10-27-2017, 11:26 AM
(10-27-2017, 11:02 AM)BigMark Wrote: Heroin is way cheaper than pills.
That may be true. But, the huge spike in heroin use over the last several years is not primarily due to the fact that heroin is cheaper than pills, as I understand it.
A lot of patients who were addicted to doctor-perscribed opioids were only paying low co-pays for the prescriptions anyway. The health insurance companies or Medicaid was paying the bulk.
When the patients finally got cut off from continually refilling those prescriptions, they turned to heroin for a similar high.