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Heroin is not a fun thing, but it being illegal is about as damaging as the addiction is in the first place.
Much consensus agrees with this statement. Lots of social experiments to support it too. Seeing something as an illness/problem as opposed to outright criminal, has quite a lot of positive ramifications.
That's something I never got. People who have such stonewalled views in relations to drugs, but so very little experience regarding any aspect of it.
Chak
Well, a family member used to be heavily addicted to heroine (now clean, thankfully). A good part of the 'destroyed family' etc. thing was down to the criminality necessary to fund the addiction, and it being more difficult and a higher hurdle to be open about it / get help. As the whole thing is illegal, and therefore expensive, and therefore fuelling criminal endeavours which means people tend to keep the lowest profile possible as the police would very much like to nab them.
Heroin is not a fun thing, but it being illegal is about as damaging as the addiction is in the first place.