The line from the parent is: >Smart strategy can make things easier, but there is no strategy that makes it easier to stop heroin than do to keep it. You then

The line from the parent is: >Smart strategy can make things easier, but there is no strategy that makes it easier to stop heroin than do to keep it. You then say: >Want to stop taking heroin? Stop surrounding yourself with people who take heroin. See a medical professional. Get away from wherever you get the heroin. Try to get your life in order so you have other things to look forward to. Those things are all a complex sequence of tasks that requires a huge amount of planning, logistics, task initiation, etc etc. Not to mention money, uncertainty, fear etc. They are literally orders of magnitude more difficult for a person to do than continuing to take heroin. It'd be like if I told you, "want to stop being hungry for breakfast in the morning? Just go change your whole life instead of eating a bagel."