, not the drug. But if they have a job and a stable economy, there is no health effect. What kills opiate addicts is two things. 1) The user quits, then maybe after a year of being clean, to celebrate perhaps, they take their regular dose again, and their tolerance has dropped to nothing, and they accidentally overdose. I believe this is how Sublime's Bradley Nowell died, and possibly Tom Petty. 2) Evil, sociopathic dealers that spike their heroin with fentanyl, likely aware they will kill someone, because they think it is good advertising, letting everyone know their stuff is strong. I believe this is how we lost Philip Seymour Hoffman, and many many others. So even beyond the obvious detail, that Naloxone saves lives, I don't understand what life insurance companies have against opiate addicts, and more so than smokers and drinkers? That makes no sense.